(Clearwisdom.net) Ever since July 20, 1999, officials and policemen in Cangxi County, Sichuan Province, have followed Jiang Zemin's policy of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. They are: former Party Committee Secretary Luo Xianping, current county Party Committee Secretary, Zhou Jin, and county Party Committee Deputy Secretaries Liu Wenlong, Liu Rongxiao and Yang Zongli. Also involved are the former deputy secretary of the Politics and Law Committee, former 610 Office Head Xu Yunzong, current 610 Office Head Ke Dajie, current secretary of the Politics and Law Committee Zhang Yong, Police Department Head Peng Guanglin, Police Department Political Head Zhang Qiwei, and Deputy Police Department Head Luo Changmao. The following individuals are secret agents from the National Security Division: Hou Xiangyu, Yue Gang, Gou Dongsheng, and others.
These people are still cruelly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. According to incomplete statistics, in the years between July 20, 1999, and January 2007, they have persecuted nearly 200 Falun Gong practitioners by illegally searching their homes, confiscating property, extorting fines from them and arresting them, and taking them to detention centers and brainwashing centers. Approximately 30 practitioners have been sentenced to prisons or labor camp terms.
In February 2000, six practitioners, including Yan Zongfang, Kou Zhixiu, Luo Changhua, Li Guangqing, Yang Shixuan, and He Xiuzhen, were arrested and sent to the county detention center after they had gone to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. They were all sentenced to one or one and a half years of forced labor.
In 2001, practitioners Yan Zongfang, He Xiuzhen, Huang Qun, Liu Zhengqing, He Yongli, and Zeng Yuxian were illegally arrested, had money extorted from them, and were sentenced to jail or forced labor for telling people the truth about Falun Gong and distributing truth clarifying material to people.
In 2002, agents from the county government and police attempted to set up a brainwashing center but failed. Around July 2004, they arrested 28 practitioners and subjected them to brainwashing. They forced everyone to pay 5,000 to 8,000 yuan to attend. Concurrently, agents from the National Security Division wantonly searched the homes of more than 100 practitioners and confiscated their property. The agents threatened the practitioners, bullied them, and extorted money from them ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 yuan. They also forced them to write a "guarantee letter" not to practice Falun Gong, otherwise they would be taken to the brainwashing center.
In 2005, agents from the county 610 Office again subjected all county practitioners to additional persecution by forcing them to sign a "giving up Falun Gong" survey registration form. Any practitioners that refused to sign had money extorted from them or were taken to the brainwashing center.
In January 2006, policemen again searched the homes of practitioners who clarified the truth to people and confiscated their property. These practitioners were: Kou Zhihua, Luo Changhua, Huang Qun, Liu Zhengqing, Deng Shaojun, Wang Shifan, Yan Weisheng, Wang Yao, Zhang Qishun, Feng Chunhua, Zhang Zihui, Zou Jun, He Zuequan, Zeng Yuxian, and others. The police took them to the detention center and persecuted them. They had money extorted from them and were sent to a labor camp.
In August 2006, the police arrested practitioner Ms. Yan Zongfang for exposing the persecution. She was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor.
In September 2006, agents from the county 610 Office arrested all the Falun Gong practitioners in the county batch by batch, sent them to a brainwashing center in the county guest house, and made them pay a 2,000 yuan attendance fee.
On January 8, 2007, police and Huishui Township officials took practitioners Ms. Wang Xiaohong and Mr. Yang Zhengming to the county detention center. On January 9, 2007, Cangxi County police officers went to Langzhong City to search practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaohong's home. They couldn't find anything they wanted. Before they left they took her VCD player. On January 10, the police returned to Langzhong City and searched the home of practitioner Mr. Yang Zhengming without any of his relatives being present. They didn't find anything. On January 13 they returned once more and took Yang Zhengming's 70-year-old mother, sister, and brother to Mr. Yang's home where they threatened and bullied his family members to give them his computer and printer.
In order to force practitioners to give up their beliefs as well as get information, Cangxi County police officers used the most base and venomous methods, such as deception, violence and beating, and forcing practitioners to stand and/or kneel for long periods of time. Other abusive tactics were: filling the nose with water, forbidding toilet use, heavy shackles and handcuffs, binding practitioners on the Death Bed and beating female practitioners' breasts and genitalia. They also extorted from 3,000 to 10,000 yuan from practitioners' family members.
In August 2001, practitioner Ms. Yan Zongfang was arrested and taken to the Longshan Police Station for distributing truth materials. They then sent her to the detention center for persecution. She was handcuffed to a metal bed for 57 days, with her arms and legs severely stretched in four directions. She had to relieve herself on the bed. The police forbade her to take a shower. During the hot summer she became smelly and itchy. She also had constipation for several days. Her hands and feet were swollen and her fingers were numb. She was in much pain. She demanded to be set free of the bed. Police Station chief He Yongfu responded viciously, "A killer can escape from here, but not you! We have to keep you handcuffed on this metal bed until you are sentenced to a labor camp. Then you can be out of this bed." The other officer Zheng snarled, "Not only will we not let you go, we will also bundle you up tightly! We want to torture you to death!" Ms. Yan was illegally sentenced to four years in prison.
After practitioner Mr. Yang Shixuan was arrested, the policemen knocked him down on the ground and kicked and punched him with their hands and boots. He was forbidden to sleep or use the toilet. The policemen poured water into his nose and made him kneel on a wooden stool.
After practitioner Ms. Li Guangqing was taken to a brainwashing center, they pulled off all her clothes and bound her onto the Death Bed to try to make her renounce her belief. She couldn't move. About ten people pummeled her with their fists and kicked her with their boots. They also put a helmet on her head and covered her face with a cloth.
Practitioner Ms. Wang Shifang is a high school teacher at Wenchang High School. After the police found out she had established a truth materials site, they arrested her, took her to the county detention center, and kicked and punched her with their hands and boots. They deprived her of sleep for six days. She was sentenced to ten years in prison. Her non-practitioner husband was implicated and sentenced to four years. The police furthermore arrested Ms. Wang's sister and brother-in-law. They received sentences of four years in prison and three years of forced labor, respectively. They left a six-year-old and a three-year-old child at home. Their grandparents, who are in their 70s, are the children's caretakers.
The police arrested practitioner Mr. Zeng Yuxian for distributing truth materials and badly beat him. They burned him with an electric iron. Mr. Zeng was sentenced to five years in prison.
The evil officials in Cangxi County misuse their power and unscrupulously persecute good people who practice according to "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." There are two reasons they do this. First, for money. According to incomplete statistics, as of July 20, 1999, the policemen have extorted tens of thousand of yuan from practitioners without giving them any receipts. Second, these people have already lost their sense of humanity. They are completely without conscience and are committing bad deeds without considering the spiritual consequences.