Falun Dafa Practitioner Mrs. Chen Jianhua Tortured to Death - Ningbo City Police Propose a 300,000 Yuan Settlement in Exchange for the Chen Family's Silence

Falun Dafa practitioner Mrs. Chen Jianhua worked at the Ningbo City Telecommunication Bureau in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. The police illegally arrested¹her on May 20th, 2005, when she was distributing materials exposing the persecution. Mrs. Chen was savagely tortured in detention. On August 20th, the police told her family to claim her body. The authorities proposed to pay her family, represented by her husband, 300,000 yuan² in exchange for their silence regarding Chen Jianhua's death.

Around August 20th, 2005, agents from the Zhejiang Province 610 Office³ held a 45-day brainwashing class at the Xishange Hotel in the Yinzhou District, Ningbo City. They arrested local Falun Dafa practitioners and sent them to brainwashing sessions, and threatened that the practitioners would be sent to forced labour camps if they refused to "reform⁴." Dafa practitioner Chen Zhongsheng from Leqing City was surrounded by more than twenty police officers headed by Qu Jifu, director of the 610 Office, and deputy secretary of the Ningbo City Political and Judiciary Committee, and also by Chen Jingsheng, head of the Ningbo City National Security Division. They tried to force him to attend the brainwashing class held by the 610 Office. Chen Zhongsheng resisted the persecution peacefully, but he was compelled to stay away from home to avoid arrest.

Personnel from the Political and Security Section of the Ningbo City Police Department lied to the practitioners' families, telling them, "Your loved ones will be released quickly if you just sign a paper agreeing to send him to a mental hospital. You don't even need to pay for the medical expenses, and he will be able to keep his job." Many practitioners' families were initially deceived. As a result, many practitioners were sent to mental hospitals where they were forced to ingest unknown drugs and were severely traumatised.

Practitioner Chen Gang, an employee of the Ningbo City Armed Division, was tortured to the brink of death in 2001. Practitioner Chi Haiming, a reporter for the Ningbo Evening News, was forced to take drugs and receive forced injections for 68 days. He was later sent to the Shiliping Forced Labour Camp where he was further tortured.

Xishange Hotel in the Yinzhou District, Ningbo City
Office: 86-574-88477777 (Office)
Main switchboard: 86-574-88476207
Fax: 86-574-88288388

Ningbo City Detention Centre: 86-574-87119289
Qu Jifu, Leqing City Political and Judiciary Committee deputy secretary and head of the 610 Office: 86-577-62550896 (Office), 86-311-62522966 (Home)
Chen Jingsheng, head of the Ningbo City Police Department's National Security Division: 86-577-62507796 (office), 86-577-62531315 (home), 86-577-62535326 (office), 86-13706777115 (cell)
Leqing City 610 Office: 577-62521354

Note

1. Illegally arrested: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law". (Variation: "illegally sentenced")

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

3. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

4. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/1/1/117702.html