(Clearwisdom.net)

Since July 20, 1999, the judicial and public security departments, the public health department, education office, public press, prisons, every township and village of Yiling District (Xiaoxita), Yichang City, Hubei Province have been brutally persecuting more than one hundred Falun Dafa practitioners in the area. Nearly fifty practitioners have had their homes ransacked. Many were arrested and taken to a confined area where they were brainwashed. Afterwards, they were fined large sums of money and sent to mental hospitals, where some became handicapped from physical abuse. Since information from inside these places is highly secret, and only small amounts of what has happened is known.

1. The Yiling District No. 1 Detention Center has been holding Falun Dafa practitioners for long periods of time. These sentences were handed down without any legal proceedings. The longest illegal confinement known is four years. It is estimated that since 1999, over sixty practitioners have been illegally confined in the detention center, and about twenty of them were confined for periods much longer than what was originally assigned. While detained in the center, many practitioners were punitively force fed, subjected to heavy labor, "carrying tires" (1), "riding an airplane," "slapping the face," "the big hang up," and other forms of abuse. For those practitioners whose families are well off, officers from Yiling District No. 1 Detention Center and the 610 Office would extort several thousand to tens of thousands of yuan for bail of the practitioner.

2. Song Xiutian (the assistant secretary of the Yiling District party committee), and Gong Binghua (the 610 office leader) directed the Yiling District 610 Office to organize nine consecutive brainwashing classes. Many Falun Dafa practitioners (mainly from the countryside of Yiling) were illegally detained and brainwashed. The most steadfast practitioners were transferred to a brainwashing center in Wuhan City. Massive amounts of illegal torture, including beating while being hung up and being forced to stand for extended periods of time were commonly committed. Yang Suqiong, a woman in her fifties, was sent to Yichang Mental Hospital by the 610 Office against her will, and was confined there for three months. Because brainwashing could not change her will, she was beaten severely and later became physically disabled. The perpetrator of this crime has not been held responsible under the protection of Song Xiutian.

3. Under the leadership and threats of district assistant secretary Song Xiutian over the past six years: government offices, corporations and village committees of all levels have been involved in the persecution of Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa practitioners. Also, many practitioners' families have been poverty stricken because of the persecution. Song Xiutian has even offered an 800-yuan reward for information about Falun Dafa practitioners. Many people who don't know the truth came forward just for the money

We urge overseas practitioners and international investigation agencies to pay attention to these issues. We will continue to gather evidence of the persecution and bring those who committed crimes against Falun Dafa to justice

Government officials and other individuals involved in the persecution:

Song Xiutian, assistant secretary of the district party committee, in charge of persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners: 86-717-7835118 (H)

Gong Binbhua, head of the 610 Office and brainwash center, currently head of the 610 Office at Yiling District, leads the beating of Falun Dafa practitioners while they are hung up and sends Falun Dafa practitioners to mental hospitals: 86-717-7836095 (H)

Hu Qinghua, male, in his forties, district 610 Office leader, actively involved in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners

Lu Zhou, female, in her thirties, district 610 Office leader, actively involved in torturing Falun Dafa practitioners

Wang Youlin, details unknown

Hu Shunying, national security brigade leader, aggressively tortures Falun Dafa practitioners: 86-13986825588 (C)

He Yong, deputy leader of the national security brigade

Xi Zuxin (transferred) and Li Kequan (transferred), policemen who have aggressively tortured numerous Falun Dafa practitioners

Zuo Yong, male, in his thirties, policeman of the national security brigade, viciously beat many practitioners

Dingsha (transferred), in his fifties, former head of the No. 1 Detention Center, aggressively and brutally tortures Falun Dafa practitioners. He has committed all of the cruel tortures mentioned above.

Following are the phone numbers of government offices involved in the torture:

District Party Committee Office: 86-717-7821355, 86-717-7821633 (F)
Office of Supervision and Investigation: 86-717-7839126; Secretarial Section: 86-717-7821355;
Integration Section: 86-717-7821475
610 Office: 86-717-7838655; Confidential Bureau: 86-717-7821633
Security Bureau: 86-717-7821987; Organization Department: 86-717-7838696
Publicity Department: 86-717-7838218; United Front Work Department: 86-717-7825407
Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-717-7839399
Comprehensive Program of Public Order Committee: 86-717-7826813
District Reception Office: 86-717-7827280; Appeals Office: 86-717-7822368
District Party Committee Party School: 86-717-7891621
District Workers' Union: 86-717-7822430
District Youth League Branch Committee: 86-717-7822596
District Women's League: 86-717-7821337
District Office of Supervision and Investigation: 86-717-7833999
District Civil Defense Office: 86-717-7835378

Department of Political and Judiciary and Police:
Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-717-7821427
Procuratorate: 86-717-7821479
Court: 86-717-7822330; Police Department: 86-717-7836110 (Commissar: Wang Yunfa)
Bureau of Justice: 86-717-7822472

Zhangcunping Linchang local police station: 86-717-7680070
Dalaoling Linchang local police station: 86-717-7990046

Deng Village local police station: 86-717-7500007
Taipingxi local police station: 86-717-7511110

Letianxi local police station: 86-717-7560190
Sandouping local police station: 86-717-6611463

Xiabaoping local police station: 86-717-7630110
Zhangcunping local police station: 86-717-7660011

Wuduhe local police station: 86-717-7610006
Huanghua local police station: 86-717-7951056

Fen Township local police station: 86-717-7930002
Longquan local police station: 86-717-7761410

Yaqueling local police station: 86-717-7734240
Zhangjiachang local police station: 86-717-7801754

Xiaoxita local police station: 86-717-7821533
Wuduhe Court House: 86-717-7610011

Huanghua Court House: 86-717-7951049
Letianxi Court House: 86-717-7561288

Yaqueling Court House: 86-717-7741186
Longquan Court House: 86-717-7761365

Notes:

(1) A brutal torture method: four to five rubber tires are stacked on top of each other. The practitioner is forced to sit in the center of the tires, stuck in a hole, with the feet and hands facing upward. For lengthy periods of time, the practitioner must live in the hole, eating, drinking, etc. in that position.