A True Record of How Practitioners From Hengyang Are Persecuted

1.Between January 17 and 23, 2001, Luo Gan visited Hengyang City and Zeng Qinghong visited Changsha City (capital of Hunan Province) in order to organize the persecution against practitioners. During these 6 days, mass arrests were carried out in Hengyang City. Over 1600 practitioners were arrested and detained in the Wangjiawan, Baishahu area. They were held in first and second detention centers, temporary watch houses, drug addiction centers, police stations, police substations, and security departments of various work units, as well as the local 610 office (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.) The methods used to arrest the practitioners included: deceiving practitioners into going to the police station for a 'talk' or having policemen pretend to become friends with practitioners. Policemen would order practitioners to write repentence letters, or otherwise detain them. Some practitioners had their houses surrounded by police and were taken away by force. Police issued a Wanted Warranty to arrest practitioners. Those detained were sentenced to forced labor camps in batches. Many are now detained in Changsha City Pingtang Forced Labor Prison, Xinkaipu Forced Labor Institute, Zhuzhou City Baimalong Forced Labor Camp, Yuyang City Forced Labor Farm.

2.On September 1, 2001, some organizations opened an exhibition for slandering Falun Dafa in the Hengyang City No.2 High School Gym. The authorities notified the work units to have the employees organized into visiting the exhibition. Some traitors were arranged to be interviewed on TV.

3.The Police Department issued a new policy, following the orders of terrorists Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan, to imprison all people who distributed Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials.

4.On August 28 2001, a 78-year-old woman's house was ransacked. Police confiscated her books "Zhuan Falun", "Essentials for Further Advancement" and other Falun Dafa literature. The elderly woman has left home to avoid futher persecution.

5.Another elderly woman did not surrender in the face of oppression. She continues practicing the exercises in the public park day after day. A an ex-Falun Dafa practitioner who was brainwashed returning from Xinkaipu Forced Labor Institute interfered with the elderly woman, not allowing her to practice and also used pressure from work units and other governmental organizations. The elderly woman changed locations and still practices the exercises in public.

6.Practitioner Chang Ming from Anhui Province, working in Hengyang City, was arrested in his work unit at Miaopu Park in March and was detained over a long period. In July, he was severely injured while being interrogated and brutally tortured by the policemen of the city police department. The following day, he was transferred from No. 2 detention center. We still do not know his whereabouts or if he is still alive.