The Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Pukou District, Nanjing City
(Clearwisdom.net) Before July 20, 1999 there were about 800 people
practicing Falun Gong in the Pukou District of Nanjing. After the persecution
started, many practitioners refused to give up their beliefs and were detained
many times. Their homes were ransacked, and they were continuously harassed. Ms.
Zhao Wenying was mentally traumatized. In attempting to escape, Ms. Yu Shuxia
jumped from a building and was disabled. Ms. Dong Qiaorong was followed for an
extended period, and was later paralyzed due to torture. Many practitioners'
family members and work units were also unfairly implicated. These are some cases of persecution in the Pukou District (including former
Jiangpu County and former Pukou District) by people from the local 610
Office and the police. In January 2000, practitioner Ms Zhou Lifang, Ms. Liang Dongmei, Mr. Dou
Wenxiang, Ms. Zhao Wenying, Mr. Wu Zhiming, Ms. Xu Renlan, Ms. Yu Shumei, Ms.
Kong Lingzhen, and Ms. Zhu Dongmei went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
They were illegally arrested and escorted to a detention center
close to where they live. After one month, the police transferred them to a
hotel owned by the police department (Ganlanyuan Hotel) and detained them for
twenty more days. In February 2000, Ms. Wu Chunru, Ms. Chen Xiangxiu, Ms. Ling Jun, Ms. Ji
Lianzhen, Ms. Cao Wenjing, and Ms. Dai Shujin went to appeal in Beijing. After
they were arrested, the district police department detained them in a hotel and
coerced their family members to force them to write a "guarantee
statement." Practitioners were also forced to pay large sums of money for
their illegal detention in the hotel. Around July 20, 2000, some police officers (following their superior's
orders) arrested practitioner Ms. Liang Dongmei, Ms. Kong Lingzhen, Ms. Chen
Xiangxiu, Ms. Wu Chunru and Ms. Zhu Dongmei, and detained them in a hotel in
order to "prevent them from going to appeal." At the same time, every
work unit in the district tried to extort 5,000 yuan from each
practitioner who had previously appealed. When some practitioners refused to
pay, the money was deducted from their paychecks. In August 2000, Ms. Zhao Wenying was arrested on her way to Beijing (to
appeal). Because she had appealed many times before, the police sent her to a
forced labor camp. She was severely tortured and consequently had a mental
collapse. In the same month, Ms. Yu Xixiang, Ms. Xu Renlan, and Ms. Liang
Dongmei were detained for a month for doing Falun Gong exercises at Pukou
Martyr's Monument. In late September 2000, police officers from the district Political and
Judiciary Committee and the police department ransacked all the homes of
practitioners who had appealed before. They confiscated Dafa books, exercise
music tapes, and Teacher's new articles. The perpetrators also tried to arrest
Ms. Wu Chunru but were stopped by Ms. Wu's family members. In early October 2000, in order to prevent their homes from being ransacked,
practitioners Wu Chunru, Ms. Liang Dongmei, and Ms. Xu Renlan went to the
Zhujiang Police Station to reason with the police. They were arrested and held
at the detention center for a month. In early October 2000, Ms. Zhou Lifang, Mr. Wu Zhiming, and Ms. Yu Shuxia
went to appeal. The police stopped them on a train to Beijing. They were sent
back and were held at the detention center for a month. After that, Ms. Zhou
Lifang was detained in a hotel. Several days later, Ms. Yu Shuxia was arrested.
Ms. Xu Renlan and Ms. Wu Chunru were also detained in the hotel for some time. In mid-November 2000, Ms. Xu Renlan, Ms. Wu Chunru, Ms. Zhou Lifang, and Ms.
Yu Shuxia escaped from the hotel and went to appeal in Beijing. They were
arrested and sent back. Ms. Xu Renlan was sent to a forced labor camp, and the
three other practitioners were detained in a hotel. In November 2000, Ms. Li Guangxia and Ms. Chen Xiangxiu went to appeal in
Beijing. They were arrested, detained for a month, and then sentenced to a
forced labor camp. In November 2000, Ms. Yu Xixiang, Ms. Zhu Cuiying, Ms. Dai Shujin, Mr. Tan
Xinfeng, and Ms. Geng Yingchao went to Beijing to appeal, and were arrested. Two
of them were held at the local detention center, and the other three were
detained in a hotel. In December 2000, Ms. Zhu Dongmei, Ms. Yu Shumei, Ms. Lu Jiaru, Ms. Ling Jun,
Ms. Liang Dongmei, Ms. Huang Baoying, Ms. Ling Yun, Ms. Fu Ying, Ms. Geng
Yingchao, and Huang went to appeal in Beijing. After they were arrested and sent
back, they were all detained in the police-owned hotel. In late December 2000, the police transferred Ms. Liang Dongmei, Ms. Ling
Jun, and Ms. Yu Shumei from the hotel to a detention center. Later, Ms. Liang
Dongmei was sent to a forced labor camp. Ms. Ling Jun and Ms. Yu Shumei were
taken back to the hotel, and detained for another two months. In mid-January 2001, the police department sent seven practitioners who
persisted in practicing the exercises to forced labor camps. The practitioner's
names are: Ms. Yu Xixiang, Ms. Ji Lianzhen, Ms. Dai Shujin, Ms. Yu Shuxia, Ms.
Liang Dongmei, Ms. Chen Xiangxiu and Ms. Geng Yingchao. In March 2001, Ms. Li Guangxia was sentenced to a forced labor term. In March 2001, the police department sent five mentally normal practitioners
(who refused to give up their cultivation) to a mental hospital. The
practitioners sent were: Mr. Wu Zhiming, Mr. Dou Wenxiang, Ms. Wu Chunru, Ms.
Kong Lingzhen and Ms. Zhu Dongmei. Three of them were detained in the mental
hospital for about two years. Expenses for the hospitalization were deducted
from their salaries. In July 2002, Mr. Zheng Kai from Yongning Town was arrested by the local
police for practicing the exercises outdoors. He was detained for a month, and
then sentenced to one year of forced labor. In August 2002, the Pukou District 610 Office held a brainwashing session in
Zhujiang Town. Over ten practitioners (who had been transformed in the session)
declared what they said and did under the influence of the
"brainwashing" to be null and void. The practitioners included Ms. Yu
Xixiang, Ms. Yu Shuxia, Ms. Cao Wenjing, Ms. Ge Hongmei and Ms. Zhou Guofang.
They were detained in a hotel and brainwashed for nearly three months. By the
end of November 2002, when the brainwashing session ended, Ms. Ge Hongmei and
her daughter were sentenced to forced labor terms. Ms. Yu Shuxia, Ms. Cao
Wenjing, and Ms. Zhou Guofang were transferred to the local detention center and
were held for another three months. Around October 2002, Mr. Dou Wenxiang was sentenced to a forced labor camp,
for visiting Falun Gong websites. In April 2003, Ms. Yu Shuxia was held for one month at the local detention
center, for declaring her previous guarantee statement as void. In mid-February 2004, over twenty people from the district 610 Office, police
department, local police station(s), and work units such as the Sanitation
Bureau and Chinese Medicine Hospital went to Ms. Yu Shuxia's home. They tried to
take her to a brainwashing session. Ms. Yu firmly resisted and was forced to
jump from her second floor apartment to escape. She sustained multiple injuries
from the jump. After she returned home from the hospital, members of the city
and district 610 Office harassed her at home many times, and ordered her to
write a guarantee statement. Ms. Yu refused. In the same month, Dou Wenxiang was
arrested and sent to a brainwashing center in Nanjing. From November 2004 to January 2005, Ms. Geng Yingchao, Ms. Dai Shujin, and
Ms. Ling Jun were arrested and held at the local detention center or
brainwashing center for nearly two months. The persecutors also ransacked their
homes. The work units of two practitioners had to submit 10,000 yuan each to the
brainwashing center as "expenses." During a sports game in Nanjing City in 2005, the Jiangsu Province Police
Department ordered all the counties and cities to strictly control
practitioners. Ms. Wu Chunru, Ms. Dai Shujin, and Ms. Ling Jun were arrested for
mailing truth-clarifying materials. They were held at the local
detention center for a month. The persecutors also ransacked their homes. Since 1999, work units in the district that have participated in the
persecution include the city and district 610 Offices, the district police
department, Zhujiang Police Station, the district Political and Judiciary
Committee, the Industry Bureau, Business Trade Bureau, Sanitation Bureau, Bureau
of Education, Tax Bureau, File Bureau, Land Bureau, Construction Bureau, and
some work units under the control of the above authorities. People who participated in the persecution and relevant personnel include Wu
Zhengqiang, Bi Chunxiao, Ping Yuanwu, Lu Xueping, Wang Wengao, Li Youfa, Gao
Hongmin, Wang Xiaomin, Xiao Ningjian, Mu Zhiping, Xu Keli, Liu Binbin, Wang
Qiaozhuan, Wang Lin, Fu Jiabao, Li Jinhua, Zhou Linhua, Jiang Aimei, Wang Zhilin,
Li Junwei, Zhou Fei, Hu Jing, Chen Yufang, Yang Liu, Chen Libao, Wang Banglun
and Kong Huisheng. Phone numbers of responsible personnel: 12/21/2005
Ji Qin, director of the 610 Office: 86-25-86634348, 86-25-83610656
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