(Clearwisdom.net)

Recently, Falun Dafa practitioners Feng Xiaoqi and Qu Shoucheng have each been unlawfully sentenced to fourteen years in prison by the Shuangqiao District Court in Chengde City, Hebei Province.

Officials at Beijing Women's Prison were quite embarrassed and very angry after Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yuan Lin exposed the evil acts of prison guards in Ward No. 10 of the prison, who had instigated criminal inmates to beat Falun Dafa practitioners. Ms. Yuan gave her account at a meeting with nearly a thousand attendees on May 20, 2004. Prison authorities retaliated against her for exposing the prison guards' crimes. The head of Ward No. 10 has been dismissed. In addition, higher authorities have issued orders to raise the so-called "rate of transformation" (1) in an effort to escalate the persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners.

As a result, prison officials have geared up their brainwashing efforts and other mental abuses against steadfast practitioners who have refused to be "transformed." For example, these practitioners can spend no more than ten minutes talking to other Falun Gong students. They have to attend a number of brainwashing sessions and meetings after finishing forced labor assignments. They have been inundated by fabricated accusations against Falun Gong and defamatory attacks against their Teacher. In this oppressive atmosphere, they suffer severe mental and physical abuses.

Ms. Yang Xiaojie is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Xizhaozhuang Village in Chengguan Town, Shenze County, Hebei Province. On August 7, she was arrested by officers from the Zexi Police Station while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials to the public. Ms. Yang has been taken to the Renqiu Detention Centre. All Falun Dafa practitioners in the county have been intensifying their efforts in sending forth righteous thoughts.

Xinzhou District is in the suburb of Wuhan City, Hubei Province. On July 10, Huang Changyi, Deputy Party Secretary of the Yangluo Neighborhood Administration, led Lin Xiwang, Zhou Youxi and others to abduct Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lei Sheng and take him to a brainwashing unit in Liuji, Xinzhou District. On August 6, over twenty officers from the Jiujie Police Station took Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lin Weizhong from Xinji Town to the Liuji brainwashing unit. Both practitioners refused to cooperate with the persecution and went on a hunger strike. They were brutally tortured and force-fed. Both remain in weak physical condition.

Ms. Wu Zhenju from Yangluo Street and Mr. Ding Ruliang from Sandian Street, along with other Falun Dafa practitioners, have also been taken to the Liuji brainwashing unit. This August was the second time that Mr. Ding was taken into custody. Two other practitioners, Ms. Hong Guizhen and Ms. Chen Lihong, were arrested and sent to the Wuhan Detention Center for removing banners and slogans defaming Falun Dafa and its Teacher.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Country code: 86; City code: 27
Liu Junshun, Party Secretary of the Xinzhou District "610 Office": 86925760
Wang Zhoumin, Director of the district's "610 Office": 86918558
Zhu Huoming, physician in charge of force-feeding at the district's "610 Office": 86-13886052282 (cellular)
Li Baosong, Director of the Jiujie Neighborhood Administration Office: 86-13307132336 (cellular)
Huang Changyi, Deputy Party Secretary of the Yangluo Neighborhood Administration Office: 86963650
Liuji Brainwashing Unit in Xinzhou District, Wuhan City: 89132610
Zhou Yingjie, leader of the Liuji brainwashing unit
Qiu Pingsheng and Chen Guangsheng, personnel in the Liuji brainwashing unit

Around 6:00 p.m. on July 13, 2004, six police vehicles arrived at Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yan Aizhi's home. Over twenty people, including officers from Zhangjiakou City, Wanquan County, the Kongjiazhuang Police Station, and the Taishizhuang Village Party Committee, besieged and then ransacked Ms. Yan's home. Ms Yan was not at home at the time. They forcefully restrained and threatened Ms. Yan's daughter Zhang Baozhen in order to locate her mother. After being taken into a police vehicle, Ms. Zhang was so terrified and that she injured herself, which almost cost her her life.

The officers confiscated a VCR, a copier, and Falun Dafa books. They also sent people to harass Ms. Yan's mother and her other relatives and friends. Officials have staked out these homes in order to capture Ms. Yan, who has been forced to leave town and become homeless.

Around 10:00 a.m. on July 9, 2004, Chen Ying, director of the Linghai City Real Estate Property Management Office, called Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Liang and asked him to come to the property division office to discuss his promotion to assistant engineer. Wang Jinwen, head of the property division, was the next person who met with Mr. Zhao, although the details of their conversation were not available. As soon as Mr. Zhao came downstairs after the meeting, the police, led by Deputy Head of the Linghai City State Security Unit Zhang Zhixin, arrested him. The police immediately went to Mr. Zhao's home and confiscated a personal computer and a printer. Mr. Zhao Liang has been sentenced to forced labor.

Telephone numbers of responsible officials:
Wang Jinwen: 86-416-8139838 (home), 86-13841653888 (cellular)
Chen Ying: 86-416-8136368 (home), 86-13840623777 (cellular)

On July 19, 2004, a large of group of officers went to Falun Dafa practitioners' homes and took them into custody. Those abducted include Ms. Zen Jierong in Foshan, Guangdong Province, who is in her fifties; Ms. Xiao Qiongxiu, also in Foshan; and a female practitioner in Nanhai, Guangdong Province. Another practitioner, Ms. Liang Jinjia, a construction and decoration worker, was abducted from her workplace. As of this writing, these four practitioners have been held at a brainwashing unit for over twenty days.

(1) "Rate of transformation" refers to the number of practitioners who are forced to renounce Falun Dafa under torture and brainwashing.

August 18, 2004