Facts about the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Jingshan County, Hubei Province

On November 3rd, 2006, eight Falun Gong practitioners from Jingshan County, Hubei Province, were arrested. Currently, six of them are still imprisoned in Jingshan Detention Centre.

Xiao Houzhen's wife is paralysed and bedridden without anyone to take care of her. Shang Qifeng is handicapped with only one hand and an 80-year old mother at home without anyone to take care of her.

Also, Zhou Qing from Jingshan County was sentenced to four years of imprisonment after being arrested in 2005. Zhou is still in Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang.

Mr. Zhou Qing, 30 years old, was a teacher at the First Middle School in Jingshan County. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, he has been arrested on many occasions. In February 2003, the First Middle School, along with local 610 Office¹ personnel, tried to take him away to a brainwashing centre again. Mr. Zhou was forced to leave home. That same year he was fired from the school. In 2004 he was arrested in Xiaogan by the local National Security Team and tortured at the local detention centre until all four of his limbs were paralysed and he could not even speak. Later, he was taken to the brainwashing centre and injected with unknown drugs that made him mentally disoriented. He also lost almost all his hair and could not see to his basic needs. Only when his life was hanging by a thread was he allowed to be taken home by his family. Before he was able to fully recover, on June 22nd, 2005, Mr. Zhou was once again taken into custody by the National Security Team in Xiaogan and sentenced to four years of imprisonment in July 2005.

Due to the long term persecution, Mr. Zhou's family had no income, and in May 2006, his wife and child went to Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang to visit him, hoping that he could fill out an application to apply for social benefits. However, the prison did not allow Mr. Zhou to see them. When his wife went to the county 610 Office, she was turned away, which depressed her greatly. That same day, a truck hit her and knocked her down. Both her legs were badly crushed, and she has still not recovered. The entire family is having a really hard time.

List of people responsible for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in Jingshan County:

610 Office Chief Tian Lixiang: 86-724-7330410(Office), 86-724-7333772(Home), 86-13908693368(Mobile)
Public Security Bureau National Protection Team Leader Peng Yilin: 86-13807263555(Mobile)
Members of the National Protection Team: Zhang Song, Pi Jingfeng, Chen Zhixia, Liu Juan
Jingshan County Courts: Qin Bixian, Xiong Huabin
Jingshan County Public Security Bureau Chief: Yang Biao

Note

1. "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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/3/13/174261.html