(Clearwisdom.net) Agents from the Texing Township local government and police station in the Longmatan District of Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, actively cooperated with Jiang's Chinese Communist Party to persecute Falun Gong. The head of Texing Township, the Party secretary, and police station Chief Gan Yong personally participated, attacking local practitioners brutally, and making them suffer severely.
The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at this township started on April 25, 1999. The township's head and the police station head personally participated. They led the village Party secretary, the accountant, and others to blatantly intrude into practitioners' homes. They forced practitioners to hand over books, prevented them from exercising according to Falun Dafa, and monitored and tracked their activities. One practitioner said that the person that Gan Yong had sent to keep her under surveillance followed on her heels. Once he even followed her to a friend's home and sat down to eat at the banquet. If the practitioners being monitored were nowhere to be seen for a few minutes, local police station and township government agents "would run around everywhere."
The head, the Party secretary, and police station chief Gan Yong intimidated practitioners into handing over their Dafa books. One practitioner explained to them, "Citizens have the freedom of belief. Falun Gong teaches how to be a kind person. Is there anything wrong with wanting to be a better person? What a big crime you have committed!" They would not listen to a single word. They continued to raid and rob at will. To snatch the book, they were not hesitant to twist an arm or push someone to the ground. Once they got the book they threw it into the coal stove to burn it.
Gan Yong threatened a practitioner who righteously protected the book, "You are unwilling to hand over the book and want to go on practicing. It will affect your husband's work and your son's future." Gan Yong and township head Huang repeatedly threatened this practitioner's husband. He ordered him to make sure his wife no longer practiced and to keep in contact with the government and local police station. Otherwise, he would be "dismissed from work and have to forfeit his wages!"
On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin ordered the persecution of Falun Gong across China. Texing Township followed closely, step by step, and became even more aggressive. The township head, Party secretary, and police station chief intruded into practitioners' homes and workplaces at any time. One practitioner said that after July 20, 1999, Gan Yong confiscated their Dafa materials. One time, while I was at work, he called someone to come over and videotape me at work and lobbed personal attacks. For a long time, no matter whether day or night, Gan Yong frequently harassed me at my workplace until he was transferred from Texing.
Texing Township officials monitored and tracked Falun Gong practitioners' steps unscrupulously. They claimed they would reward those who "rendered meritorious service" by monitoring and tracking with ten thousand yuan. One practitioner told how a police vehicle often stopped in front of her home. Confiscating a family's belongings became routine. Some practitioners' homes were ransacked dozens of times. During February 2004 of the Chinese lunar calendar, one practitioners' home was ransacked three times within 20 days. However, those confiscating a family's personal belongings often didn't have a search warrant nor did they follow any legitimate procedures or abide by any legal proceedings. One practitioner verified that after her illegal arrest on January 2004, the police unexpectedly called persons from the local residents' committee who didn't have a search warrant to confiscate her belongings. They took away a Dafa book, truth clarification materials, a tape recorder, and other things.
Officials in Texing adopted illegal methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners without regard for the law. As early as April 25, 1999, officials there had begun to put those who went to Beijing to appeal and report the truth to the government into prison. After July 20, 1999, Gan Yong played hard-ball, putting Falun Gong practitioners into prison. A practitioner said that in July 2000, after Gan Yong intruded into her home and snatched her book, township head Huang asked what to do next. Gan replied bluntly, "Put her into the detention center!" The life of Falun Gong practitioners were in Gan Yong's hands. With just one of his evil decisions, a Falun Gong practitioner might be imprisoned for years. Some Texing practitioners in recent years were illegally imprisoned four times; some were sent to a labor camp for two to three years and some for longer. They were incarcerated in all kinds and sizes of prisons in Luzhou City. Several of them suffered from ruthless tortures at the Zizhong City Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp.
The Luzhou City Brainwashing Center is located in the Shibaowan Forced Labor Camp. The practitioners who were detained there reported, "One person, one room. Only out for meals. Walk in line. No talking. Need to write the three statements to attack Dafa and Master. Forced to read the statements out in public. They would video record it and use the video to deceive the public. If you refused to write and refused to "reform," you could not leave." They used this forceful method to make practitioners give up their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." This brainwashing center, called "education in respect for the law" in fact devastates a person's spirit. They willfully deprive citizens of their personal freedom, infringe upon their legitimate rights and interests, deliberately ignore the constitution and do not follow any legal rules or regulations.
The local police station does not have a jail but they set up a private prison where they put practitioners for several months. According to the practitioners who were detained there: "Sometimes less than half a pound of food was provided per day. We were always starving. The food was rotten vegetables and leftovers. The container the food came in was the same one they used for pigs. Nevertheless, our families were told to pay 1,200 "yuan" in living expenses for us per month."
Texing practitioners also suffered a great deal financially. For example, practitioners imprisoned in the brainwashing center had to pay for the brainwashing and pay the local police station and the detention center. The detention center fee was 20 yuan a day. Gan Yong extorted money from one detained practitioner, whom he then released. When the practitioner made a legal appeal, the township leaders gave orders for her wages to be stopped. Another practitioner that firmly believed in Falun Dafa in the brainwashing center also had her wages frozen. Some practitioners were fined 6,000 yuan and had their wages frozen for one year and eight months.
One practitioner even wrote in an appeal, "After I went to Beijing to appeal in February 2000, I was illegally imprisoned in the police station, detention center, and drug rehabilitation center. Then I was put into a forced labor camp for two years. I was sent to the Zizhong City Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp for further persecution. In addition, Texing Township officials fined me 9,000 yuan the first time and 6,480 yuan the second time." This practitioner stated, "The female supervisor and the local police station chief collected this fine from my workplace by forcing me to write IOU notes when I lost my freedom. Even worse, they deducted 15,800 yuan from the sale of a house that my daughter sold. They stated that this was a punishment to deter me from appealing in Beijing again. When I was released from incarceration in 2003, my daughter went to the government to ask for the money to be returned. They said they did not have any money and refused to deal with her. They eventually returned 5,000 yuan in 2004 and another 5,000 yuan in 2005 and claimed they did not know when the rest might be returned."
This practitioner also said she had not received wages since November 2000. "In 2003, at my family members' repeated requests, my workplace issued me payment of 200 yuan for monthly living expenses." The financial persecution severely aggravated Falun Gong practitioners' burden. This persecution not only impacted many practitioners but also persecuted tens of thousands of families and brought disaster to the family members, relatives, and friends and to the general public.
In 2004, Gan Yong met his former teacher (a Falun Gong practitioner) waiting for a bus in Yutang Township. He jumped up and grabbed him for no reason. He said wickedly, "Don't think that I won't beat you just because you are a teacher!" As he spoke he slapped his teacher's face twice, twisted his hands, and lifted them up, hurting the teacher severely. Then he arrested his former teacher and imprisoned him for 20 days.
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