[Beijing] Haidian Police
Station is jailing practitioners by filling the quota
The Haidian Police Station received a quota of 100 people to be used to sentence Falun
Gong practitioners in Haidian District of Beijing City. The police have already started to
arrest practitioners. Other districts and counties in Beijing City may also do the same
thing.
To avoid the persecutions, some practitioners ran away from home. The homes of some
practitioners were ransacked right after they left.
[Shandong Province] The second coal mine of Jining City detain
practitioners in private jail
On May 10, 2000, the second coal mine of Jining City of Shandong Province made a private
jail using the three apartments in the Dorm # 1 for female employees in the north region
of the coal mine. On each side of the corridor outside the three apartments, an iron door
was erected. The private jail has been used to detained local practitioners of Falun Gong.
Three female practitioners have been detained in this private jail. Immediately after the
jail was made, a practitioner who surname was Sun was thrown into it. She was detained
there from May 10 to 18, and afterwards, she was sent to the Jining Detention Center to
serve one month of criminal detention. After she finished the detention term, the
communist authorities in the coal mine threw her into the private jail again, and detained
her there from June 21 to July 20, 2000. During this period, Ms. Sun protested many times.
In the end, she was freed after four days of hunger strike. After she went home, she was
under surveillance 24 hours a day.
After that, a practitioner whose surname was Jia got detained in the private jail for 40
days. A practitioner whose surname was Han was detained there for four days. Both were
released because they staged hunger strikes.
While being illegally detained, all the three practitioners protested strongly to the
communist officials. Once a practitioners told an official: "We practice Falun Gong
to become good people." the official replied: "China does not need good people
and the second coal mine does not need good people either." Then the practitioner
said: "What you are doing violated the law." That official said: "We are
not afraid of violating the law because we are implementing orders from higher
authorities."
The following is a picture of the private jail. http://www.minghui.ca/gb/0001/Aug/20/w2.jpg
[Gansu Province] Severe human rights violations committed by the
police department in Yongjing County
The police department in Yongjing County of Gansu Province has been cruelly persecuting
local Falun Gong practitioners.
On January 6, 2000, the police arrested 10 practitioners from Yanguoxia and Sanyuan etc.
without any justification. They detained the practitioners illegally for 110 days. In the
detention center, some practitioners were put on handcuffs and shackles. Their hands and
feet were bleeding because of the frictions of handcuffs and shackles. The food given to
them was terrible, and they were forced to do very heavy labor.
In addition, they often suffered verbal and physical abuses from police. In particular,
the head of the detention center whose surname was Wu often beat practitioners after he
got drunk. He even claimed: "It doesn't matter if I beat a couple of them to
death!" To protest the inhumane mistreatments, a practitioner got on a hunger strike.
Wu then force-fed the practitioner after opening the practitioner's mouth forcefully by a
big iron slice. The practitioner's face was seriously wounded.
In July 2000, the police department threw these 10 practitioners into jail. We hope the
world could pay attention to the severe human rights violations against these innocent
practitioners.
[Wuhan City] A former cancer patient sentenced with forced labor for
practicing Falun Gong
Wang Li, female, 31, Bachelor degree. She lived in the Huaqiao Street of Wuhan City before
being sentenced. In 1987, she got cancer, and underwent two surgeries in the Tongji
Hospital of Wuhan City. She also went through 10 chemical treatments. But her situation
was not alleviated. After she started to practice Falun Gong in 1993, she recovered
gradually.
On July 22, 1999, the Chinese government banned Falun Gong. On July 23, 1999, Wang Li went
to Beijing to petition the government to correct its wrong decision. In September 1999,
she was taken back to Wuhan City. In March 2000, she was forced to attend the
"re-education class". On April 2, 2000, she was sent to the Hewan Labor Camp to
serve one year of forced labor. Ironically, the signboard of the labor camp read
"Fashion Clothes Factory of Wuhan City", which was used to deceive people.
Wang Li and fellow practitioners detained in the labor camp suffered inhumane treatments.
They were not given enough food, but they were forced to work, on average, more than 18
hours everyday. In their limited spare time, they were forced to study the
"educational materials". If they did not cooperate, they would be thrown into
small cells and be hung up and beaten. Every morning, each of them was only given a cup of
porridge with a countable number of rice grains. For lunch and dinner, they were given 50
grams of rice, and a bowl of salt water, occasionally with a few pieces of vegetables.
Their family members were allowed to visit them only once a month. Each time, they were
only allowed to see their loved ones for 10 minutes. The food brought by the family
members must be eaten on spot and was not allowed to be brought back to the cells. The
workloads assigned to them were so heavy that they could hardly finish them. So they were
often forced to work extra hours. In every month, there were always a couple of days that
they had to work 24 hours a day. Although it was very hot and humid, they hardly had time
to take a break or wash themselves. Whenever they finished the labor, they would fall
asleep immediately. Because they did not have enough food while doing the extremely
demanding labor, they became very weak. Wang Li weighted about 85 pounds before she was
sentenced. But after five months of hard labor, she only weighted 60 pounds.
Currently, the Hewan Detention Center and the Drug Stopping Center of Wuhan City are
detaining about 50 practitioners. Some of them were misled by the secret agents pretending
to be practitioners, and have written pledges to recant. So they do not need to do forced
labor now. But other practitioners are still suffering inhumane mistreatments.
[Chengdu City]
Liu Hui, female. She was arrested by Xiangnong Police Station on July 18, 2000 under the
charge of "distributing fliers in Yingmenkou area". Later she was sent to the
second detention center of Chengdu City.
The reason for Liu's arrest was as follows. On July 12, 2000, she went to the Disciplinary
Office of the Police Department of Chengdu City to file an appeal on the various
mistreatments committed by Xiangnong Police Station against local practitioners. An
officer called Wang in the Disciplinary Office made a record of practitioners Liu's
appeal. After that, he asked Liu to submit a detailed record for further handling. Thus
Ms. Liu had the materials typed and printed into a formal file. However, the file was then
transferred to Xiangnong Police Station by the police from the Yingmenkou Police Station.
As a result, Ms. Liu was arrested with the fabricated charge.
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