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"I have seen the worst of what man can do": Beijing Resident James Ouyang Told the Washington Post after 20 Days of Brainwashing Sessions

Dr. Lee's fiancée, Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo, and others held a press conference yesterday in front of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco upon receiving the news that Dr. Lee is being forced to undergo daily brainwashing sessions.

According to what Dr. Lee told the U.S. Consulate official, he is visited every day by a top Communist Party official who tries to "transform" him. Authorities at the prison are also pressuring him through his family and, for the past month, have been forcefully taking him to long hours of brainwashing classes.

What are "brainwashing" classes?

Throughout his incarceration, many concerned parties around the world have expressed deep concern for Dr. Lee's well-being, fearing he would be beaten or physically tortured like countless other Falun Gong practitioners who are held in China's extensive labor camp system.

The true horror of what Dr. Lee and all Falun Gong practitioners in China face, however, is perhaps not solely the beatings and physical torture, but rather, a sinister collection of techniques and methods aimed at breaking the will and dissolving the spirit of a person. These methods are employed until the victim either loses his mental faculties or submits to the ideology of the oppressors so he or she can be used to "transform" or "re-educate" others.

Consider the case of Mr. James Ouyang, reported by the Washington Post in 2001:

At a police station in western Beijing, Ouyang was stripped and interrogated for five hours. "If I responded incorrectly, that is if I didn't say, 'Yes,' they shocked me with the electric truncheon," he said.

Then, he was transferred to a labor camp in Beijing's western suburbs. There, the guards ordered him to stand facing a wall. If he moved, they shocked him. If he fell down from fatigue, they shocked him.

Each morning, he had five minutes to eat and relieve himself. "If I didn't make it, I went in my pants," he said. "And they shocked me for that, too."

By the sixth day, Ouyang said, he couldn't see straight from staring at plaster three inches from his face. His knees buckled, prompting more shocks and beatings. He gave in to the guards' demands.

For the next three days, Ouyang denounced [Falun Gong's] teachings, shouting into the wall. Officers continued to shock him about the body and he soiled himself regularly. Finally, on the 10th day, Ouyang's repudiation of the group was deemed sufficiently sincere.

He was taken before a group of Falun Gong inmates and rejected the group one more time as a video camera rolled. Ouyang left jail and entered the brainwashing classes. Twenty days later after debating Falun Gong for 16 hours a day, he "graduated."

"The pressure on me was and is incredible," he said. "In the past two years, I have seen the worst of what man can do. We really are the worst animals on Earth."

Mr. Ouyang's case is similar to thousands of cases that the Falun Dafa Information Center has received over the last four years about practitioners who have been sent to brainwashing classes.

The Madness in The Method

This brainwashing may seem difficult to understand for Western readers, but it is a method that has been utilized and repeatedly refined in the successive, tumultuous political campaigns that have swept through China over the past fifty years since the Communist Party took power. It is a method of breaking a person's will and usurping the entirety of his or her ideals, replacing them with the Party line.

Today, this refined method of destroying the will and spirit is one of the primary ways in which the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin aims to "eradicate Falun Gong." Among the methods reportedly used on Falun Gong practitioners in brainwashing sessions are:

• Severe sleep deprivation, starvation and little or no access to bathroom facilities for days or even weeks.
• Being hung by the wrists or all four limbs from the ceiling and receiving electric shocks to the body, including to the genitalia and head for prolonged periods.
• Sharpened bamboo sticks pierced through the finger tips and then prying up the finger nails.
• Being forced to watch videos that demonize the teachings of Falun Gong, and in which a variety of logical and rhetorical tricks are used to try to convince one how "stupid" he or she is for practicing Falun Gong, and that the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" is evil. If the person diverts their eyes from the screen, they are severely beaten or shocked.
• Having immediate family members -- often scared and crying due to threats from authorities -- are forced to plead with those held in the brainwashing sessions to give up their beliefs.
• Being fired from one's job, ridiculed in local newspapers, and told that the only way one will get out without giving up one's belief is if one dies in the prison camp.

These techniques and variations of them are corroborated by countless eye-witness testimonies the Falun Dafa Information Center has received over the past four years.

Right now, Dr. Charles Lee -- a U.S. citizen, holding a U.S. passport -- is alone in a Chinese jail with the full might of the Chinese regime weighing down on him to break his will. It is possible that his U.S. citizenship will allow him to escape severe physical torture, but the intent of the brainwashing classes he is forced to attend is the same, and the techniques utilized can be just as sinister.

It is clear that his captors want to make an example out of Dr. Lee; that is, transform him into a tool they can use to further demonize Falun Gong, and thereby advance Jiang Zemin's cause to "eradicate Falun Gong."

The international community cannot and must not condone such treatment, under the name of brainwashing or any other euphemism or excuse. It is a grotesque violation of human rights and is the very antithesis of freedom of belief.

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PRESS STATEMENT - Nov. 14, 2003
Falun Dafa Information Center, www.faluninfo.net

Background

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about), is a practice of meditation and exercises with teachings based on the universal principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." It is a practice that was taught in private for thousands of years before being made public in 1992 by Mr. Li Hongzhi. Falun Gong has roots in traditional Chinese culture, but it is distinct and separate from other practices such as the religions of Buddhism and Taoism. Since its introduction in 1992, it quickly spread by word of mouth throughout China, and is now practiced in over 50 countries.

With government estimates of as many as 100 million practicing Falun Gong, China's Communist leader Jiang Zemin outlawed the peaceful practice in July 1999 (report), fearful of anything touching the hearts and minds of more citizens than the Communist Party. Unable to crush the spirit of millions who had experienced improved health and positive life changes from Falun Gong, Jiang's regime has intensified its propaganda campaign to turn public opinion against the practice while quietly imprisoning, torturing and even murdering those who practice it. To that end, Jiang established the "6-10 Office," a Gestapo-like agency spanning from the Central Government to the local governments. The United States Congress has described the "6-10 Office" as an agency charged with "overseeing the persecution of Falun Gong members through organized brainwashing, torture, and murder." (news)

The Falun Dafa Information Center has verified details of 817 deaths (reports / sources) since the persecution of Falun Gong in China began in 1999. In October 2001, however, Government officials inside China reported that the actual death toll was well over 1,600. Expert sources now estimate that figure to be much higher. Hundreds of thousands have been detained, with more than 100,000 being sentenced to forced labor camps, typically without trial.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER
Contacts: Gail Rachlin (+1 917-501-4441), Levi Browde (+1 914-720-0963), Erping Zhang (+1 646-533-6147), or Feng Yuan (+1 917-941-1097).
Fax: 646-792-3916 Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

(Clearwisdom.net) A barrister and solicitor (Editor's Note: "barrister and solicitor" are terms used in the UK to describe a lawyer, as the term "attorney" is used in the USA) has been retained to prepare a lawsuit in the UK courts against Jiang for his crimes of genocide in persecuting Falun Gong. Ground work for the case is now underway.

Many other barristers have responded to practitioners' truth clarification efforts, and written letters showing their interest and support in the case. Some provide very useful and helpful advice and suggestions with regard to undertaking a lawsuit against Jiang. Some wrote to say they were shocked to learn that Jiang has been so cruelly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners and to wish us success in the case.

One barrister said in his letter: "Thank you for your recent letter detailing the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the former Chinese premier Jiang Zemin. The hardships you referred to are matters of which I was aware, but unfortunately somehow under-informed and I was therefore shocked by the scale of the persecution it appears you have been subjected to."

Bringing Jiang to justice is a natural part of the Fa rectification. It is every practitioner's concern. Accordingly, our mentality and the notions we carry with respect to the situation are crucial. Everything in this old universe is deformed and decayed. Dafa disciples are rectifying the Fa. So we should be clear we are not relying on any ordinary peoples' organizations and laws to rectify the Fa. Therefore, it is believed that the core issues about which we should share our understandings are: how to clarify the truth thoroughly and systematically, and how to improve as a whole body.

UK Dafa Disciples

Nov 13, 2003 TAIPEI, Taiwan

Six Taiwanese Falun Gong followers plan to file a lawsuit in Taiwan accusing former Chinese President Jiang Zemin of persecuting them and aiming to wipe out the popular spiritual movement in China, a member said on Thursday.

The Taiwanese had been detained when traveling in China during the past two years, and they plan to file the lawsuit in Taiwan's High Court on Monday, citing a Taiwanese law for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, said Chu Wan-chi, a spokeswoman of Falun Gong's Taiwan branch.

"They were victims of China's genocidal act that attempts to wipe out part or all of the spiritual group," Chu told The Associated Press.

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The former Chinese leader would likely ignore a subpoena to appear in court. But filing the lawsuit would still highlight the brutality of the crackdown on Falun Gong, Chu said.

Over the past two years, Falun Gong followers around the world have filed at least a dozen lawsuits in foreign courts against Jiang and other Chinese officials they accuse of rights abuses. As head of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang was responsible for the crackdown, they alleged.

Taiwanese have frequently rendered support to Falun Gong practitioners in China. Beijing has barred many Falun Gong followers from the mainland and has accused Taiwanese [...] of breaking into TV broadcasts on the mainland earlier this year.

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Falun Gong alleges the Chinese government has detained and mistreated thousands of followers and killed hundreds through torture or abuse. [...]

(Clearwisdom.net) Wu Guanzheng is a current member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Central Party Committee (CPC) and the former Secretary of Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. He personally arranged for and participated in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners during his term as provincial secretary. On Monday, October 27, 2003, while Wu was visiting Cyprus, Cypriot human rights lawyer Laris Vrahimis, who represents victimized Falun Gong practitioners, filed a lawsuit against Wu Guanzheng for the crimes of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity.

An article titled "How One Chinese City Resorted To Atrocities to Control Falun Dafa" published on December 2000 in an issue of The Wall Street Journal states: "Since the beginning of the year, when police killed a 58-year-old retiree, at least ten more Weifang residents have died in police custody, according to relatives and a human-rights monitoring group. Across this country of 1.3 billion, at least 77 Falun Dafa adherents have now died in detention [Editor's Note: the number of practitioners confirmed dead from abuse in police custody now exceeds 800.] according to reports by human-rights groups. Weifang, which has less than 1% of the national population, accounts for 15% of those deaths."

In the past four years, Wu Guanzheng carried out Jiang's policy of "ruin Falun Gong practitioners' reputations, devastate them financially and destroy them physically." During his term as the secretary for the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party he ordered, "keep high political alertness," and "place emphasis on the prevention and cracking down on Falun Gong." He personally took part in the persecution and is directly responsible for the torture and murder of nearly 100 Falun Gong practitioners.

1. Qilu Evening News incident

In mid-June 1998, the largest circulation newspaper in Shandong Province, Qilu Evening News, published an article that attacked Falun Gong. On June 22, about 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners in Jinan City went to calmly and peacefully clarify the truth to the editors and staff at the Qilu Evening News agency. After they learned the truth, the persons in charge at the news agency promised to use a whole page to clarify the truth and positively introduce Dafa to the society for the next day's copy of the paper. After Wu Guanzheng learned this, he ordered that no such thing was allowed to happen. Under high pressure from the provincial government, the next day the Qilu Evening News only published a tiny article a few dozen words long in an obscure corner of the paper, which was merely a symbolic gesture, not a retraction, admitting the previous report was wrong.

2. Follow Central Government Policy - Annihilate Falun Gong in Shandong Province

Ian Johnson, the Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote the abovementioned article, went on to say, "The government's '610 Office,' a bureau that was coordinating the crackdown, issued an order in December 1999, telling local government officials they would be held personally responsible if they didn't stem the flow of protesters going to Beijing, according to Weifang officials. As in years past, no questions would be asked about how this was achieved - success was all that mattered."

Many people in Weifang City benefited from the practice of Falun Dafa. They know that Falun Dafa was suffering gross injustice, so many of them stepped forward and appealed for justice for Falun Dafa. The Appeals Office in Beijing at that time was in direct coordination with the police department, and people who appealed for Falun Gong were directly arrested and detained. The Appeals Office was therefore nicknamed the "Arrest Office." The number of people arrested for appealing who came from Weifang City rose continuously. Wu Guanzheng tried to keep in line with Jiang Zemin, so he asserted pressure on the local officials and coerced them to join the persecution.

According to one official from the Weifang city government, "Mr. Wu quickly found ways to transfer the pressure. First, Weifang city officials said that Mr. Wu ensured that every official in the city knew felt the pressure by calling a meeting of the police and government officials, commencing a "study session." There, Jiang Zemin's personal instructions were read out loud as the central government's directive. "The government instructed us to limit the number of protesters or we would 'be held responsible'," said another government official.

3. Personally Implicated in the Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioner Liu Xuguo

On January 29, 2000, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Xuguo, the former Assistant for Zoucheng City, Shandong Province was abducted from home and was sent to Jining City's Labor Camp along with three other practitioners. A female practitioner was sent to Jinan City's Female Labor Camp. They were the first group of Dafa practitioners illegally sentenced to forced labor in Jining City. On January 30, Liu Xuguo and two other practitioners went on a hunger strike. They were required to perform manual labor on the fourth day of the hunger strike. The head of the labor camp and a person named Wang, the head of Jining City's Legal and Judicial Bureau, persuaded, enticed and threatened Liu Xuguo, trying to make him give up the hunger strike. After Liu refused, he was barbarically force-fed.

At noon on February 4, 2000 [New Year's Eve on Chinese lunar calendar], Liu Xuguo was on the brink of death because the force-feeding tube punctured his trachea. He was sent to the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical College. The doctor found Liu Xuguo to be close to death upon arrival and blamed the police for delayed action, and didn't want to admit him. In the evening, Liu Xuguo's wife arrived and saw that he was skin and bones, his lips were black and blue. Liu was constantly overseen by guards from the Jining Labor Camp while he was in the hospital. The Supreme Court in Beijing said if emergency treatment wouldn't revive him, then no one would be held responsible for his death.

Around 11:00 a.m. on February 10, 2000, the hospital officials suddenly announced Liu's death and immediately sent his body to the morgue without his family's consent.

Liu Xuguo once wrote a protest letter asking for unconditional release. The draft of the protest letter at one time circulated among a small group of practitioners and the letter's whereabouts are unknown. Wang, the head of Legal Bureau said, "This issue [Liu Xuguo and other practitioners who were sent to forced labor] was the direct order from Provincial Party Secretary Wu Guanzheng. We cannot do anything about it.

4. Personal Visits to the Jinan Female Labor Camp Lead to Intensified Persecution

In 2000, Wu Guanzheng went to the Jinan Female Labor Camp numerous times, with the result that the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners at the labor camp began to escalate.

Around 7:00 p.m. on October 27, 2000, with orders from superiors, authorities in the Jinan Female Labor Camp tortured around 100 Falun Gong practitioners detained at Division Five with violent actions, as described in the following account:

In the evening, police cars surrounded the building where the practitioners were held. Fully armed police officers stood around the building. About two dozen police officers, led by Niu Xuelian, head of Division Five, all of whom were drunk at the time, ran into the hallway and started shocking the practitioners with electric batons. They removed a dozen practitioners to further torment them, forcing them to squat and stand. They handcuffed the practitioners to increase the abuse and deprived them of their personal freedom. A 55-year-old practitioner named Tang Shuying was handcuffed for seven weeks because she persisted in Dafa practice. Her legs and feet were severely swollen.

The practitioners held a hunger strike to protest the violent persecution. The guards force-fed the practitioners. Guard Niu Xuelian shocked any practitioners who did the Dafa exercise with electric batons, for instance practitioners Liang Fang, Lin Yuqing and Xu Lianyun were shocked numerous times with electric batons. This cruel Niu Xuelian tied practitioner Ms. Qu Jinping to a barber chair and gagged her for two days. Guard Sun Juan savagely beat practitioner Chi Mingxiang. Guard Sun grabbed Ms. Chi Mingxiang by her hair while violently slapping her face more than 30 times. Practitioner Sun Mingxiang was not allowed to sleep for three days and three nights because she refused to give up Dafa cultivation.

According to an October 8th report on Minghui Net, in the year when Wu Guanzheng frequently "inspected" Division Five of the Jinan Female Labor Camp, three practitioners suffered mental breakdowns from this ruthless, diabolic torture.

5. Giving Speeches to Deceive the Public

From August 9th to August 23, 2001, related departments held an exhibit to defame Falun Dafa at Shandong Province's Museum. Orders were sent to different work units and quotas were given, requiring a certain number of people to attend the exhibit. Provincial and city government heads Wu Guanzheng, Zhao Zhihao, Sun Shuyi and others also went to the exhibit and gave speeches to slander Dafa and deceive the people.

From 1999 to late August 2003, among the more than 770 Falun Gong practitioners who were tortured to death throughout China, 30 deaths were verified to have taken place in Weifang City. ["Verified" means their names and story have been reported by the international media and third-party media]. As far as city-level government, the number of deaths in Weifang City is the highest in all of China. More Falun Gong practitioners in Weifang City than anywhere else were illegally fined, their homes ransacked and were sent to forced labor camps and prisons.

The April 20, 2000 issue of The Wall Street Journal reported the torture death of a Falun Gong practitioner in Weifang City at the hands of local government officials: "The day before Chen Zixiu died, her captors again demanded that she renounce her faith in Falun Dafa. Barely conscious after repeated jolts from a cattle prod, the 58-year-old stubbornly shook her head. Enraged, the local officials ordered Ms. Chen to run barefoot in the snow. Two days of torture had left her legs bruised and her short black hair matted with pus and blood, said cellmates and other prisoners who witnessed the incident. She
crawled outside, vomited and collapsed. She never regained consciousness
and died on Feb. 21^st, 2000." This report shocked the world and journalist Ian Johnson, the author of the report was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this report.

With the provincial government's policy of "capitalize on preventing and striking on Falun Gong," the police and labor camp authorities in Weifang City have diabolically and ruthlessly tortured Falun Gong practitioners during the past four years. They use more than 40 tortures methods including shocking practitioners with many electric batons for a long time. Sometimes they put the baton in the practitioner's mouth, or on their breasts or chest, under the armpits and private areas. At night, the perpetrators turn off the lights and pull off female practitioners' pants to sexually assault them. This occurred in Shouguang Town and Taitou Town, Shouguang City, and Mucun Town in the Fangzi District.

The barbarians used various handcuffs and back cuffs, tying practitioners to the "death bed" [The four limbs of the practitioner are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all. Neither is he allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This treatment would last from several hours up to more than a week. This type of cruel torture severely damages the practitioner, both mentally and physically]. They hang practitioners from doors and windows and shackle them, they tie up the practitioners with rough ropes until the practitioners' skin atrophied and had they had to receive skin graft (this occurred in Anqiu City and Shouguang City).

They slap practitioners' faces, hit them with their fists and kick them. They beat the practitioners with rubber police batons, wooden sticks, metal planks, steel rods, and other metal sticks, and they whip the practitioners with whips made of twisted copper wire and electric wire. All of this occurred in Weicheng District and Changle County.

They nip the practitioners' flesh with pliers and poke screwdrivers into the practitioners' body (Fangzi District).

They drive staples into the practitioners' fingers (Weicheng District).

They drive bamboo sticks under the practitioners' nail bed and even pry off all ten fingernails (Qingzhou City, Shouguang City).

They burn the practitioners with cigarette lighters and cigarette butts (Anqiu City, Gaomi City).

They pour boiling water on the practitioners' back until it blisters (Changle County).

They force the practitioners to kneel on broken pieces of pottery (Fangzi District).

In the scorching heat of summer, the perpetrators force the practitioners to stand on cement ground while they put plastic bags around the practitioner to suffocate him (Linqu County).

They lock up practitioners in solitary confinement and force them to sit on very narrow, low metal stools. They torture the practitioners with force-feeding (note: they feed practitioners highly concentrated saline solution through ordinary plastic tubes at Fangzi District Detention Center).

At the Nanyuan Street Office and Zhucheng Foreign Grade Corporation, the perpetrators force-feed practitioners with feces and urine. At Changle Labor Camp, they submerge the practitioners' head in water. In the winter, they strip the practitioners of all their clothes and put them outside to freeze. The authorities don't allow the practitioners to go to the restroom and forbid them to sleep for many days.

They inject the practitioners with lots of drugs that damage the central nervous system (this occurs at Changle Mental Hospital, Changle Labor Camp and Shouguang City).

They use ultra-high voltage electric needles to torture the practitioners at the Changle Mental Hospital.

At Changyi City and Shouguang City, government officials from Weifang City even parade the practitioners through the streets and put them in mountain caves. They seal the doors to practitioners' homes and persecute these practitioners' family and other relatives.

According to a media report, on May 18, 2001 the Shandong Police System held a secret meeting in Weifang City to solidify their plan to conduct a large-scale arrest of Falun Gong practitioners in eight provinces and cities, including Beijing and Shandong Province. Soon after, in early June, the Shouguang Tragedy took place.

"The officials' brutality toward Ms. Chen seemed exceptional at the time. Torture in China is common, but even Ms. Chen's family thought that her death was an aberration, the result of an especially cruel jailer. Since then, however, Falun Dafa practitioners have died regularly in Weifang's prisons, about one a month, casting doubt on the idea that one person is responsible. Instead, it appears that the violence is systemic, stemming from policies adopted in Beijing and implemented locally." (from the abovementioned Wall Street Journal story by Ian Johnson)

According to a report on Minghui, in the morning of June 4, 2001, the police in Shouguang City, Weifang City, Shandong Province arrested a dozen Falun Gong practitioners in Majia Village, Sunjiaji Town. Within two days, two of the arrested practitioners were beaten to death. One of them was 60-year-old Ms. Wang Lanxiang from Majia Village, Sunjiaji Town. The other one was the 37-year-old Ms. Li Yinping, an employee for the Weifang City Husbandry [farm] Bureau. These two deaths raised the number of Falun Gong practitioners who were beaten to death to 22 in the 22 months since July 1999.

On June 4th, the police ignored the people's accusations as they stripped off the practitioners' clothes and savagely beat them in the street. Then, they took the practitioners to the Sunji Police Station and forced them to stand in the scorching heat for one day while the practitioners were handcuffed and were not allowed to talk. The practitioners were illegally interrogated one by one, and if they refused to cooperate, they were barbarically beaten. In the evening, all of the arrested practitioners were sent to Shouguang City's Detention Center without any due legal process.

In the afternoon of June 6, the practitioners told the authorities they were illegally arrested and asked for release. The police officers dragged them out into the hallway and beat them with rubber clubs. They tied up six practitioners to metal chairs that are specialized torture tools. In the evening, the division head and Wang, the head of detention center, drank alcohol to fortify their "courage" before they led another round of fiendish torture of these six practitioners.

This is how it happened: Five to six perpetrators surrounded each practitioner. First they slapped the practitioner's face, then they twisted his or her arms behind the back; some yanked the practitioner's hair and they took turns beating the practitioner's body and legs with rubber clubs. They verbally abused the practitioners throughout the whole time. The rubber clubs broke three times from the violent use and the metal core fell out. They replaced it with a new a rubber club and resumed beating. At the same time they shocked the practitioners with high voltage electric batons. When the practitioners fainted from the beating, they poured cold water on them and resumed beating when he or she came to. This savage torture lasted four hours.

A female practitioner in her 30's was stripped of all her clothes and beaten until her whole body was black and blue. She fainted several times and the perpetrators poured cold water on her. Then they shocked her with electric batons. Her heart-wrenching scream shocked the whole detention center. Even so, they refused to stop. One of them said, "We'll take you inside and gang-rape you till you die!" This practitioner began vomiting blood right then and there, but the police continued to beat and shock her. After they became exhausted they said they would do it again the next day.

The practitioners were locked onto metal chairs for a whole evening. The female practitioner who was most severely tortured kept vomiting until she finally fell unconscious. At around 5:00 a.m. her pulse could not be detected. The detention center authorities said, "She won't die! Don't worry about it." Later, they saw she was indeed dying, so they sent her to Shouguang People's Hospital for emergency treatment, sending plainclothes police to monitor her. This practitioner was still in critical condition in the afternoon of June 7th. Her condition is not known at this point. At the same time, the detention center concocted fake evidence and ordered inmates to say that she threw up blood before she was beaten at the detention center. They recorded the made-up "evidence" to evade responsibility.

Another practitioner in her 60s was stripped of all her clothes and beaten until she became unconscious. She lost control of her bladder and fell into a coma. The police sent her to a hospital. In the afternoon, they sent two other practitioners who were also in critical condition to Shouguang People's Hospital.

Observers think that the torture deaths in Shouguang City have to do with a secret meeting held by the Shandong Police System in Weifang City. The purpose of the meeting was to solidify the plan to arrest Falun Gong practitioners in eight major provinces. Wu Guanzheng, the secretary for the Shandong Party Committee cannot shirk his responsibilities.

From 1999 to 2002, when Wu Guanzheng was the secretary of Shandong Provincial committee of Communist Party, Shandong Province had the reputation of carrying out the most vicious and deadly persecution against Falun Gong practitioners with the leading number deaths resulting from torture. According to statistics, in the four years and three months (51 months) from July 1999 to October 2003, Shandong Province is responsible for 93 Falun Gong practitioners' torture deaths. The practitioners who were tortured to death include elderly people in their 70's, and infants less than eight months old.

The first publicized torture case took place in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province. On Sept. 27, 1999, Ms. Zhao Jinhua, a resident of Zhaojia Village, Zhangxing County, Zhaoyuan City was abducted by persons from the Zhangxing County police when she was working in the farm fields. The officers started to torture her with police electric clubs and rubber clubs, and electrocuting her with old-style rotary telephones. They tortured her while forcing her to stand on cement. The right side of her body hurt terribly and it became numb. She had blood in her urine and her legs hurt. She could not eat and her body was black and blue from the waist on down. Her face was yellow and she collapsed to the ground. The villagers said, "Zhao Jinhua was known as a very good person."

After Ms. Zhao Jinhua died from savage torture, the police not only didn't pursue the murderers, they severely muzzled people who delivered the news of Ms. Zhao's death to the outside. Ten Falun Gong practitioners in Zhaoyuan City were arrested as a result. Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Li Lanying, Ms. Chi Yunling and Ms. Chen Shihuan, among others, were held under criminal detention. The police claim they are guilty of "illegally providing information to foreign sources." These good people face heavy prison sentences.

On June 18, 2000, Reuters reported the story of Su Gang, a young computer engineer in Zibo City, Shandong Province, who died from repeated drug injections because he practiced Falun Gong. The report states,

"Su Gang, a 32-year-old computer engineer in Zibo City in eastern Shandong Province was arrested after petitioning in Beijing this year on behalf of the [Dafa] movement. Police took Su to the hospital on May 23, though he showed no signs of mental disorder. He was given daily shots of a drug that attacks the central nervous system, the Information Center said in a statement. Su was released on May 31 after his family staged a protest hunger strike, the statement said. Su was healthy when he was taken away, but on his return was stiff, slow, weak and refused to eat, the group quoted his father Su De'an as saying. He died on June 10."

After Su Gang died, the police tailed his family. On June 14, Su Gang's father Su De'an and his uncle Su Lianxi were stopped by dozens of people when they tried to deliver a public letter to the heads of the Qilu Oil Chemical Company. They were sent to a police department and were illegally interrogated. The police kept their residence under 24-hour surveillance. Su Gang's family could not report his death to related government agencies.

"The effects of such systematic brutality on society is difficult to gauge. None of these deaths have been reported in the Chinese media. Only those directly touched by the crackdown know of its scope and ferocity" (The Wall Street Journal, "How One Chinese City Resorted To Atrocities to Control Falun Dafa"�j.

Reported by Minghui journalist Gu Anru

On November 4, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net) At noon, November 13, Falun Gong practitioners in the San Francisco Bay area held a press conference in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to expose the Jiang regime's escalating persecution against Charles Li, a Falun Gong practitioner and U.S. citizen who has been illegally imprisoned in China since last January. Practitioners have heard that the Jiang regime has forced Charles Li to attend brainwashing sessions 3 hours per day and is attempting to force him to admit that his righteous act was a crime. Practitioners thus strongly demand that the Jiang regime immediately release Charles Li unconditionally and end the persecution against all Falun Gong practitioners.

In front of Chinese Consulate	Interviewing Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo

Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo, Charles Li' s fiancée, also attended the press conference. She said: "From a conversion with Charles Li on November 5, the American Consulate official in Shanghai, China has learned that Charles Li has been forcefully dragged to brainwashing sessions and forced to stay there for 3 hours a day over the past one month. Furthermore, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security has sent an official named Gong Shao to talk with Charles Li and try to force him to admit guilt. Shao also threatened that Charles would be in trouble if Charles refused to meet with him."

Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo also said, "Charles' several request to see U.S. consulate officials were all rejected by the prison officials. They dispatched 6 inmates to his cell to monitor him around the clock and prevent him from practicing Falun Gong. These prisoners are drug abusers and/or criminals. Charles has been clarifying the truth to them, and some later found their conscience and no longer mistreated Charles. The prison officials thus replace them frequently with new inmates to monitor Charles Li. The Chinese communist regime has also pressured Charles Li's brother, wanting to know who is rescuing Charles Li in the U.S."

Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo said, "The purpose of the brainwashing is to torture him mentally and force him to give up Falun Gong practice and belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Even a U.S. citizen has been tortured in such a way; it is beyond imagination how the Chinese government treats its own citizens."

Falun Gong spokeswoman Sherry Zhang said, "Brainwashing is a means of mental torture. In appearance, the person suffering from brainwashing doesn't have any cuts and bruises, however, forcing a person to give up his belief is equivalent to forcing him to give up his conscience and himself. The person consequently loses his own dignity. He would not be himself any more. He would feel that he would rather die. Therefore, brainwashing is a torture no less than other physical torture methods."

"Freedom of speech and belief is the fundamental and most precious value of mankind. We call on people from all walks of life to speak out to stop the Chinese regime's persecution of fundamental human rights." In her speech addressing the issue of the Chinese regime's persecution against Falun Gong practitioners, holocaust survivor Lisa Raphael said, "We must not stay blind this time. We must not kid ourselves into thinking that what happens elsewhere in the world is not our business. I urge each of you to do whatever you can to protest the actions of the Chinese government towards practitioners of Falun Gong. One voice CAN count. Several voices together CAN make a difference. "

(Clearwisdom.net) Upon hearing that U.S. citizen Charles Li has been subjected to another round of intense brainwashing torture, the U.S. Rescue Team urgently informed media and government officials that the National Security Bureau of China has been persecuting Charles Li in an attempt to fool the international media by trying to force Charles Li to give up his belief in Falun Gong.

The annual Thanksgiving holiday is coming, which is a day that American families traditionally have a reunion. A U.S. Rescue Team is now launching a signature campaign to rescue Charles Li. The campaign materials are prepared for U.S. government officials, media and the public. The main purposes of this campaign are to inform people of the plight of Charles Li in China, to expose the severe abuse of human rights and the violation of freedom of belief against millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China, and to call on more kind-hearted people in Western society to help rescue Charles back to the U.S. safely.

7.11.2003 URGENT APPEALS

Cheng Jun Liu is a Falun Gong practitioner. He was arrested in 1999 while he was lodging a complaint against the prohibition of this movement. He was sent to a labour camp. After he was set free in October 2001, a new protest on his part led to his second arrest.

Finally, on 24 March 2002, Cheng Jun Liu was again brutally arrested by the police. State employees beat his cousin until he divulged, under torture, Cheng's hiding place. They then set fire to the woodpile where the latter was hiding and made him come out. Although he was already tied hand and foot they shot him twice in his thighs. After undergoing more ill treatment in a police hospital, Cheng Liu was transferred to a detention centre at Tiebei, where he was tortured continuously for 52 days with the aim of extracting a "confession" from him. He was then condemned to 19 years' imprisonment and incarcerated in Jilin prison. In this prison, apparently, about 100 detainees are on hunger strike to protest the constant torture inflicted upon them by the prison guards.

On 21 October 2003, the Cheng family was informed that he had been hospitalized. His life was hanging by a thread. His relatives observed wounds all over his body; he no longer recognized all his family members and kept losing consciousness.

On 27 October 2003, Cheng Jun Liu was taken to the notorious police hospital of Jilin province, Changchun. This establishment is well known for its ill treatment of Falun Gong practitioners.

By our petition, we hereby ask the Director of Public Security of Jilin province to conduct inquiries into the conditions prevailing at Jilin prison and Changchun hospital and to take the necessary measures to protect fully the detainees against acts of torture inflicted by the prison officers. We also ask that those responsible for acts of torture be brought before the courts. Finally, we require that Cheng Jun Liu receive the necessary treatment.

(Clearwisdom.net)

On Saturday, 1 November 2003, Falun Gong practitioners from around southeast Queensland held activities to inform the public of the severe situation Mr Cheng Lun Liu faces after being nearly tortured to death at Jilin Prison and the resultant hunger strike by up to 100 other Falun Gong practitioners serving terms at Jilin Prison. These practitioners have done nothing wrong or illegal -- they have been given long-term prison sentences simply for practising Falun Gong and living by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.

During November, practitioners have permission to use King George Square in front of Brisbane's Town Hall every Saturday. We thus took this opportunity to hand out flyers about Mr Liu's situation and the situation of other practitioners at Jilin Prison. Information tables were set up along with many photos, poster boards and banners telling of the persecution of Falun Gong in China. We also collected many signatures on a petition asking the Australian Government to speak out about the family members of Australian relatives that are still being held in labour camps and whose lives are in jeopardy.

Several Chinese practitioners held a mock trial of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin to let the visiting Chinese tourists know of Jiang's crimes against Falun Gong and that many lawsuits around the world have already been filed charging Jiang with genocide and crimes against humanity. Many Mainland Chinese tourists come to King George Square to see Town Hall and this day saw numerous groups come through. Although some are still deluded by the propaganda, more and more realise the truth and take handouts or say Falun Dafa Hao (Falun Dafa is good).

There were also many posters and pictures about the practice of Falun Gong around the world and practitioners did exercise demonstrations all morning. This attracted large numbers of people and the Mainland Chinese tourists took photos and movies. A number of Westerners inquired about the practice and the persecution and some learned the exercises on the spot, while others queried where the practice sites were so they could learn later.

From 6pm until 8:15pm, practitioners held a candlelight vigil at the square, as well. Many poster boards, pictures and wreaths with photos of practitioners that have been persecuted to death were laid out on the ground. Banners were hung from a 6x3 metre gazebo and several practitioners handed out a large number of flyers about Mr Cheng's plight. Many signatures were again collected for our petition.

About 50 practitioners took part in the candlelight vigil and the feeling on the square was particularly peaceful and powerful this evening. The practitioners sent righteous thoughts every half hour, and the field was strong and focused. Large numbers of people were drawn by the energy and peacefulness, and showed great concern for the situation Falun Gong practitioners face in China. No one could fathom how such a peaceful practice and such good people can suffer such brutal persecution in China.

(Clearwisdom.net) On Saturday 8th November, Dafa practitioners held a peaceful appeal in front of the Chinese embassy in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland. The practitioners practiced the Falun Gong exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts. People driving past the Chinese Embassy honked their car horns in support of the Falun Dafa appeal.

Many of the practitioners felt that this activity was particularly important after hearing about 100 practitioners imprisoned in a prison in Jilin province, China. They were imprisoned because they practice Falun Gong, in a persecution that is completely ungrounded and immoral. Jiang Zemin's campaign of genocide against Falun Gong is an enormous and systematic attempt to wipe out peoples morality and conscience. Those who want to improve their health and moral standard through practicing Falun Gong are tortured, murdered, raped, brainwashed and beaten. Many of the practitioners imprisoned in Jilin have resorted to a hunger strike as their last means of appeal against this persecution. Some of them are near death after suffering brutal torture from the prison authorities.

Sending righteous thoughts
Exercise practice

http://clearharmony.net/articles/200311/16122.html

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A Guangxi Province Falun Dafa practitioner began practicing in December 1997 and continued to practice openly, even after the persecution began on July 20, 1999. In October 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, where she was arrested. While detained in the Beijing Detention Center, she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. This practitioner was later sent back to a city detention center in Guangxi for one and a half months. Since May 2000, she was illegally detained in Guangxi Female Forced Labor Camp and in a city detention center, during which time she firmly cultivated Falun Dafa and protested the persecution by going on hunger strikes. She experienced a myriad of tribulations and was later able to escape that den of evil with her righteous thoughts. In her own words, the following story details some of the persecution she suffered:

I was once tied to a tree from morning until midnight, every day, continuously for an entire month. When I was tied up, both of my hands were forcibly stretched back to hold the tree, crossed and tied, then hoisted from the tree. [This is a variation on a typical torture method known as "Hung up with Hands Cuffed Behind the Back." With both hands cuffed behind the back, and both feet either off the ground or with only the toes touching, one is hung from a basketball support or house beam by the handcuffs. Both hands and arms soon lose sensory perception, and both hands will eventually go dead from lack of blood circulation.] Some practitioners had obviously fainted from this torture, and yet were said to be "sleeping." As time passed, increasingly more practitioners were tied up in trees, so that the entire small woods and even the poles in the labor section were fully loaded with practitioners. Falun Dafa practitioners' spirit of defying brutal force and their persistence in clarifying the truth pervaded the entire forced labor camp. The prison guards grew fearful that their cruelty would become too well known, so they changed their torture method to tying up the practitioners in rooms, in order to both conceal the crime and to keep practitioners separated from one another. In the beginning, I was tied up for either as long as I had requested to practice the exercises, or for as long as I had already practiced. Later on, however, regardless of whether I even practiced or not, I would be tied up in the evening and not untied until breakfast the next morning.

Immediately after breakfast, I began my day of forced labor. By order of the prison guards, there were other prisoners monitoring me as I worked, to make sure that I stayed awake. They would beat me whenever I closed my eyes. One day, I did not eat my lunch and instead used my lunchtime to close my eyes. For this, I was unexpectedly tied up because they apparently did not want me to be healthy. At that time, I had already been deprived of sleep for many days. It was really hard to resist the sleepy feeling, and I just wanted to close my eyes for awhile, fully realizing that they would probably tie me up to a tree for doing so. The two prisoners that had been monitoring me beat me and pulled me up by my hair. When they tied me, they pulled both of my hands toward the two opposite sides and tightly tied them up. My legs were also tied up. Sometimes, I was tied up and half-hung, so that I could just barely touch the ground with my toes. There was nothing around me on which I could lean and gain any support. It was so painful that I kept sweating and could hardly fall asleep. The prison guards also told the prisoners to tie the ropes tightly, and if any prisoner was found to have secretly loosened the rope, she would be punished by having an extra ten days added to her prison term. I could barely withstand the sleepiness, night after night. No matter how hard the work inspectors or duty personnel pushed me, or how hard the criminal prisoners beat me, I still forced my eyes to close, to sleep for awhile. However, they stretched my hands and legs wider apart and also pulled the rope tighter. It was so painful that there was no way I could close my eyes. If I had not cultivated Falun Dafa, I would have been wondering how many times I could possibly die. Every morning when the rope was loosened, my hands and legs were numb. Deep black imprints were left where the ropes had been. The bruises they left became red and swollen. Only after all the prisoners in the cellblock interceded on my behalf, did the prison guards finally allow me to simply sleep.

Before long, however, the prisoners in charge of monitoring me began torturing me again. Just before I was ready to fall asleep, they would ask me whether I still practiced Falun Dafa. Disregarding whether I had even answered them, they tied me for three nights, and then asked me again whether I still practiced, threatening to tie me for an entire week, regardless of my answer, unless I promised to give up practicing. I ignored them and prepared to fall asleep. They just pulled me up and tied me. After ten days of this, they no longer asked me anything, but routinely tied me up very tightly as soon as I had finished working each day. When I was half-hung, there was no point of support for my whole body other than my tiptoes. This time, after tying me for several days, they said they would let me go to sleep as long as I did not awaken earlier than they did. One day, I was beaten just because I had gotten up before them to fold my blanket. Another time, because I had been caught talking, the person on duty and the prisoners stuffed a dirty rag in my mouth, sealed it with tape, then beat my face and mouth, which became red and swollen. The person on duty also threw some hard-soled boots at my head.

Sometimes, I was tied up from day until night and also half-hung. One night, after we were forced to see a TV program that slandered Falun Dafa, I was told to write a review of the program. I refused, and said that I wanted to practice the next morning. The team leader said, "You will be tied up if you practice." He ordered the personnel on duty to come over and make me stand on a chair while they hung me from the crossbeam of the labor section. After tying me up, they removed the chair. Several practitioners were tied up this time, and some of them had been tied up continuously for a week. Several times, I was also tied in a kneeling posture, with my feet pressed flat and bundled to an iron rod along with my hands.

Some practitioners were punished by being forced to stand in the blistering sun for long periods. For several months at a time, some practitioners were not allowed to sleep for more than two hours per day. In one instance, the prisoners in charge of monitoring did not allow Falun Dafa practitioners to close their eyes, even for a second, or they would be punished by being forced to "stand still" and also have an additional day added to their prison terms. [The so-called "Punishment by Forcing to Stand for a Long Time" means that the victim has to stand, facing a wall all day long except for the time spent eating, sleeping and using the toilet, from the time she rises until the next morning when she is allowed to go to bed. This abuse usually lasts several days. If someone cannot withstand the intensity of prolonged standing and loses consciousness, the guards will then force-feed her with drugs.]

One day, because I was overheard telling another practitioner that the brainwashing was immoral, I was confined to a solitary compartment for over ten days. There were no chopsticks supplied with the meal, so I did not eat. Later on, the person on duty ordered me to dump the food into the toilet bowl. I refused, but asked her to please take it to feed the pigs. The following day, the prisoner served my rice in a filthy bowl.

I was confined in a solitary compartment for the second time because I practiced the Falun Dafa exercises. The team leader abused me with foul language. Several practitioners who had gone astray attempted to brainwash me. They saw that I was thinly clad and it had just turned cold, so they interceded by giving me a coat. But the team leader did not approve and did not allow me to have it, or a blanket either. I was so cold that it was impossible to fall asleep. After enduring this for several nights, I finally requested a blanket, but they just gave me some old batting.

The prisoners in charge of monitoring practitioners stripped me naked and tied me up with both of my hands pulled in opposite directions. They put a stool between my legs and tied my feet. Two prisoners indecently fondled my body with their hands. At the same time, they beat and abused me saying, "So, you want to fight with the Party and the prison guards! Do you think you can you win? Can you leave this place? Tonight, we will not stop fondling you until you write the statement of guarantee." [A statement to declare that she is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.] "If you do not write it tonight, we will continue with this tomorrow. We do not intend to sleep tonight."

They also invited other prisoners to come and watch them beat and fondle me. Only one person came over to beat me, to whom I said, "Do not do such a thing. There is no benefit to you if you do it." But they did not listen to me. Then I called the prison guards to untie me and told them I had something to say. It was a very long time before the prison guards asked the person on duty to untie me.

Since the Falun Dafa practitioners adhered to their belief and refused to be brainwashed, all of their daily activities were restricted. They were not allowed to talk, look at each other or even smile. Sometimes, two practitioners would be found walking a bit too close to each other, so they would be abused. Even if we wanted to go to the toilet, we had to ask for permission. During our menstrual periods, the regulation did not allow us to go to the toilet at night. Sometimes, we were not even allowed to go during the day either. The police guards said, "Why did you not transform [get brainwashed]?" Even when we were allowed to go to the toilet, they also hurried us and abused us. Some elderly practitioners were pulled up, beaten and abused, even when they had not yet finished using the toilet. Since I was often prevented from going to the toilet for long periods of time, I suffered from incontinence. We were also not allowed to take showers or receive any money from our family or friends. The prisoners monitoring me were free to ransack my bag and pockets at any time, so my money was often stolen. Some prisoners often helped themselves to my daily necessities as well. Sometimes, friends and relatives would try to send daily necessities to me, but the prison guards would not accept them for me. By following the prison guards' orders to monitor Falun Dafa practitioners, a criminal prisoner could have her prison term reduced and her workload cut in half. If a prisoner could successfully force Falun Dafa practitioners to compromise their belief, then her prison term could be reduced even more.

We had to work for over ten hours each day. Sometimes, in order to finish the designated workload, we had to work overtime till midnight or sometimes later, even through the night. Generally, we made handicraft products for export. This painstaking labor overtaxed the nerves and the eyes. Some people's eyes became severely damaged from the work. Falun Dafa practitioners as old as sixty or seventy were also persecuted in the same way.

Initially, I was illegally sentenced to a year of forced labor "re-education," but because I adhered to my belief, another year was added to my sentence. Liang Suzhen, Team Leader of the prison guards, told me that the law stipulated the additional time. She also told me later that I was released because I had gone on a hunger strike. When the prison guards in the forced labor camp had tried to brutally force-feed me one morning, they could not insert the tube. Nevertheless, they kept trying all morning long.

After my release from the forced labor camp, I was sent directly to the Detention and Brainwashing Center in a city in Guangxi, where I was detained for eight months. Finally, I broke out because I had gone on a sixty-one-day hunger strike to protest the persecution. After the eighteenth day of my hunger strike, I was force-fed about ten times. They also transferred personnel from the forced labor camp and the Political and Judiciary Committee to assist in force-feeding. This procedure was administered as follows: They pinned my hands and feet and forced me to lie on a sofa, then pinched my nose with their hands, which terrified me, as it rendered me unable to breathe. Sometimes, they would insert the tube and then pull it out, vigorously moving the tube up and down, and deliberately inflicting excruciating pain. During one force-feeding, I began bleeding, yet they continued. Afterwards, while they were cleaning the tube, they said, "We saved your life; you should be thanking us." They really had a way of confusing black and white. Just after almost torturing me to death, they still had the insensitivity to say they had saved my life! For many days after this horrible experience, it was very painful for me to speak and I passed blood. Before allowing me to recuperate, however, they administered a second force-feeding. When the male head of the forced labor camp hospital inserted the tube into my nose, my esophagus and stomach were still painful. When he pulled out the tube, it was covered with blood, so he knew there were internal injuries. This doctor told me that it was "just old blood" and that it would feel better if I would eat some food.

I also had seen that tube, and said, "My esophagus and stomach are injured. Let me out of detention. Otherwise, you will shoulder the responsibility if I die." However, he did not listen to me and began inserting the tube again, causing me to bleed profusely. There was blood all over the inside and outside of my shirt and pants, and on the sofa. When another detainee, standing nearby, saw my situation he could not help but shed tears, and begged the doctor not to continue the force-feeding. This procedure caused me to bleed internally five times. While a male doctor at the labor camp hospital was forcibly feeding me, he abused me and also slandered our Teacher.

All of the above are my personal experiences and things that I have witnessed. Coercion cannot change the human heart. No matter what brutal and abhorrent means they may use, they cannot change practitioners' hearts.

(Clearwisdom.net)

The Guiyang Criminal Investigation Division of Guizhou Province fully complies with orders to persecute Falun Gong, and from the start has used many evil tricks including surveillance, pursuit, capture, and kidnapping of practitioners. These thugs who call themselves the "instruments of the dictatorship" relentlessly extort confessions by using torture when they interrogate the Falun Dafa practitioners locked in the Guiyang Number One and Number Two Detention Centers. Besides the frequently used tortures of cuffing and hanging up, [With both hands cuffed, both feet off or only toes touching the ground, one is hung from a basketball support or the beam of a house by the handcuffs. The hands and arms soon become paresthetic and numb.] whipping with a leather belt, punching and kicking practitioners, these thugs also tear up Falun Dafa books and use the most filthy language to abuse and insult Falun Dafa practitioners.

These policemen have invented a very cruel torture tool to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners, which is known as the "famous homemade steel chair of the Criminal Investigation Division." The practitioners are bound to the homemade steel chair with both of their hands tied from behind. The torture sometimes lasts for more than six hours. Once the torture starts the victim's arms instantly become red and swollen, and afterwards the victim is bruised and lacerated, or even crippled. While torturing Falun Dafa practitioners these police officers shout ferociously, "It's the orders from above, we can use all sorts of methods and measures to deal with you Falun Gong practitioners. If all this fails we can just simply drag you out and... [shoot you]"

The following is a partial list of names and telephone numbers of those who are involved in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in Guizhou Province:

Country code: 86, area code: 851

Head of the Guiyang No. One Detention Center: Xu Hua
Head of the Guiyang No. Two Detention Center: Luo Wen
Head of Legal Section of Dujun City Public Security Bureau: Yan Ronggui: 8222026
Self proclaimed "evil policeman" of the Guiyang Criminal Investigation Division: Chen Gang: 8866644
Preliminary Hearing Department, Guiyang: Zhu Xiaofeng
Nanming Sub-bureau of the Guiyang Public Security Bureau: Ye Fenglin and Zhou Jian

The following is a list of those involved in the illegal trials and imprisonment of eleven Falun Dafa practitioners for the so-called "crime of tapping into television:"

Chief Judge of the Wudang District Court, Guiyang City: Xu Shengying
Judges of the Wudang Distric Court, Guiyang City: Kang Yinxiang and Sun Junning
Clark of the Wudang Distric Court: Wang Xiaohui
Deputy Attorney General of the Wudang Distric, Guiyang City: Wang Lei

(Clearwisdom.net) Police Chief Yang Lichun of Inner Mongolia, Tuquan County, Liming, tapped telephones to find the whereabouts of Falun Dafa practitioners and reported them to the "610 Office" [a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches.]. On the 6^th of January 2001, Wang Jinghua led a group of police into Bayuquan District of Yingkou City, Liaoning Province and arrested practitioner Zhang. This practitioner was later unlawfully sentenced to one year in a forced labour camp.

Not long after this, Yang Lichun's wife was involved in a car accident and suffered severe injuries to her head. One person's action thus brought disaster to the entire family.

Liu Zijing, from the Heilongjiang Province Shuangcheng Police Department's "610 Office" has been persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners and has been closely following the Jiang regime's orders. Liu's father handed the truth clarification material given to him by practitioner Liu Jie to the "610 Office" and reported Liu Jie to the police for clarifying the truth. This caused Liu Jie to be arrested and tortured to death within a few days.

Liu Zijing has just undergone an operation to remove his gallbladder, and is currently in the emergency unit of the hospital.

November 2, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

On September 18, 2003, three Falun Dafa practitioners, Mao Changqing, Li Jianguo, and Tian Yuxi were secretly transferred to Xinmi City Prison for further persecution. Practitioner Li Jianzhou from Tongzhaipu Town, Tanghe County, Nanyang City was detained in Xinmi Prison for over a month. At the end of this period, he was sent to the emergency room of Xinmi Hospital. When he arrived he was nearly dead with blood spewing from his mouth. His family visited him around October 28, 2003 after receiving the notice. Detailed information is still under investigation.

Mr. Li Jianzhou is 40 years old. He is a peasant from Tongzhaipu Town, Tanhe County, Nanyang City, Henan Province. In October 2001, he had to leave home due to persecution by officers from the Political and Security Division of the Police Bureau of Tanghe County.

Mr. Mao Changqing is 36 years old. He is a peasant from Liyuan village, Tongzhaipu Town, Tanghe County, Nanyang City. In August 2001, he had to leave home due to persecution by officers from the Political and Security Division of the Police Bureau of Tanghe County. In March 2002, Mao Changqing and Li Jianzhou were arrested while distributing truth-clarifying materials on Binhe Avenue in Nanyang City. One thousand Yuan in cash [approximately a 2-month salary of an average urban worker.], two pagers, one cellular phone, two bicycles, and some truth-clarifying materials were confiscated.

Policemen Guo Wanru and Li Yongxue from the Security Brigade of Wolong District, Nanyang City tortured them in an attempt to force them to confess to committing a crime. They bent the practitioners' heads between their legs and tied their hands and legs together. Then, they were hung up with a rope. They were assaulted with electric batons and other torture instruments for 4 days and 4 nights. Later, the police from the Security Brigade of Wolong District ransacked practitioners' homes and arrested Tian Yuxi and two other practitioners. The police confiscated a printer, a copy machine, Falun Dafa books, and other materials. Practitioner Tian Yuxi was beaten at the scene. Tian Yuxi was subsequently taken to the Security Brigade of Wolong District and tortured savagely to force a confession from him. Later, these five practitioners were detained in the first detention center of Nanyang City (Shanzhuang Detention Center).

In July 2002, the Wancheng District Court of Nanyang City held a secret trial for Mao Changqing, Li Jianzhou, and Tian Yuxi. None of their families were notified. It was learned in the summer of 2003 that Tian Yuxi was unjustly sentenced to 9 years, Mao Changqing 8 years, and Li Jianzhou 7 years. Practitioner Tian Yuxi went on a hunger strike for several days to protest the unjust sentence. He was brutally force-fed. Mao Changqing went on huger strikes twice during his time in the first detention center and was also force-fed . Several police officers held him down and pried his mouth open. During the force feeding some people also tickled his armpits in order to force him to comply. The three practitioners appealed the unjust sentence. The Wancheng district court did not hold any new trial but soon issued an order to "maintain the original judgment." The Wancheng District Court did not follow Chinese law in sentencing these Falun Dafa practitioners; instead, it followed the order from Jiang's regime and sentenced the practitioners at will.

On September 18, 2003, Mao Changqing, Li Jianzhou, and Tian Yuxi were secretly transferred to Xinmin Prison of Zhengzhou City for further persecution. Never during the process of arrest, trial, sentencing or transfer to Xinmi Prison of Zhengzhou City were the families of these three practitioners ever notified. Twenty days after they were transferred to Xinmi prison, their families went to the first detention center of Nanyang City to visit them. The prison police still extorted money from the families even though the practitioners had been transferred to Xinmi Prison.

Dafa practitioners and fellow practitioners of our region who have read this article, please watch closely the persecution and suffering of these three practitioners, expose the evils, and rescue the practitioners. I appeal to Dafa practitioners to send forth powerful righteous thoughts. Eliminate all the evil factors that are persecuting Dafa and practitioners in other dimensions surrounding Xinmi Prison and the first detention center of Nanyang City and strengthen our fellow practitioners so that they may get out of prison soon.

November 1, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Fu Yan, a Dafa practitioner in Jinzhou city, is 48 years of age. She began to cultivate Falun Dafa in 1996, and since then, her health has become better and better. Her coronary heart disease and disappeared completely.

In July 1999, Jiang Zemin began to suppress Falun Gong, but Fu Yan still steadfastly cultivated Falun Dafa. One day in the summer of 2003, when Fu Yan went out to clarify the truth to people, female Police Officer Wang Yue from Zhengda's local police station in Jinzhou City abducted her, pushing her headfirst down the stairs. During the abduction, the police scratched her, violently pulled her hair, and bruised the upper part of her breast.

Later on, Officer Liu Guidong and other police from Jinzhou Police Department took Fu Yan to a second detention center in Jinzhou City. Fu Yan held a hunger strike there for more than 30 days to protest the illegal detention. Seeing that she was at the brink of death, the detention center notified her family members. When her son came to the hospital, he burst into tears after seeing the awful effects of the torture on his mother. The police just sneered at her son's anguish.

After 41 days of detention, Fu Yan emerged with righteous thoughts. On October 30, the presiding judge and two police officers from Jinzhou court came to Fu Yan's home, announcing that October 31, the very next day, was the date of her trial. Fu Yan resplied, "No." That night, she left home with righteous thoughts. At 2:00 am the next morning, the Police Department in Jinzhou City started a manhunt. Every local police station was searching for Fu Yan. Those directly responsible:

Jinzhou Police Department, Liu Guidong: 86-416-2120882(H)

Jinzhou Linghe District Court, Zhou Jun: 86-416-2834230(H)

This incident regarding Fu Yan has now been classified as a "big case" by Liaoning Province. Since Fu Yan left home, her family has been put under surveillance 24 hours a day. Her phone has been tapped. The building on the opposite side of the street has been equipped with an infrared detection device. There are at least five policemen downstairs. The community office sent a person to live in the building to keep a close watch. On the street in front of the building, the police in a taxi drive by repeatedly after 10:30 pm to secretly keep an eye on the family.

Fu Yan's son is under surveillance 24 hours a day, being followed by more than 30 police officers or by a vehicle when he goes out. Police are hiding out at her son's school and work unit to keep a close watch on him. Each place has at least 30 people. Except for when he is asleep, every minute of her son's life is spied upon. Fu Yan's husband has been also watched over 24 hours a day. The situation of the family is temporarily stable.

One policeman said, "As long she comes home or calls home, regardless of whether or not she stays, if the Police Department finds out, we will charge the family with the crime of hiding a felon if the family does not report her. Then the whole family will be arrested." This shows how vicious the police are.

(Clearwisdom.net)

I am a 53 year-old female Dafa practitioner. On September 1, 2003, a heavy truck knocked me down while I was crossing the road.

Being very clear-headed at that time, I thought, "I am a Dafa practitioner, and I should be all right." I stood up right away. Both of the people in the truck came over. While I was about to ask them to help me stand up, another thought flashed to my mind, "No. I must stand up by myself," so I stood up. They asked me, "Are you all right?" I thought that I should save these people and clarify the truth to them, so I told them I was fine. When I began to talk, I noticed that my left incisor was broken. There were also two people passing by. I continued talking, "I am a Falun Gong practitioner. You are lucky that you have knocked me down. You could have gotten into trouble if you had knocked down somebody else. We Falun Gong practitioners are good people. It is all right if you can remember that Falun Dafa is good." They nodded, but still dared not leave. I repeated it several times, asking them to remember, "Falun Dafa is good." I also persuaded them to leave.

Because the collision was a shock, I felt my body shivering. I pressed my palms together in front of me to give thanks for Master's protection. After I was indoors, I noticed that both of my elbows were bruised--I was in a short sleeve shirt. Recalling what had happened, I remembered that the truck first struck my left incisor, but I did not feel any pain. I only felt a bit uncomfortable when I was eating, and that disappeared completely the next day. I remembered that my head hit the ground first. Normally the back of the head should have hit the ground first. But I did not feel a bump on the back of my head, nor did I feel any pain. I only felt a slight pain at the top of my head. I felt some pain in my neck when I washed my face the next morning. By the third day my neck just felt uncomfortable. I also felt pain in the muscles of my lower abdomen, like the ache after doing physical exercises.

Based on my judgment, such a strong impact could have knocked me a great distance. But the result showed that only one of my teeth had absorbed it all. In addition, I only lost a small piece of that tooth, less than a millimeter long. I dare not imagine and cannot figure out our how Master endured this accident for me. However, I know that I was given a second chance at life.

After I was knocked down my first thought of saving people was a selfless thought with no selfishness, a thought of considering others before oneself. However, I was not born with it. Nor does it show how great a disciple is. This thought originated from Dafa. I have reached such realm because I have cultivated Dafa. It is the result of Master's protection and my melting into Dafa. From then on, I have become more aware of Master's grandness and Master's protection of every being. Therefore, I have written this to glorify Master. I have no words to express Master's vast and mighty grace to me.

(Clearwisdom.net) I am 73 years old. Throughout my life I had always been very healthy. I had no problem eating or sleeping until last September. At that time I gradually began feeling uncomfortable and fatigued. Then I began suffering from stomach pains and started eating less and less. By last December, I could only eat porridge instead of solid food. I became weaker and weaker. My legs were swollen. I did not see a doctor. I quickly lost weight and became so weak that I could not even walk. As it got worse, I had to stay in bed all the time. After my friends and family urged me to see a doctor, I went and had an X-ray done on my stomach. The doctor said that it was stomach cancer. I had a malignant tumor the size of an egg. The tumor grew rapidly, and I felt it moving in my stomach every day. The doctor suggested that I go to a larger hospital without delay. On March 11th, my second son sent me to my eldest son's home, which is located in the capital city of the province. We went to the hospital the very next day. Upon seeing the X-ray result, the doctor suggested to me that I had no other choice besides surgery. The operation's cost was estimated to be 8,000 Yuan. Even so, the doctors could not guarantee that the operation would be successful. I figured that I was too old and weak to survive the surgery. I then decided not to have the surgery and instead go home and wait for the worst.

When I was in deep desperation, my two sons persuaded me to practice Falun Gong. I hesitated, for I did not know Falun Gong well at that time, and I had seen all the bad propaganda on TV. My sons tried very hard to convince me and told me many examples of how fatally ill patients got well after they practiced Falun Gong. Eventually I changed my mind and decided to give it a try.

Starting from April 15th, 2001, I listened to one of the 2-hour lecture tapes given by Master Li in Jinan every day. The lectures lasted seven days. The first four days I felt discomfort all over. I could not eat meat and only drank a little milk and porridge. The last three days were even worse. I could not even drink porridge. I threw up every time I tried to eat. I had not eaten anything for three days and vomited yellowish liquid several times a day. It was quite unbearable. I wanted to go home, and blamed my son for watching me suffer. My son replied, "Master Li is purifying your body." I held on for seven days. Though I did not eat anything during the last three days, I looked very well and felt better. On the morning of the eighth day, I ate and felt relaxed. On the ninth day, I went shopping with my son and had lunch at a relative's house. I could eat like a normal person. Then we continued shopping in the afternoon. I was not tired at all. I was shocked. How could I recover this quickly? How miraculous Falun Gong was! I had only practiced Falun Gong for eight days, and not only were all my diseases gone, my personality was also changed. I was totally reborn. It is Falun Gong that saved my life and gave me a second chance.

In the lectures, Teacher Li asks us to conduct ourselves based on "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance". We have to be good people and be kind to others. We always try to help others and look within ourselves when a conflict occurs. Do not seek after fame and gain and look lightly on profit. What a wonderful teaching our Teacher has given us! I wish more people would get to know and practice Falun Gong.

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I told an elderly woman about Falun Dafa two years ago. This year, she told me that Falun Dafa saved her life. This is her story.

In May of this year, a hospital examination revealed that both of my kidneys were deteriorating. The doctor told my family that I could not be cured. So, dependent on the medicine that kept me alive, I waited to die. The hospital bill was almost 300 thousand Chinese Yuan [500 Yuan is equal to the average monthly salary of an urban worker].

On June 8, a Falun Gong practitioner was on her way to deliver truth-clarifying materials to her friend. By mistake, she knocked on my door instead. I opened the door with difficulty. When this practitioner saw that I was in such terrible condition, she wanted to tell me the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution. I told her, "I am almost dead, and I don't have time to listen to truth-clarification. Somebody once recommended that I learn Falun Gong but my family did not permit it, so at that time, I didn't learn. Now please give me a Falun Gong book, let me read it."

A week later, she gave me a Falun Gong book, Zhuan Falun. I could only read the book while lying down. It took eight days for me to finish this book, after which, I could sit up to read. When I finished reading the book for the second time, I could walk and eat normally. After I finished reading it for the third time, I felt great from head to toe. I went to the hospital for an examination and found that everything had returned to normal. My family could not believe it. During the next few days, I went to the hospital for more examinations. Everything was still normal. My son asked me, "Did you swallow a cure-all?" I said, "I read Zhuan Falun three times." So my son said, "Since Falun Dafa is so good, you may continue to learn." From then on, my children tell everyone they meet: "Falun Dafa saved my mother's life!"

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• [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Remembering the Deeds of Practitioner Liu Chengjun
• [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Li Haiyan's Life Is in Danger She is Subjected to Torture at the Harbin Female Prison
• [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Guiming was Tortured While Held in Detention
• [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Liu Junhua has been on a Hunger Strike for Over a Week
• [Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Zhang Jiqiu's Home Was Searched
• [Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province] Party Secretary Deng Weilong Plots to Escalate the Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners
• [Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province] A Variety of Monitoring Cameras are throughout the City
• [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Yu Ming has been Illegally Arrested in Beijing
• [Hunan Province] Hunan Practitioners Be Careful
• [Jilin Province] A Suggestion to Send Forth Righteous Thoughts at the Top of 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm Every Day
• [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Team Two of Longshan Forced Labor Camp Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners Brutally
• [Baicheng City, Jilin Province] Concerns About Practitioner Wang Jingang's Life
• [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp Forces Falun Gong Practitioners to Labor very Intensively
• [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Wang Jinfeng was Illegally Arrested
• [Shahe City, Hebei Province] Three Practitioners are Illegally Detained at the Xingtai Brainwashing Class
• [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Practitioner Wen Chunying was Illegally Detained at the Shijiazhuang Brainwashing Center
• [Jinan City, Shandong Province] Criminal Deeds of the "610 Office" at Linpan Oil Drilling Plant
• [Yidu City, Hubei Province] Practitioner Xiao Gang Was Illegally Sentenced to a Forced Labor Camp
• [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Police Check Rental Houses in Order to Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners
• [Shenze County, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Perseucted
• [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Rental Houses Are Checked
• [Baishan City, Jilin Province] Practitioner Sun Liping was Arrested
• [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] 4400 "Patrol Guards" Are Enrolled
• [Xianning City, Hubei Province] Phone Number of People Responsible for Xianning Practitioner Xu Yufeng's Death
• [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Supplementary Materials About Practitioner Qiu Xiuxin

I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from the Changchun area of Jilin Province. Due to persecution at Department No.1 of Changchun Public Security Bureau, I was transferred to the Surgery Section of Changchun Public Security Hospital on March 21, 2002. In April, Falun Gong practitioners staying in the hospital were gathered into Room 4, where I was, under the pretense of the doctor doing an examination. Liu Chengjun was handcuffed even in the hospital. But the police removed his handcuffs that day. Not long after, three people from the television station entered with the director of the Prison Executive Office. A female reporter asked Liu Chengjun several questions. Liu Chengjun did not answer in order not to be taken advantage of. When he saw the two male photographers were ready to take pictures, Liu Chengjun pulled a quilt to cover his face. He did not cooperate with the evil. At the time, the prisoner who was in charge, carried me away, and other practitioners were sent out of the room as well. After a while, I was carried back to my room. Liu Chengjun was still there. And the director of the Prison Executive Office looked very frustrated. Liu Chengjun's righteous thoughts and righteous behavior foiled the evils' scheme.

Li Haiyan is from Yangshu Town in the Elunchun Autonomous Tribe of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Jiagedaqi Court in Heilongjiang Province illegally sentenced her to 13 years in prison. Currently she is being detained at Section Seven of Harbin Female Prison. Due to persecution, her life is in great danger. She has been transferred to the Patients Section.

Relevant people involved in the persecution:

Wang Xing, president of the prison: 86-451-86359454
Chu Shuhua (female), vice president of the prison: 86-451-86359322
Kang X, team head
Cui Yan, vice team head
Wu Xuesong, Shi Ying, Lei Lei, Nu Hua, Yuan X, Lan Hong, Jiang Wei, Lin Jia, Yuan Min, prison guards
Address: Heilongjiang Female Prison, #387, Xuefu Road, Nangang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, 150069

Tonghua practitioner Wang Guiming was illegally arrested at Tonghua Cultural Market in the summer of 2002. He was then sentenced to seven years in prison, and jailed in Jilin Prison. During detention, Wang Guiming was persecuted with inhumane torture methods like the "Dead Man's Bed" [a kind of torture where a special bed is used to tie practitioners to---by translator] and "Riding an Airplane" [a painful torture with one's hands bent to the back and body laying on the floor---by translator] among others. He was confined in a solitary compartment, hung up and force-fed. But he never yielded to the persecution. Police guards told his family members that he was experiencing an illness called "Water in the Lungs". He is extremely weak and has been sent to Jilin Prison Administrative Central Hospital. But, his family members are not allowed to see him.

Practitioner Liu Junhua has been on a hunger strike for over a week at Jiamusi Prison, protesting the persecution. Currently he is in very poor condition, but the prison refuses to release him. His mother came to see him from another province. However, the prison didn't allow her to visit him.

Phone number of Reeducation Section of Jiamusi Prison: 86-454-8317448
Phone number of the president's office: 86-454-8303838

Since the end of October, Qiqihar practitioner Zhang Jiqiu has been illegally tracked down, and his (her) family has been searched and their property confiscated. Currently, Zhang Jiqiu and another practitioner whose name is unknown became destitute and homeless.

Recently, due to persecution in the big cities, small counties and prisons being escalated, many truth-clarifying material sites were sabotaged.

Deng Weilong, the Party Secretary of Zhanjiang City, instructed his people to escalate the persecution of local Falun Dafa practitioners. Not long ago, a brainwashing class was held locally, and several dozen practitioners were arrested.

Phone numbers of relevant people:

Chen Jun, vice director of the "610 Office" in Zhanjiang City, 86-759-3334087 (home)
Chen Yong, section director, 86-759-3211067
Liu Jianqiang, from the Development District of the city, 86-13702721251 (cell)

According to inside sources, Jiang has been in Hangzhou City recently. Over 800 monitoring cameras of different kinds have been installed all over the city. These cameras can turn 360 degrees.

Shenyang practitioner Yu Ming was illegally arrested when he (she) went to Lugu Police Substation to pick up a handbag he (she) lost around 4:00 pm on October 29, 2003. He (She) hasn't come back yet.

Recently, the provincial government and provincial public security department held a conference with the government officers from all levels of Hunan Province in attendance. Arrangements were made in the meeting to further "crack down" on Falun Gong and to dig out the so-called "underground organizations" and "kernel members" in Falun Gong. According to practitioners' analysis, this meeting had something to do with Jiang's visit to Changsha City a while ago.

Recently, Dafa practitioner Liu Chengjun's life is in great danger due to persecution, which makes us become more clear in mind that the persecution is going on all the time. Zhao Guifeng, detained at Hezuizi Prison, has been on a hunger strike for many days. When she was force-fed recently, the pipe could not be inserted into her nose any longer due to the wounds cause by the force-feeding. However, the evil refused to release her. Zhang Zhongyu, a practitioner from Dalian City has been on a hunger strike for days at the Tiebei Detention Center and his life is in great danger now. At the Shuangyang Detention Center, needles were used to penetrate through practitioners' ten fingers until they touched practitioners' finger joints. Then the needles were turned constantly. This is one of the most vicious torture methods. One female practitioner was tortured this way for a whole month simply because she went on a hunger strike, protesting the illegal detention.

Tang Yubao, vice head of Team Two of the Longshan Forced Labor Camp often beat up practitioners who insisted on their beliefs. Jiang Yingxin was beaten up for not giving up her belief. She went on a hunger strike protesting the persecution. She became extremely weak after two months of hunger striking. Even her blood vessels became flat and hard to find when she was given an intravenous drip. She was sent to a hospital recently. We don't know whether she is still alive or not.

Wang Lijuan's detention was extended three months after completion of consecutive terms in Team Two. In addition, the police had a group of criminal prisoners beat her up. They beat and kicked her from the third floor to the main floor. Consequently, her head was seriously wounded, and now, her head keeps shaking uncontrollably. She suffered a lot mentally as well.

Tang Yubao is directly responsible for the persecution.

Phone number of Team Two of Longshan Forced Labor Camp: 86-24-24761745

Wang Jingang, 25 years old, from Baicheng City, is a former student of the Arts Department of Jilin Engineering Institute. In August 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. After he came back from Beijing, he was dismissed from the school. In October 2001, he was illegally arrested for distributing truth-clarifying materials at Erdaozi District of Changchun City. It has been two years since then. Nobody knows where he is. His family members and friends worry about his life and have been looking for him everywhere.

The Erdaozi Public Security Branch in Changchun City has illegally sentenced many Falun Dafa practitioners to forced labor and prison. Some practitioners were persecuted to death. The Erdaozi Public Security Branch should be held fully responsible for the disappearance of Wang Jingang.

Currently, Team Three of the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp has a contract for making paper products (one time use for covering toilets) for export. In order to make more profit, practitioners are forced to work a long time every day including weekends unless there is a shortage of raw materials or the machine is broken. Practitioners are not allowed to rest after meals. Except for the three meals, practitioners work about twelve hours a day without rest. Plus, they have to count the numbers while folding the paper products. They usually have a headache, sore limbs and cannot see things clearly after a day's work.

Practitioners are not just overworked without rest, but they also are constantly forced to increase their workloads. The camp uses threats, intimidation and physical abuse to keep everyone working.

In order to manufacture more products, practitioners were forced to work during the National Day holidays. On October 2, before the officers from the Judicial Bureau came to inspect, police guards told practitioners, "If you are asked why you work during holidays, you should answer that you work voluntarily."

On November 2, 2003, Qianjing Branch of Jiamusi Public Security Bureau illegally arrested Ms. Wang Jinfeng and Ms. Gao Yulan (in her seventies). Their homes were searched illegally. Later on, Gao Yulan was released. However, Wang Jinfeng is still being detained at the Jiamusi Detention Center.

Ms. Wen Chunying is an employee from the Archives Bureau of Qiaodong District, Shijiazhuang City. In late fall of 2002, she was illegally arrested while studying the Fa together with other practitioners in Cheng'an County. She was sent to the Shijiazhuang Brainwashing Center earlier this summer. It has been three months, and she hasn't been released yet.

Phone number of the Shijiazhuang Brainwashing Center: 86-311-7712641
Phone number of Mr. Li, Wen Chunying's husband, 86-311-6818867
Phone number of Wen Chunying's parents: 86-311-6829067
Phone number of Wen Chunying's sister: 86-311-5685563

Three Falun Dafa practitioners (one in her seventies, two in their fifties) from Shahe City were reported on and illegally arrested while clarifying the truth of Dafa in mountainous areas. At the local detention center, they went on a hunger strike for over ten days and became very weak. However, they were sent to the Xingtai Brainwashing Class anyway. The brainwashing class didn't accept them for fear that they might have to take responsibility if the practitioners died in the class. However, the "610 Office" reported to Qu Bing, Party Secretary of Shahe Politics & Law Committee who insisted that the brainwashing class accept the practitioners for intensified persecution in spite of the weakness of the three practitioners on hunger strike.

The "610 Office" at Linpan Oil Drilling Plant of Shengli Oil Field brutally persecutes Falun Dafa practitioners. Ms. Li Chunwu, 50 years old, was illegally arrested while distributing truth-clarifying materials. It's been three months since she was detained in Team Five of Jinan Female Forced Labor Camp. Every day, she was forced to labor over ten hours. Sometimes, she has to work until midnight and start early again the next morning. Police require her family members not only to bring their ID cards and household booklets when visiting her at the camp, but also to slander Falun Dafa. Otherwise, her family members are not allowed to see her.

People mainly responsible for the persecution:

Sun Bolin, Party Secretary of the Principles Inspection Committee, 86-534-8862818 (office), 86-534-8861061 (home)

Jia Peiyong, vice director of the Public Security Bureau, 86-534-8867874 (office), 86-534-8869006 (home)

Wang Geping, director, 86-534-8867814 (office), 86-534-8869576 (home)

Address of Jinan Female Forced Labor Camp: #20, Jiangshuiquan Road, Lixia District, Jinan City, 250014 (post code)

In October 2003, Yidu practitioner Xiao Gang was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor for distributing truth-clarifying materials.

It was learned that the police in Shenyang City are working hard to check rental houses. They would pry open the door after knocking twice. Some practitioners were illegally arrested during the process.

Ms. Jia Rongjuan, 47-year-old, is from Shenze County. She has been to Beijing many times in order to validate Dafa. By the end of 2000, police illegally broke into her home and searched for Dafa materials and banners. Jia was illegally arrested and detained at the local detention center. In March 2001, she was illegally sentenced to forced labor for three years. All kinds of torture means couldn't change her righteous belief in Dafa. In April 2003, she was secretly sent to Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province for intensified persecution. Her family members were not allowed to visit her.

Ms. He Qing, 22 years old, is from Shenze County. By the end of 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. She was illegally arrested and detained in the local detention center. One year later, she was sentenced to a forced labor camp, where she was subjected to all kinds of torture. Under high pressure and extreme torture, she was so called "transformed" and released. After exchanging experiences with fellow practitioners, she realized that she was wrong and declared solemnly that the statement she wrote was null and void. In early 2002, she went to Beijing to validate Dafa again. After that, she was arrested again and detained with Team Five of the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp. Her current situation is yet unknown.

Ms. Wang Junlan, in her fifties, is from Shenze County. In July 2003, she went to the local government to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa. She was illegally detained for that at a local detention center.

Dalian Forced Labor Camp:

Address: Nanshan Village, Jichangqian Street, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China, 116022 (post code)

Telephone: 86-411-6653961 (operator)
Director's Office: 86-411-6643017
Political instructor's office: 86-411-6643029
General office: 86-411-6641372
Administrative Section: 86-411-6652737
The Political Department: 86-411-6652331

Recently, Baojing City is checking rental houses with various excuses. Practitioners who had become destitute and homeless in order not to be illegally detained and some material sites were discovered. Practitioners at home are being harassed to a certain extent as well.

Ms. Zhao Linru, a practitioner from Mancheng County, was illegally arrested during a large scale search for Dafa practitioners in 2002. She has been detained at the Mancheng Detention Center ever since, and subject to all kinds of torture. However, she has never yielded to the evil. Recently, it was heard that Zhao is going to be illegally sentenced to prison. She might have been transferred to the Baoding Detention Center.

Sun Liping, a practitioner from Songjiang River of Fusong County, Baishan City, Jilin Province, was arrested while putting up truth-clarifying posters at Huludao.

Since October 29, 2003, a new round of enrollment has been going on in Shenyang City for security "patrol guards". According to a local newspaper, about 4400 people are to be enrolled. Many practitioners' unemployed family members registered as well. However, the police substation singled them out. Currently in Shenyang City, every community has four "patrol guards", helping police to arrest Falun Dafa practitioners. Their main task is to inspect people from outside the community. They start at 8:30 am in the morning and work until 11:30 am. After a rest, they start again at 1:30 pm till 4:30 pm. They don't work on the weekends. Usually they patrol three times in the morning and in the afternoon. They wear yellow uniforms that policemen used to wear, with "Patrol Guard" characters on their sleeves. We call attention to fellow practitioners who rent houses and distribute truth-clarifying materials to be mindful of security.

Song Ruisheng, director of Public Security Bureau of Hot Spring Development District in Xianning City, 86-715-8254253 (home), 86-13907249566 (cell)

Feng Bo, policeman from the Chalukou Police Substation at Hot Spring Development District in Xianning City (he was on the spot when Xu Yufeng was tortured to death), 86-715-8279365

Cao Wenqing, director of the Chalukou Police Substation at Hot Spring Development District in Xianning City, 86-13972800888 (cell)

Chen Lebin, political instructor of the Chalukou Police Substation at Hot Spring Development District in Xianning City, 86-13972831088 (cell)

Here are some supplementary materials regarding practitioner Qiu Xiuxin (please refer to Minghui report: 25 Dafa Practitioners Unfolding Banners at Tiananmen Square Illegally Sentenced to Prison by Dongcheng District Court in Beijing)

Qiu Xiuxin's family address: Room 101, #34 of Beizhong'erlu Road, North District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province

After an illegal trial in Beijing, she was detained in Changping. Last year, she was taken back to Jinan City. She was forced to sew every day. According to people that had been to the detention center, many practitioners were detained there, including quite a few local practitioners. In 2002, Qiu Xiuxin's father-in-law died. On October 18, 2002, her mother-in-law died too. Before her mother-in-law died, Qiu Xiuxin's sister went to see her, wishing that Qiu Xiuxin could see her mother-in-law before her death. Her sister wrote a "statement of guarantee" for her in order that she could see her mother-in-law before her death. However, Qiu Xiuxin was not allowed to go home.

(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

• Dafa Disciples' Solemn Statements [11/14/2003]
• Solemn Declarations by Non-Practitioners[11/10/2003]
• Solemn Declaration by a Young Dafa Practitioner [10/18/2003]

Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.

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The Third Labor Camp of Shanghai has a completely new way to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in 2003. They lock up one practitioner with four inmates who are committed for drug addiction and/or other criminal acts. They call this method "help and education." The police tell those criminals that they are allowed to do anything if the death rate is not higher than 5%. Those cellmates curse, beat and torture practitioners at will without any control or restrictions. Atrocities have occurred one after another in this labor camp.

Recently, by order of Chendu City "610 Office" [a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches.], many businesses in Chendu attempted to force their practitioner employees to write guarantee statements to give up Falun Gong cultivation practice. Practitioners who refused to cooperate would be forcefully kidnapped. Many businesses tried to force practitioners' family members to sign an agreement that they would convince the practitioners to write such "giving-up" statements. If the family members refused to sign, they would be threatened or intimidated by their businesses. Under such great pressure, a few practitioners' relatives agreed to this unreasonable request and signed the agreements. Some work places, such as the original 82 P.O. Box, have intentionally delayed the date of paying practitioners. This created severe financial difficulties for those practitioners. We have learned that about 500 practitioners have been locked up in a brainwashing center located in Xingjin area.

Since July 20, 1999, when Jiang's regime banned Falun Gong, Daqing Prison in Heilongjiang Province has locked up about 30 practitioners. Falun Gong practitioners were sent to the Eighth Imprisonment Area once they were taken to the prison. The police ordered and encouraged barbaric torturing of practitioners with various methods by inmates. This included but was not limited to, beating and kicking, squatting down on the ground for hours, raising both hands and bending over with face toward the ground for hours and days, not allowing practitioners to sleep at night, not allowing them to join in activities, no use of bathrooms, no doing exercise during the day, not allowing them to speak to other cellmates and not allowing visitation with their relatives. They were actually monitored for 24 hours a day.

I would like to talk about how to completely expose Jiang's crimes and how to write reports. The case of suing Jiang was dismissed because practitioners had loopholes as one body. I am listing a few of my suggestions for your consideration.

1. We should keep sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate evils in other dimensions so that the Jiang Case can move forward smoothl