(Clearwisdom.net)

This group of pictures shows the outside of Qingdao City's current brainwashing center. The city's 610 Office, located on 34 Mingxia Road in the North District of Qingdao City, Shandong Province, is responsible for this center. To hide its true identity, signs were hung up in front of the entrance, which say "Qingdao City Massage Instruction Center for People with Visual Impairment" and "National Appraisal Center for Professional Skills." However, none of these places exist. All of the windows are equipped with strong steel railings.

Most of the Falun Dafa practitioners who are detained in the brainwashing center were arrested and sent there by police stations in Qingdao City and the surrounding districts, towns, and counties. There are also some practitioners who were transferred here for further persecution when they completed their terms in other forced labor camps. Since 2002, Qingdao City has been accepting practitioners who have completed their terms at other forced labor camps. People from the 610 Office send them directly to the brainwashing center, where they are required to stay at least one month.

When Licang District's practitioner Ms. Gao Mingxia was illegally sent to the local forced labor camp for the second time, the authorities there was afraid that she would affect the people who had given in to the brainwashing, and they initially refused to accept her. The Qingdao City 610 Office then sent a valuable gift to bribe the officials of the forced labor camp. Later on, Ms. Gao was sent to the brainwashing center for 11 months. In April or May 2004, Ms. Gao was again sent to the forced labor camp.

The staff at the 610 Office said that when the police department intends to persecute certain practitioners for a criminal prosecution without any evidence, they can just send the practitioners to the brainwashing center and let the brainwashing center take care of the responsibility for detention. This can be done because the brainwashing center can detain anyone without reason, and there is also no limit on the duration of the detention. Evidence is required to put someone in criminal detention, and the duration of detention can't exceed one month. While the victim is being detained, the police department then takes its time to search for so-called "evidence." After they find some so-called "evidence," they will send the practitioners from the brainwashing center directly to a forced labor camp or prison. This happened in the case of practitioner Ms. Su Jun, who was arrested after being illegally detained at the brainwashing center for a few months. She is imprisoned at the Qingdao City Dashan Detention Center to this day. Ms. Tian Xiulan and other practitioners were also sent to the forced labor camp after they were seized from the brainwashing center. Tan Hongrang, Wang Taojing, and other practitioners are still being detained at the brainwashing center.

Wang Hongjun, the former No. 2 Division Manager of the Qingdao City Police Department, and Geng Shixiang, the former Associate General Secretary of Qingdao City's North District Political and Juridical Committee, are the leaders of the Qingdao City 610 Office.

Geng has openly said to Falun Gong practitioners that every year the rental expenses for the brainwashing center costs the state almost 100,000 yuan.

The 610 Office has established branch offices in each district and county in Qingdao City. Cadres who specialize in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners often came to these offices to learn how to persecute practitioners and Falun Gong.

Geng Shixiang, a 58-year-old male, is the former Associate General Secretary of Qingdao City's North District Political and Judical Committee. His wife, Chen Jing, is a Qingdao City Central Hearing Impairment School retired teacher, and she has negative opinions towards Falun Dafa as well. Since June 10, 1999, Geng has been the Qingdao City's North District 610 Office manager, and he has set up brainwashing centers at the Fushanhou Taoyuan Hotel, Shaoxing Road Militia Training Base, Jiaoliu Hotel, and other places, where he has detained practitioners who hold on to their beliefs. Since July 20, 1999, the Qingdao City's North District has been the district where practitioners are persecuted most severely. He received so much credit for forcing practitioners to renounce their beliefs through persecution that the Qingdao City 610 Office hired him again after he retired in 2001. For the time being, he still often sets up brainwashing sessions at 34 Mingxia Road in Qingdao City and continues to persecute practitioners. As one of the people directly in charge of the city 610 Office, he is directly or indirectly associated with all the illegal cases of sentencing, including sentences to forced labor camps and the detaining of Falun Gong practitioners.

The number of practitioners known to have been persecuted to death in Qingdao City has reached 25. In addition to the 23 deaths already published on the Internet, Wang Lei and Liu Su'e have also died as a result of the persecution. The details in their cases are being confirmed. In Qingdao City alone, over 20 practitioners have been illegally sentenced. Among them, many people received seven-to-ten-year sentences. The number of people who have been detained at the forced labor camp has reached 100, and almost every practitioner in the area has been illegally detained, detained in police custody, or received forced brainwashing. Many of them have been detained and forced to receive brainwashing sessions many times.

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