(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20, 1999, Falun Gong practitioners in Shihezi City, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, have experienced severe persecution from the 610 Office and from local police. They have used a variety of means to persecute practitioners including ransacking their homes, arrest, brainwashing, detainment, forced labor, and long-term prison sentences. Presently, dozens of Dafa practitioners including Liu Huijuan, Wang Xi, Wu Shimin, Lian Xiuli, Chen Zhong, and others are still being maltreated in prison.
During the past several years, the forced-labor warrants for Falun Gong practitioners have been issued by Qiu Yanxiang, the deputy director of the Shihezi City Police Department. He was promoted to deputy secretary of the Political & Law Committee owing to his "contributions" to persecuting Falun Gong. None of the Falun Gong practitioners signed these warrants.
Additionally, the National Security Team of Shihezi City has illegally tracked Falun Gong practitioners for years, monitored their telephones, and frequently took Falun Gong practitioners away for interrogation without reason. They have no sense of the rule of law and think they can do whatever they want.
For example, a gang of policemen from Shihezi Police Department tried to intimidate Liu Huijuan. They told her that she would not be released until she wrote the three statements and openly smeared Teacher's name. She did not give in, and therefore she was sentenced to prison just because she spoke the truth about the Chinese Communist regime and why it persecutes Falun Gong practitioners.
The National Security Team led by Xu Ningdong, Li Daozhong, Wang Heping and Yang Zhijie torture Falun Gong practitioners using handcuffs and electric batons. They are so ferocious that they did not even show mercy to an practitioner in his seventies. They tortured him by handcuffing him behind his back and shocking him, and depriving him of sleep in order to force him to renounce Falun Gong. Finally, the elderly practitioner was taken to a forced labor camp for brainwashing and further persecution.
The "610 Office" of Shihezi City consisted of the Secretary of the Political & Law Committee Zhang Zushu and other staff including Wen Jianbang, Li Handong and Xue Yaojin. They forced Falun Gong practitioners to take part in the brainwashing session and restrained their personal freedom through house arrests. Falun Gong practitioners were under surveillance and were forced to watch the fabricated news aired by CCTV for brainwashing.
The "610 Office" made a lot of money from the brainwashing sessions. Each practitioner was forced to hand in 8400 yuan from his or her workplace or themselves, from which "610 Office" would keep 1000 yuan.
Wang Xi, a college teacher at Shihezi Commercial College who is presently detained in the 9th prison ward, the No.2 Jail of Xinjiang, was brutally tortured by the guards because she shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" Over the course of two years, she was handcuffed between the upper and lower tiers of a bunk bed; she was only permitted to go to bed after 2:00 a.m., and she was handcuffed again after 4:00 a.m. She was seriously injured both physically and psychologically owing to the long-term torture.
Another Falun Gong practitioner named Zhao Haijun had to become destitute and homeless because of the persecution. Recently, his wife Zhou Haixia was also arrested, which forced her to leave their two-year-old son unattended.
Guo Jingtai, a teacher at the Shihezi Tonglian Corporation affiliate school, was persecuted to the point of suffering a mental collapse by the "610 Office" since January 2003. Thereafter he suffered from an undiagnosed illness. He finally passed away on July 19, 2005.
Niu Mengling and Wu Shimin, a married couple, both were fired from East City Thermoelectricity Factory of Shihezi City for practicing Falun Dafa. Ms. Niu searches for jobs with her young child. However, the police did not show any mercy towards her. Instead, they keep tracking, monitoring and harassing her. On November 26, 2004, police officials Cao Cundong and Song Li from the National Security Team ransacked her house without a warrant and attempted to take her away. Ms. Niu fled to her younger brother's home on the sixth floor of the same building, where she was forced out of the window and died as a result of the fall. Afterwards, the two policemen distorted the facts and said that Ms. Niu committed suicide as result of practicing Falun Gong.
Persecutors in Shehezi City:
Zip Code of Shihezi City: 832000
Wen Jianbang, director of "610 Office": 86-13999736166, 86-993-7588535 or 86-993-2099399 (home), 86-993-2031788 (home)
Li Handong, deputy director of "610 Office": 86-993-2360221, 86-993-7588536 or 86-993-2066722 (home)
Xue Yaojin, Integration section of "610 Office": 86-993-2395522, 86-993-7588537 or 86-993-2099610 (home), 86-993-2093299 (home)
Chen Damin, Integration section of "610 Office": 86-993-2385008, 86-993-7588538 or 86-993-2099610 (home), 86-993-2822008 (home)
Song Li, head of National Security Team: 86-13095091438, 86-993-2913241, 86-993-2018137
Yang Zhijie, deputy head of National Security Team: 86-13899528618, 86-993-2913021, 86-993-2021486
Xu Ningdong, National Security Team: 86-993-2913021
Cao Cundong, National Security Team: 86-993-2913241
Li Daozhong, deputy director of National Security Team, 86-13519924000 (cell), 86-993-2913241, 86-993-2093261
Qiu Yanxiang, deputy secretary of Communist Party committee: 86-993-2016469
Zhang Zushu, deputy Division Commander of Nongba Divison: 86-993-2012136