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Latest News Regarding the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR)

Oct. 17, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhao Yueming Subjected to Brainwashing

Ms. Zhao Yueming was born in 1965, and works at the Xinjiang Agricultural University. Police officers arrested her in 2001 when she clarified the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution, and unlawfully sentenced her to three years of forced labor. She remained at the forced labor camp until June 10, 2002, when she was released on bail for medical care because the high blood pressure and heart disease that she had suffered from formerly returned after not being allowed to practice the Falun Gong exercises.

The authorities in the Xinjiang UAR have conducted many sessions for "Brainwashing Falun Gong practitioners" this year. Ms. Zhao Yueming left home twice and went into hiding to avoid the brainwashing. However, around September 5, 2004 she was once again forced into a brainwashing class set up by her work unit. Zhao Yueming is now on a hunger strike to protest the illegal persecution.

Zhao Yueming's work unit: Sports Department of Xinjiang Agricultural University

Office for the Party Committee and the President of the Xinjiang Agricultural University, 86-991-8763814, Security Division, 86-991-8762567

The True Face of the Gerontology Rehabilitation Center in Urumqi City

The Gerontology Rehabilitation Center in Urumqi City, which is located in the backyard of the Hygienic Hospital in Banfanggou Township, Urumqi City, is the central base for the brainwashing classes conducted in Xinjiang. Many brainwashing classes are held there each year. Quite a few Dafa practitioners from the XUAR were detained there for persecution.

Luo Gan's Secret Instructions to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners in Xinjiang UAR

Head of the "610 Office" Luo Gan came to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XUAR) between August 27 and 31, 2004. He secretly instructed personnel to have practitioners in Xinjiang "go through it again," and intensified the persecution against them. Right afterward, another round of a brainwashing took place in Urumqi, from September 5 to 15. Some of the practitioners were detained there to be subjected to repeated persecution.

On September 12, 2004, in Changji, Xinjiang, the authorities commenced another brainwashing class. It is known that three practitioners, Ms. Wang Xiuzhen, Ms. Li Guiying, and one other practitioner were arrested and persecuted.

Falun Gong Practitioner Chen Yujiang from Xinjiang Was Unlawfully Sentenced to Five Years of Imprisonment

Mr. Chen Yujiang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xinjiang, was discovered by a security guard of a residential community while he was posting, "Falun Dafa is Good" around Lihua Street in the Shuimogou District, Urumqi City. In the evening of March 30 2004, he was taken to the Political and Security Team of the Shuimogou District and then illegally held in the Liudaowan Detention Center. Chen Yujiang has been incarcerated, and subjected to forced labor for three years since 1999, but remains steadfast in his belief in Falun Gong. During those years he was beaten many times by the guards in the Changji Forced Labor Camp because he persists in practicing Falun Gong. In 2003, the persecutors wounded his head severely. He was sent to a hospital for emergency care. Upon intense protest from his family members, and out of fear of having to take responsibility for his condition, the labor camp authorities let his family take Mr. Chen home.

We have recently heard that Chen Yujiang was unlawfully sentenced to five years in prison. He is appealing the sentence.

Those immediately responsible in this case:

Yang Xinmin, Political and Security Section Team Leader of the Shuimogou District Police Department. Team members: Wang Jianglong and Zhang Yong (policemen)

Related units:

Shuimogou District Police Department, 86-991-4634417
Legal and Law Education Section: 86-991-4627805
Shuimogou District Court: 86-991-4628290
Office of the Chief Judge of the court: 86-991-4643206
Office of the Party Secretary: 86-991-4643420
Executive Office: 86-991-4627365
Jurisdiction Office for the Shuimogou District People's Government: 86-991-4641789
Office of the Chief Prosecutor, the Shuimogou District: 86-991-4641209
Office of the Secretary of the Party Committee: 86-991-464-3682
Executive office: 86-991-4633633

Falun Gong Practitioner Ma Jijun of Changji, Xinjiang, was Abused Until he Is Close to Death

Police took Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ma Jijun of Changji from his home on April 4, 2004 and forcibly placed him in a brainwashing class. Due to his firm belief in Falun Dafa, after the brainwashing class he was sent to a psychiatric hospital for further persecution. What happened during that period of time is not clear. In the middle of September, a family member was suddenly ordered to take him back home. His family discovered that he has been severely mistreated. Mr. Ma's once-healthy body was now very swollen and he was close to death, so the family refused to take him home. Nothing has been heard about Mr. Ma Jijun's situation for the past ten days.

Ma Jijun's older sister, Ma Jimei, is presently being unlawfully held in the Second Women's Prison of Xinjiang. Even though the police have exhausted all their tactics with her, she has refused to give up practicing Falun Dafa.

An investigation of the primary responsible guards and police who are persecuting Ma Jijun is in process.

The police department in Changji, Xinjiang is responsible for these criminal acts:
Yue Jiangmin, male, in his 40s, Deputy Leader of the National Security Team, 86-994-2355309 (home)
Ji Xiaocheng, male, in his 40s
Cai Shengfeng, male, in his 30s, is a policeman at the Yan'an Road Police Precinct, in Changji City, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners: 86-13579646999 (mobile), 86-994-2344519