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Latest News from China -- August 8, 2004

Aug. 25, 2004

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  1. [Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province] Brutal Police Torture Causes Dafa Practitioner Chen Guanghui a Severe Head Injury
  2. [Kaifeng City, Henan Province] Yang Yong in Critical Condition after Hunger Strike Protest
  3. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp Guards Threaten Practitioner Wang Huilian's Family Members
  4. [Yunnan Province] Liu Zhongming, Hao Mingxin Are Held in Yunnan Province's No. 1 Prison
  5. [Huili County, Sichuan Province] Personnel from the Hongqi Police Precinct Arrest Han Meng
  6. [Sichuan Province] Hong Yongyu Sentenced to Four and a Half Years of Imprisonment
  7. [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Arrest of Zhao Shunying by Policemen from Liushouying Town in Funing County
  8. [Hebei Province] Tangshan City Forced Labor Camp Continues to Detain and Torture Dafa Practitioners
  9. [Pingdingshan City, Henan Province] Chang Xinqin Detained at Ruzhou City's Detention Center for Distributing Truth-clarifying Materials
  10. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Phone Number of Ren Hongzan, Chief of the No.6 Team, No.1 Division in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
  11. [China] Self-immolation Incident at Tiananmen Square Was Premeditated

1. [Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province] Brutal Police Torture Causes Dafa Practitioner Chen Guanghui a Severe Head Injury

The police from Suzhou City's Prison in Jiangsu Province brutally tortured practitioner Mr. Chen Guanghui in order to force Chen to renounce Falun Dafa. Chen subsequently sustained a severe head injury. During the evening of July 29, Chen was sent to the Neurology Department of Suzhou University's No. 1 Medical Hospital for emergency treatment. He is still in a coma and the doctor issued a "critical condition" notice.

To shirk their responsibility, the police from the Suzhou City's Prison took Chen Guanghui's wife to the hospital on August 5, but did not tell her anything about her husband's condition, except that Chen just had brain surgery. Chen's head was heavily bandaged.

2. [Kaifeng City, Henan Province] Yang Yong in Critical Condition after Hunger Strike Protest

On July 8, members of the National Security Guard from Kaifeng City, Henan Province arrested practitioner Yang Yong. Since his arrest, Yang Yong has been on a hunger strike. He has been sent to Kaifeng City's Huaihe Hospital for emergency treatment. His life is in danger.

3. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp Guards Threaten Practitioner Wang Huilian's Family Members

Zhang Guimei,head of the No. 4 Division in Changchun City's Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp and guards have used all kinds of torture methods to force Ms. Wang Huilian to give up Falun Dafa.

Since Wang Huilian refused to give up her belief, the camp guards then threatened Wang Huilian's elderly parents who were ill and had come a long way to visit their daughter. The guards tried to force the elderly couple to persuade their daughter to give up Falun Dafa; otherwise they would not be permitted to see her. They even stated that they would extend Wang's prison term. The guards also used this method to threaten Wang Huilian's other relatives, friends and co-workers in an attempt to reach their goal of forcing Wang Huilian to yield.

For a long time during the hot summer, the guards did not permit Wang Huilian to take a shower or brush her teeth. The police also reduced bathroom privileges or prohibited Wang to use the restroom altogether. They also did not allow Wang to wear summer clothing, forcing Wang to wear a thick sweater during the hot summer. The National Forced Labor Regulations state, among other things that, "all detainees need to have eight hours of sleep everyday." But in the Heizuizi Force Labor Camp, detainees are forced to work during the day and can only sleep four or five hours during the night. The guards also forbid Wang to talk with other detainees. Two detainees have been ordered to monitor her on a daily basis.

4. [Yunnan Province] Liu Zhongming, Hao Mingxin Are Held in Yunnan Province's No. 1 Prison

Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Mingzhong, the former deputy chief of Kunming City's Shibo Police Department in Yunan Province is from Hualong Village, Baiyi Township, Songming County, Yunan Province. He was sentenced to three years of imprisonment for practicing Falun Gong. He has been held in the 11th Section of Yunnan Province's No.1 Prison since 2002 and has been tortured. His vertebrae were fractured when he jumped out of a building in June 2002 in an attempt to escape the persecution.

Practitioner Mr. Hao Mingxin from Yantai City, Shandong Province worked as a technician in Chengdu City's Shuangliu Airport, Sichuan Province. Officers from Kunming City's Police Department arrested him for practicing Falun Gong . He was sentenced to five years of imprisonment and was held in the Seventh Section of Yunnan Province's No.1 Prison. Hao Mingxin's sustained two fractured ribs from beatings by the savage guards in Kunming City's Detention Center.

Address of Yunan Province's No.1 Prison: Minors #8, P.O. Box 62, Kunming City (the Eighth Section of the prison) 86-871-3811874, 3845479 Ext: 2382, 2782

Minors #11 (for the 11th section of the prison)

Minors #7 (the seventh section of the prison)

Zip code: 650216

5. [Huili County, Sichuan Province] Arrest of Han Meng by Personnel from the Hongqi Police Precinct

At around 4:00 p.m. on August 4, 2004, the house of practitioner Ms. Han Meng, an employee of Huili County's Long-distance Bus Station, was ransacked and Dafa books and CDs were confiscated. The culprits are officers from the Hongqi Police Precinct. They arrested Han on August 5. The details are unclear.

6. [Sichuan Province] Hong Yongyu Sentenced to Four and a Half Years of Imprisonment

Officers from Huili County's Police Department in the Lianshan Area arrested practitioner Ms. Hong Yongyu. They found in her possession a few stickers reading, "Falun Dafa is Great." The Huili County Court sentenced her to four and a half years of imprisonment.

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Lawless official Luo Chengyu from Huili County's People's Hospital has withheld practitioner Ms. Luo Jiping's pension ever since September 2003. Luo Chengyu's phone number: 86-834-5695341

7. [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Arrest of Zhao Shunying by Policemen from Liushouying Town in Funing County

On July 19, 2004 at 11:00 p.m., Liushouying Town police precinct officials dispatched many policemen and forcibly dragged practitioner Ms. Zhao Shunying out of bed where she had been asleep and took her away. Now she is being held in Funing County's Detention Center.

Related phone numbers: Funing County's Custody Center: 86-335-6012960, 6017970

Funing County's Detention Center: 86-335-3012574

8. [Hebei Province] Tangshan City Forced Labor Camp Continues to Detain and Torture Dafa Practitioners

On July 12, 2004, two police officers were transferred from Handan City's Forced Labor Camp to Tangshan City's Forced Labor Camp to force practitioners to renounce Falun Dafa

Practitioner Zheng Hongbo from Qinhuangdao City was beaten up and had bruises all over the body. Another practitioner, Gao Guochang from Qinhuangdao City, suffered other physical punishments. He was forbidden to sleep, his limbs stretched apart on a bed, tied with ropes and subjected to other tortures in a so-called "Storm Fortification Team." Recently, the police used "reducing detention terms" as a bait to incite inmates to torture practitioners.

Phone numbers at the Forced Labor Camp:

"Storm Fortification Team": 86-315-5931139, 86-315-5931137

Wang Yong, deputy administrator of the Forced Labor Camp who is in charge of persecuting practitioners

Political instructor of the Sixth Brigade: Ai Zhenming

Head of the "610 Office (1)": Gao Yongjing

Deputy Head of the Sixth Brigade: Li Xiaozhong

9. [Pingdingshan City, Henan Province] Chang Xinqin Is Detained at Ruzhou City's Detention Center for Distributing Truth-clarifying Materials

On July 20, 2004, officers from Ruzhou City's Police Department arrested Dafa practitioner Chang Xinqin from Pingdingshan City's Foreign Language School (former Ruzhou City Normal School) for distributing truth-clarifying materials. Chang is currently being detained at Ruzhou City's Detention Center.

10. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Phone Number of Ren Hongzan, Chief of the No.6 Team, No.1 Division in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp

Dafa practitioner Ms. Gen Shufeng, over 60 years old, from Fuxin City, is detained at the No.6 Team of the No.1 Division in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. On June 9, 2004 her family went to see her, but Ren Hongzan, the chief of the No.6 Team didn't allow them to see her.

Ren Hongzan's phone number: 86-24-89210406 (Office)

11. [China] Self-immolation Incident at Tiananmen Square Was Premeditated

On January 8, 2001, my son-in-law hurried to tell me, "How come you still practice Falun Gong? On the last day of the lunar year, some Falun Gong practitioners will burn themselves at Tiananmen Square!" I said, "It's impossible! Falun Gong prohibits killing and suicide!" He said with confidence, "I heard this in Sanhe City, Hebei Province. You will believe it when the time comes." Since the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong the situation became more and more intense. All my family members were against my practice of Falun Gong. I thought they just wanted me to quit practicing for my own safety, so I didn't take it seriously. My son-in-law was an armed police officer in Beijing. His unit is located at the Great Hall of the People. After his demobilization, he still kept in touch with highly placed acquaintances in the Armed Police.

Two weeks later, on January 23, 2003, the Self-immolation Incident happened at Tiananmen Square. Since my home is only 40 kilometers away from Beijing, I heard the news that night. I was shocked! What a coincidence! The time and place were exactly the same as what my son-in-law said two weeks earlier. If I could have told people early on what my son-in-law had told me, to expose the evil early, the tragedy might have been avoided.