June 2, 2002

(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20^th, 1999, criminal mobs in Hebei Province's Xinle City have persecuted Falun Dafa practitioners.

Since July 20^th, 1999, criminal policemen have arrested a lot of Dafa practitioners who went to appeal for Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, and illegally detained them in the Xinle Detention Center. At the time of all so-called "sensitive dates" they would illegally arrest, without due cause, those practitioners who were on their "black list" and fine practitioners large sums of money without issuing any receipts. [Note: "Sensitive dates" are days when a political anniversary or a national holiday is celebrated, or an incident concerning the whole country is observed, or dignitaries are visiting certain areas].

Below are the crimes that Bai Wansheng, director of the Police Department and chief of the "610 Office" has committed. [The "610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.]

• In 2000, while driving two elderly practitioners who had gone to Beijing to validate Dafa back to their hometown, Bai Wansheng verbally abused them with nasty words, and inhumanly put the two elderly persons into the narrow space in the back of the car while the car kept bumping along for over 200 kilometers.

• In the winter of 2000, a practitioner whose family name is Guan was arrested one day before he planned to go to Beijing to appeal for Dafa because someone leaked the news. The winter of that year was extremely cold. Bai Wansheng personally instructed the policemen to remove the clothes of the practitioner. Left only with his underwear, they forced the practitioner to bend over on the icy cold snow-covered field, turned a hose on him and poured water over his whole body. He then forced the practitioner to stand on an iron board, which had been heated to become red-hot, and continued beating him.

• He has ordered sweeping searches to arrest steadfast practitioners who had been forced to leave home to avoid further persecution. He has also detained a female practitioner for nine months without any valid reason.

• He has illegally sent three practitioners to Forced Labor Re-education; he has detained practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong for months and abused or mistreated them by either brainwashing, fining, or sending them to forced labor "re-education." He threatened a practitioner who had been beaten nearly to death, telling him, "Keep silent! Don't say you have been beaten by the police."

• On June 14, 2001 he illegally searched Dafa practitioners' homes without providing valid reasons, forcibly took the practitioners away and illegally detained them.

• Some Dafa practitioners have been illegally detained many times. Lu Maocai was fined 7,000 Yuan [about US$845]. Ms. Zhang Yongqin was fined 4,000 Yuan [about US$480]. Wang Guanjun was fined a total of 4,000 Yuan. [Note: The monthly income in rural China is about 200 Yuan per month or $23.50]

Bai Wansheng and others are fearful of their crimes being exposed. All the above crimes against Dafa practitioners were committed under the instruction and participation of Zhang Xiaorong, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of Xinle City, Bai Wansheng, director of the Police Department, and also Ding Jiansheng, Chief of the "610 Office."