(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
Falun Dafa practitioner Qian Shiguang, a senior engineer for Northwest Geological Research Institute in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, was severely tortured at Beijing Police Department's Eastern Branch Detention Center, at the Tuanhe Prisoner Dispatch Center, and at the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp. Policemen instigated inmates to beat him up; strike his legs, feet and hands with the sole of a shoe; and push his head into a toilet bowl. On one occasion, the cell ringleader and another prisoner kicked his lower back with full force for about two hours. They then pushed him onto a bed board and grabbed his testicles. Whenever Qian Shiguang shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" the policemen would beat him aggressively. Policeman Yin Hongsong kept him in a dark, damp, water-supply house for over three months, during which the policemen sprayed his face with medicinal liquids classified as irritants and poured ice-cold water down his neck.
Division One of the Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp was once known as Tuanhe's "Special Guards" unit, and it is the most notorious for its brutality. The heads of this division include Yan Xiaojie, Liu Guoxi and Liu Xincheng. They use groups of up to six criminal inmates to monitor each practitioner. To protect their own interests, these inmates assist the policemen in torturing practitioners. Every practitioner is held individually in a small room and forced to sit on a miniature bench only suitable for small children. After sitting on it for several days, the practitioner's buttocks develop blisters. The heads of Division Two are Jiang Wenlai, Ni Zhenxiong, Zhao Yinbo, Song Yeming, and He Kun, all of them capable of very savage behavior. They used eight large, high-voltage electric batons to shock the sensitive body parts of practitioner Mu JunKui. Practitioner Liu Cheng was ordered to run laps, but his body had been weakened by continuous torture, and he was unable to, so policemen Ni Zhenxiong and Ji Shibing pulled him by his arms and dragged him along on the ground. The director of the Education Office in the labor camp is also a vicious man. He arranges all of the brainwashing activities in every division, and he also helped create the malicious "Legal Training Center" for physically and psychologically torturing practitioners.
Female practitioner Xi Surong, a farmer from Mucheng County, Hebei Province, was brutally tortured. In late 1999, when Xi Surong traveled to Beijing to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa, she was abducted and taken to Qianmen Police Department, her hands handcuffed behind her back. Afterwards, she was transferred to the Mucheng County Police Department. The head of Mucheng's Political Security Section, Wei Zhaotian, struck her face with a broom and put her in an iron cage in the detention center. On the 23rd of December, the month when people in China prepare to celebrate the Lunar New Year and normally the coldest time of the year, she was taken to a meeting to receive public criticism and denunciation. That night, a thug named Liu Yuancai and two accomplices slapped her, stripped her of her quilted coat and shoes and forced her to stand in a flowerbed in the yard. On the 2nd day of the fourth month of the lunar year 2004, she was abducted to the county government's facilities, where she was severely beaten until her face was swollen and numb, and she nearly lost consciousness. In July, the villains unlawfully abducted her husband, detaining him in the county government's facilities for one day. Xi Surong herself was held in a detention center for four months, until her father paid the officials 2500 yuan for her release.
Ms. Song Lixia from Kunming City, Yunnan Province, is almost 40 years old. In October 2001, she was illegally sentenced to two years of re-education through forced labor for distributing truth clarification materials related to Falun Dafa. This July, she was detained again for helping a fellow practitioner with whom she distributed truth clarification materials. The policemen were quite violent when abducting her, and the local police station later ordered an illegal search of her home to be conducted that night. They also instructed her co-workers to spy on her. On August 31, she was abducted again from her work place. Anyone with additional information about her is encouraged to further expose the injustices.
The Perpetrators and their Criminal Acts
Zhang Xinghai is the Director of the Security Division of Dongchuan District Police Department. He led policemen in abducting Falun Dafa practitioners in Kunming City, Yunnan Province. As a result of Zhang Xinghai's actions, practitioner Yao Jiali, a retiree from the local Chinese Medicine Hospital, was illegally given a two-year re-education through forced labor sentence; practitioner Liao Cunying from Shiyang Village was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor and taken to the Yunnan Women's Forced Labor Camp in Da Banqiao, Kunming City; and practitioner Gu Zonglan was abducted to Dongchuan Mushulong Detention Center on August 4 and held there for 15 days. Practitioner Tang Weiwu was abducted at 9:00 a.m. on September 9 for sending letters to the government on behalf of Falun Gong.
Xie Hongjun, Head and Party Secretary of the Yingkou City National Security Bureau, has actively implemented Jiang regime's vicious persecution policy against Falun Gong since taking office in 2001. Shortly after he assumed office, he conducted research on how to use the secret services' resources to persecute Falun Gong. Over the past several years, his fierce efforts have led to the destruction of four truth clarification material production sites in the Yingkou City area as well as the abduction and imprisonment of many practitioners. Xie also sent policemen to other areas and provinces to locate and abduct practitioners on numerous occasions.
Dong Jiaqiang, head of the "610 Office" in Hengchuan County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, spares no effort to persecute practitioners. At 9:00 p.m. on May 8, 2004, Dong Jiaqiang and his wife saw a practitioner putting up Falun Dafa truth clarification materials on the entrance to the county government building, and they asked two guards to illegally search and beat the practitioner. The next day, he brought several policemen to search the practitioner's home. Later, during this practitioner's illegally detention, Don Jiaqiang prepared reports to take credit and be rewarded for the practitioner's capture. The practitioner was released 34 days later.
Scoundrels from the West Mountain Township of Yi County in Baoding City, Hebei Province, have tortured practitioners. In the first month of the lunar year 2000, several practitioners from Yujia Village were released after being detained for traveling to Beijing to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa to government authorities. That same night, the township government and local police station sent officers to abduct them to the township government building. The head of the local "610 Office," Li Xiaolong, and the office secretary, Peng Guohui, slapped each practitioner on the face more than a dozen times. Other staff members from the "610 Office" forced Xu Zhengping, a female practitioner in her twenties, to kneel on a wooden bench in an upright position for a prolonged time. Another female practitioner, who was abducted in December 1999, was handcuffed to a cable in the backyard and beaten by four employees of the township government.
The policemen of the Taohuayuan Branch of Shandong Province's Feicheng City Police Department in Shandong Province are guilty of criminal conduct towards Falun Dafa practitioners. Policeman Liu Chuantong was once the police chief of the Yiyang Township Police Station in Feicheng City. During his tenure, many practitioners' homes were searched and their Falun Dafa books destroyed. In May 2004, he was transferred and became police chief of the Taohuayuan Branch, where he intensified persecution efforts against practitioners. Policeman Zhang Guoze of the same branch also relentlessly persecuted Dafa practitioners. His vicious acts include beating and cursing at practitioners; searching practitioners' homes; destroying Falun Dafa books, pictures of Teacher, Falun Dafa banners, signs and other materials such as flyers and CDs; assigning policemen to guard practitioners' homes; and stopping passenger buses to abduct practitioners. Another policeman from this branch, Wu Weidong, abducted practitioners with frantic zeal. He also participated in searching practitioners' homes and confiscating Falun Dafa books. He also helped to destroy large quantities of Falun Dafa books and videos. Moreover, he repeatedly abducted practitioners who refused to give up their belief. Many practitioners were fined, detained, sent to labor camps, and brainwashed.
Policeman Wei Guoqing of Mucheng County, Hebei Province, made a fortune persecuting innocent practitioners. Wei Guoqing, originally from Dawei Village in Gucheng County, is now the Deputy Police Chief of the Gucheng County Police Department. Under his direction, large numbers of practitioners were detained and brutally tortured using both Chinese and foreign, ancient and modern methods of torture. Practitioner Liu Quisheng from Qingdong Village was beaten to death. Some practitioners were sent to higher-level prisons so that local policemen could take credit and seek rewards. Furthermore, the families of practitioners who had been forced to renounce the practice or who wrote the "Guarantee Statement" had to pay the police tens of thousands of yuan, with the minimum being several thousand yuan, for their release. In total, the families of the practitioners were extorted of over one million yuan! In one instance, practitioners Zhao Xiurong and Li Lanping of Gucheng Village were abducted from their home by Wei Guoqing and his men, who did not even present police badges or warrants. The two were detained in the County Detention Center for 30 days and forced to write the "Guarantee Statement" after brutal tortures. Wei Guoqing also went to the home of another practitioner, 60-year-old Ms. Liu Huifen three times to abduct her to the Detention Center, where she was held for a month. On July 22, Wei Guoqing abducted practitioner Yu Jinzhong of Dongxu Village, Gucheng County.
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