(Clearwisdom.net)

Ever since July 20, 1999, Dafa practitioners from the Tangwanghe District of Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province have suffered from severe persecution. Thirty Dafa practitioners have been detained, fourteen were sentenced to forced labor education (two of them were sentenced twice), and one practitioner was persecuted to death. Seven practitioners are still being detained. They and their family members have been badly hurt by and suffered greatly from the persecution. The following is a brief description of some of these cases.

1. Ms. Chen Guiqin, 58 years old, was a teacher at the First Elementary School of the Tangwanghe District. After July 20, 1999, officers from the local public security bureau, the national security bureau, the government, her work unit and the area of her residence frequently went to her home to harass her. In December 1999, together with a fellow practitioner Ms. Guo Yuexia, she went to the Women's Federation in Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. She was arrested and taken to the Liaison Office of Heilongjiang Province in Beijing.

Local policemen Yang Xuejian and Jing Xiangguang then escorted her from Beijing to her hometown. On the way, Yang Xuejian extorted 1,000 yuan from her. Upon arrival in her hometown she was held in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for 15 days. The headmaster of the First Elementary School, Lang Zhanjun, deducted 800 yuan from her pension and, as a pledge to prevent her from appealing for Falun Gong in the future, deducted 100 yuan from her pension each month (at a later date, her family members recovered 900 yuan of the pledge).

One day in 2000, just 3 days before the Chinese New Year, Jiang Wei and Yuan Guofeng led more than ten policemen to scale the yard walls, break into Ms. Chen's house and confiscate many personal items without any legal justification. Once again, Ms. Chen was placed under arrest for 15 days.

In December 2000, together with some fellow practitioners, Ms. Chen went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. Halfway there, she was arrested, sent back and detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center and then in the Detention Center of the Xinqing District.

In the summer of that year, a practitioner posted some banners saying, "Falun Gong is good" in the Tangwanghe district. The local police failed to find out who posted them. A group of police officers led by Jiang Wei, the vice bureau chief, took Ms. Chen from the detention center to the local public security bureau to try to force her to "confess" that she had written and posted the banners. Jiang Wei insisted that she had done it because a handwriting analyst, whom he invited from Yichun City, determined the writing was hers. The policemen spent a whole night trying to extort a confession from her. The next morning, they kept on torturing her.

A female police officer, Wen Xiaohui, beat her down to the ground and then pulled her up by her hair. She was tortured using "Body Folding." (1) She was also forced to hold a flask full of boiled water, with her arms straight out in front of her. In the meantime, Wen Xiaohui forbade her from eating and drinking. They even threatened that if Ms. Chen did not confess, she would be thrown off the mountain and killed.

Policewoman Huang Yan from the detention center said to her: "You'd better acknowledge it. It is you if you acknowledge it, and it will also be you even if you do not acknowledge it." Ms. Chen succumbed to the torture and, under coercion, "confessed" that she had written the banners. The policemen immediately went to her home and confiscated her children's crayons, calling them "evidence."

She was sentenced to two years of labor education and was sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City, where her physical condition gradually deteriorated.

She was extremely weak when she was released. The police kept harassing her at home causing her health to deteriorate further. She died on January 6, 2004. Many people grieved because of her death.

2. Ms. Guo Yuexia, 45 years old, was a self-employed laborer. She had a grocery shop in the Erlongshan Forest Center of Tangwanghe district. After July 20, 1999, local policeman Li Gang frequently harassed her. In December 1999, after she and Ms. Chen Guiqin were arrested for going to the Women's Federation in Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong, she was escorted back to her hometown by local policemen Yang Xuejian and Jing Xiangguang. On the way, Yang Xuejian extorted 1,000 yuan from her. After that she was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for 15 days. After she was released, the head of the Erlongshan Forest Center, Guo Wensheng, forced her to close her grocery shop, which made her lose her livelihood. At the end of 2000, Ms. Guo went to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Gong along with several other practitioners. On the way there, they were arrested and sent back. She was then sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City for forced labor for 1.5 years. Since she was released from the labor camp, she has been forced to remain homeless to avoid recapture and further persecution.

3. Mr. He Dehou was 62 years old. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, officers from the local public security bureau, the national security bureau, the government, his work unit and the area of his residence, frequently ransacked his home and harassed him.

One day in 2000, just 3 days before the Chinese New Year, local policemen Jiang Wei, Yuan Guofeng, and several others arrested Mr. He for no legal reason. He was then detained in the Xinqing District Detention Center for 15 days. They extorted 5,000 yuan from him as a pledge to prevent him from clarifying the truth about Falun Gong in the future.

In December 2000, he went to Shandong Province to see his relatives. Some of his family members were arrested when they went to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. The policemen in his hometown immediately sent a fax to Shandong. He was then arrested by police in Shandong and detained in the Yuncheng City Detention Center for 7 days. During this time the inmates beat him and money was extorted from him. After that, policemen Zhang Xiaozhe and Jing Xiangguang escorted him back to the local police station. On the way, they extorted 900 yuan from him.

He Dehou was held in the local police station for more than 4 months. While there, he was forced to sit in an iron chair for 72 hours. After he was released, the police extorted another 2,500 yuan from him.

4. Ms. Li Yunzhi, 40 years old, was a teacher from the Xinglong Middle School of Bayan County, Heilongjiang Province before the persecution started. One day in January 2000, she practiced the Falun Gong exercises together with six other Dafa practitioners in front of the biggest department store in Xinglong town. The local police arrested and detained them in the Xinglong Detention Center for ten days.

After the Chinese New Year, some Dafa practitioners went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong. The policemen from the Xinglong town police station then transferred her to a brainwashing center in the Detention Center of Bayan County, where they cuffed her feet for 10 days. She was held there until April 2000, and was released after she went on a 3-day hunger strike together with other Dafa practitioners.

Upon her release the police extorted 500 yuan from her. After that the headmaster of the Xinglong Middle School, Meng Guangyi, prevented her from working in her school, thus depriving her of her livelihood and forcing her to go back to Tangwanghe.

In July 2000, policeman Cui Chongfeng saw Ms. Li when she was staying with another practitioner. She was immediately arrested and her home was ransacked. After that she was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center. Ding Ruqiang, the head of the Hebei police station, using the excuse that she was not a local resident, transferred her to the Bayan County Detention Center where she and other practitioners once again went on a hunger strike. Consequently, they were violently force-fed. The police at the Detention Center of Bayan County didn't release her until the end of October, after failing to extort money from her family members.

In January 2001, local policeman Wang Fuqiang ransacked her home and, while doing so, found her solemn statement declaring her steadfast cultivation in Dafa. He once again arrested her and detained her in the Tangwanghe District Detention Center for 4 months.

5. Mr. Sun Jiadong, 40 years old, was a policeman from the Hebei Police Station in the Tangwanghe District. His wife, Ms. Zhou Jingqiu, was also a Dafa practitioner and worked in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the Tangwanghe District. In May 2001, she was arrested when she was clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa and was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for 15 days. In February 2002, the couple was arrested when they were distributing truth-clarification materials. They were sentenced to 3 years of forced labor. Mr. Sun was held in the Suihua Labor Camp, and Ms. Zhou was held in the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City, leaving their only son, who was around 13-years-old, without any care. The son was later sent to his aunt, who lived far away, to be brought up.

6. Ms. He Chunliu was 35 years old. One day in 2000, just three days before the Chinese New Year, Jiang Wei, Yuan Guofeng, and other policemen arrested her at her home. She was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for 15 days. The police extorted 1,000 yuan from her as a "guarantee."

In December 2000, Ms. He went to Beijing together with several other fellow practitioners to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. On the way, they were arrested and taken back to their hometown, where they were held in the Tangwanghe Detention Center.

The police publicly humiliated them, parading them through the streets along with criminals who had been convicted of homicide. In a public trial, Ms. He loudly shouted: "Falun Dafa is good!" The policemen attacked her. They took off her cotton-padded clothes, bound her hands behind her back, and violently paraded her through the streets in the freezing cold when the temperature was minus 40 degrees. She was then sent back to the detention center, where she was handcuffed to an iron door for 24 hours per orders from policeman Yuan Guofeng. Later she was transferred to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City, where she was sentenced to 1 year of forced labor education.

7. Mr. Liu Shiguang was 40 years old. In December 2000 policemen arrested him when he and some fellow practitioners were on their way to Beijing to appeal against the persecution Falun Gong. His head was injured when policemen cruelly beat him. Later, he was detained for 4 months in the Xinqing District Detention Center and the Tangwanghe Detention Center. In the autumn of 2001, someone reported him to the police for having Dafa materials in his home. Policemen then ransacked his home and detained him for 15 days. In March 2004, someone posted Dafa slogans on the gate of the home of the head of the Tangwanghe Forestry Bureau, Liu Guoqing. The policemen failed to find out who had done it, so they blamed it on Mr. Liu Shiguang. He was sentenced to forced labor education for 1.5 years and was sent to the Suihua Labor Camp.

8. Mr. He Chunlei was 32 years old. One night in 2000, just three days before the Chinese New Year, Jiang Wei, Yuan Guofeng, and other policemen broke into his home, arrested him and detained him in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for 15 days. He was released only after he had paid the police "guarantee" money of 1,000 yuan.

In December 2000, local policemen arrested him when he was halfway to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. He was with several fellow practitioners.

In the Tangwanghe District Police Station he was forced to sit on an iron bench for 72 hours. Policeman Hao Chunxiaohe beat him cruelly and then cuffed him to an iron door for one night. The police publicly paraded him through the streets together with criminals who had been convicted of homicide. Later he was sentenced to 1 year of forced labor and was sent to the Yichun Labor Camp.

9. Mr. Zhou Guishan was 32 years old. In January 2001, he went to Beijing with some local practitioners to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. He was arrested and escorted to the local police station. Because he was steadfast in his cultivation in Dafa, he was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for about 10 days and the police extorted 5,000 yuan from him.

10. Ms. Tian Xiaoqin was in her 50s. In December 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong, along with some fellow practitioners. On the way there, the local police arrested her, and she was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for more than half a month. She was released only after the police extorted 5,000 yuan from her as a pledge.

11. Mr. Zhu Youqi was 34 years old. In December 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong, along with some fellow practitioners. The local police arrested him along the way. Yang Xuejian and several other policemen beat him. Later, he was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for 4 months.

12. Ms. Liu Yarong was 53 years old. She was arrested just three days before the Chinese New Year in 2000 because she was a practitioner. Ding Ruqiang, the head of the Hebei Police Station, abused and threatened her and she was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for 48 hours, which seriously interrupted her normal work.

13. Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Chun was 53 years old. On the second day of the Chinese New Year of 2001, he went to the Jinshantun District of Yichun City to visit his mother. Since he didn't ask for leave in advance as the police had ordered him to do, the police forced him to leave the train before it got underway. After arriving home, Ding Ruqiang, the director of Hebei Police Station, went to his home and tricked him into going to the police station. Influenced by Zhang Jizhong, the secretary of the Political and Judicial Committee, Ding sent him to Tangwanghe Detention Center for forty-eight hours of detention, and forced him to pay 3,000 yuan as pledge money.

14. Dafa practitioner Ms. Zheng Yuqin was 55 years old. In March 2002, policemen Zhao Yunhua and Ding Ruqiang arrested her at her home because she was handing out truth-clarifying materials. She was sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City for a two-year term of forced labor. On November 21, 2004, after she was released, policeman Li Jianmin unexpectedly broke into her home. After finding a Dafa book on her bed, he arrested her, took her to the Hebei Police Station and sent her again to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City for another two-year term of forced labor. However, the Center refused to receive her and she was taken home.

15. Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Guihua, 48 years old, was a retired teacher from the Third Elementary School of Tangwanghe District. After July 20, 1999, the school put Ms. Chen's residence under surveillance.

In July 2000, Ms. Chen went back to the Jinshandun District of Yichun City to see her mother. Upon learning of this, the Henan Police Station sent policemen, Li Yunfeng and Liu Deshun, to the Jinshandun District that very night by taxi. They rushed into Ms. Chen's mother's home and forcibly took Ms. Chen back to the Henan Police Station in Tangwanghe. Zhang Mingwen, the director of the station, Li Yunfeng, and Liu Deshun demanded that she give them 500 yuan as the fee for the taxi. If she didn't give it to them, they threatened to send her to a detention center. Ms. Chen protested against their actions, so they forced her to sit on an "iron bench." As she firmly resisted, her arms were bruised in many places. Later, a family member went home to get 500 yuan to give them. She was then released.

16. Dafa practitioner Ms. Zheng Chunyan, about 45 years old, was a teacher at the Second High School of the Tangwanghe District. In March of 2000, because she was handing out truth clarifying materials, her home was searched and she was detained for 15 days. On the morning of November 21, 2004, when she was teaching in a classroom, the police from the Henan Police Station arrested her without reason. Policemen then stationed themselves around her house to watch for people coming there. After a family member came home at noon, the police searched her home. Ms. Zheng was detained for one day and one night in the Henan Police Station. The next day she was sent to the Tangwanghe detention center. Soon afterward, she was sentenced to a labor camp for 1.5 years. The police denied Ms. Zheng's request for an appeal and quietly sent her to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City .

17. Dafa practitioner Ms. Wu Shuzhen, 54 years old, was a retired teacher from the First Elementary School of Tangwanghe. In August 2004, someone informed the police that she was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. She was detained for two months in the Tangwanghe Detention Center. Then she was sentenced to one-and-a-half years of forced labor and sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City to serve her term.

18. Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Yunhua was 48 years old. In December of 2000, when she was on her way to Beijing with fellow practitioners to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong, the police arrested her and sent her back. Jiang Wei, the vice-director of Tangwanghe Police Department, cursed and cruelly beat her. Her breasts were covered with black bruises from Jiang's beating.

She was detained for more than 4 months in the Tangwanghe Detention Center. In the spring of 2002, she was reported for clarifying the truth. Police from the Hebei Police Station kidnapped her and detained her there for twenty-four hours.

In August of 2004, while clarifying the truth, a policeman who was lying in wait for Dafa practitioners arrested her. After being detained for two months in the Tangwanghe Detention Center, she was sentenced to three years of forced labor and sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City to serve her term.

19. Dafa practitioner Han Jiling, over 40 years old, was a teacher at the First High School of Tangwanghe. In March of 2002, she was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor and sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City to serve her term.

20. Dafa practitioner Ms. He Chunyuan was 27 years old. Three days before the Spring Festival of 2000, policemen Jiang Wei, Yuan Guofeng and others rushed into her home and arrested her. That night, in the patrol team section of the police department, they cuffed her hands and tied her to an iron bed. Then they transferred her to the Tangwanghe Detention Center and detained her for 4 months. In May of 2002, the Henan Police Station of Tangwanghe extorted 1,000 yuan from her.

21. Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiaoling was 35 years old. In the spring of 2003, the police from the Henan Police Station arrested him and sent him to the Tangwanghe Detention Center. After being detained there, he was transferred to the Yichun City Brainwashing Center and detained there for 3 months. The Center extorted more than 2,000 yuan from him.

22. Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Yue was about 65 years old. In the fall of 2000, she was arrested while going from Tianjin to Beijing for an appeal. She was detained in a detention center in Tianjin. Then the Tangwanghe Police Department took her back and detained for more than ten days in the Tangwanghe Detention Center. In the spring of 2002, she was detained again in Tianjin.

23. Dafa practitioner Mr. Men Qiuyin was about 40 years old. In 2002, the police searched his home and found his only copy of a Dafa book. He was sentenced for three-years of forced labor and sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Center of Harbin City to serve his term.

24. Dafa practitioner Ms. He Chunxiu was 29 years old. In the evening three days before the Spring Festival of 2000, policemen Jiang Wei, Yuan Guofeng and others rushed into her home and arrested her. In the criminal police team section of the police department, they tied her to an "iron bench" for a whole night. They released her the following afternoon. In July of 2000, she was arrested again and detained for 20 days. Yang Wenliang, the director of the Police Department, extorted 1,000 yuan from her as bail and then released her. In December of 2000, the local police arrested her when she was on her way to Beijing for to appeal along with fellow practitioners. They brought her back, beat her and sentenced her to a one-year term in the Yichun City Labor Camp.

25. Dafa practitioner Mr. Shen Zhili was 66 years old. In March of 2004, he was implicated when other Dafa Disciples were arrested. Policemen from Henan Police Station arrested him and detained him in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for 15 days.

26. Dafa practitioner Ms. Yu was about 63 years old. In the fall of 2002, policemen from Hebei Police Station arrested her and searched her home. She was sent to the Tangwanghe Detention Center and detained there for over one month. In August 2004, the police arrested her while she was clarifying the truth. She was detained in the Tangwanghe Detention Center for more than ten days. In October 2004, police from the Hebei Police Station searched her home again, using the pretext that they thought she had Dafa books there.

The following is a list of names of those policemen who took part in the persecution:

(Note: Please dial the country code + the area code + the phone number, except for cell phones. For cell phones, please dial the country code + the cell phone number. Country code: 86, area code: 458)

The 610 Office of Tangwanghe District
Director, Geng Weimin, 3530971 (Office), 3533606 (Home), 13329383699 (Cell)
The Tangwanghe Police Department, phone: 3532803
Former Director, Yang Wenliang , now the Director of the Tieli City Police Department
The department phone: 2283200
Present Director, Liu Yongjiu
Former vice-director, Li Guangfu, now works in the Cuiluan District Police Department at Yichun City
Former vice-director, Jiang Wei, now vice-director of Tangwanghe Court
The court phone: 353806, 13845819188 (Cell)
Vice-director Yuan Guofeng
Political Commissar, Wang Changrong
Shao Liwei, director of the 610 Office of the Police Department: 3536107 (Office), 13846626388 (Cell)
Wen Xiaohui (female), worker in the 610 Office of the Police Department
Policemen Yang Xuejian and Jing Xiangguang, National Guard Brigade of the Police Department
The Henan Police Station of Tangwanghe District
Zhang Mingwen, director: 3539110 (Office), 13846649788 (Cell)
Policemen Cui Chongfeng, Li Gang (now transferred to the criminal police brigade of the police department) police station phone: 3533404
The Hebei Police Station of the Tangwanghe District
Ding Ruqiang, director. Station phone number: 3531313
Li Yunfeng, vice-director
Policeman Li Jianmin: 13845853771 (Cell)
The Tangwanghe Detention Center
Former director, Ma Dongshan (now transferred to the Tangwanghe Forest Protecting Section)
Director Jiang Mingshan
Phone number of the Center: 3531187
Vice-director Hao Chunxiao
The zip code for the Tangwanghe District of Yichun City is 153037

(1) "Body-folding": a torture method. It refers to standing with two legs straight and close, and bending the head down as far as it will go toward the feet, in front of the knees. The fingers point to the ground, the head is upside down, making the body form a 90-degree angle. The victim is forced to keep this position for 17 to 18 hours a day except when eating, sleeping and using the toilet.