Husband and Wife Suffer Persecution in Gansu Province

Mr. Bai Sanyuan and his wife, Mrs. Wang Genti, are Falun Dafa practitioners in Pingbao Town, Jingyuan County, Gansu Province. After they practised, they strove forward ceaselessly. At the end of 2000, they filled a big pack with truth-clarification materials and prepared to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa; however, they were abducted at the train station by police. Later, they were also illegally detained in the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. Since then, they have been sent to jail many times. The police asked them to sign the warrant for the arrest, but every time they rejected it with righteous thoughts and never cooperated with the police. They firmly believe in Teacher. Those around them admire and highly praise their hearts of firm belief in Dafa. Later on, Ms. Wang Genti was sent to a forced labour camp. In autumn of 2001, Bai Sanyuan's younger sister was also abducted by the local police because she practised Falun Dafa and spread awareness about the persecution of Falun Dafa. Later, she was sent to Gansu Province's First Detention Centre for a year of forced labour.

At the end of May 2001, Bai Sanyuan and another Dafa practitioner, He Jianzhong, were forcibly brought to the Court of Chengguan District, Lanzhou city, for sentencing. In court, they spoke justly, and shouted loudly "Falun Dafa is good!" They definitely did not accept the unjust sentence that the judge was trying to force on them. They asked the judge, "The constitution says that a citizen has the right to believe freely and the right to appeal to the higher authorities for help. After Falun Dafa was illegally persecuted by Jiang Zemin, Dafa practitioners went to the higher authorities to appeal against the unjust treatment of Dafa. What crime was committed? What kind of crime is committed by believing in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance"? What kind of crime is committed when a good person uses ¡"Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance' to guide his life?" Finally, the judge was rendered speechless by their query and did not know what to do. He had to hastily wind up the trial half way through and announced that the trial would reopen after a recess. The trial did not reach any conclusion. However, several months later, Bai Sanyuan received a written judgment saying that he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

After being sentenced, Bai Sanyuan was resolute in not accepting the judgment and lodged an appeal at the Lanzhou City Intermediate Court.

During his detention in the eleventh group of the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre, Bai Sanyuan protested the police's persecution of Dafa practitioners many times by going on a hunger strike. Police officer Yang Linquan from the medical station at that time (he has been transferred to the Lanzhou City Second Detention Centre now) led several criminals in force feeding Bai Sanyuan through a tube on many occasions and in the name of "saving his life." Under the instigation of police officer Yang, those criminals tortured Bai Sanyuan using "intubation." They did not insert the gastric tube into his stomach directly, but roughly jabbed it up and down after they inserted the tube into his oesophagus. It took a very long time to insert a gastric tube and Bai Sanyuan's oesophagus bled for a long time because of the rough treatment. Police officer Yang stood aside and sneered with vicious words, "I watched you go on hunger strike. You have experienced it now, so which would you prefer? Eating by yourself or having us feed you forcefully?" The things forced into his stomach were not all food, but often a very concentrated salt solution. One time, they even put more than 250 grams of salt into a small plastic bowl and then forcibly fed him with it. This caused his stomach to burn and put him through excruciating pain. Finally, all of what he threw up from his stomach was dry salt chunks.

The condition of cells in the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre is very bad. It is dark and damp (many persons suffered boils or scabies due to the dampness), dirty (most people in cells have a number of parasites), crowded (18 to 24 people packed into a cell of 16 square meters [about 160 square feet]). One light bulb of 36 volts, 25 watts is used, which looks like a "ghost lamp". Because of the long-term persecution, Bai Sanyuan's health became worse and worse. He had very serious scabies all over his body that oozed with pus from his hands to his feet, so that it was difficult to even look at him. In September 2002, he went on a hunger strike again to protest the long-term illegal detention. At that time, he was already very weak and thin. After force feeding him, the detention centre found they still could not reach their aim. They were afraid of bearing the responsibility if any problems occurred, so they sent him to the Gansu Province Prison Hospital, which is called Kangtai Hospital to the outside world. The doctors in the hospital saw him continuously go on hunger strike, and then tied him to a bed and forcibly gave him an intravenous injection. At the end of October 2002, the detention centre saw his life was not in danger, and they would have to pay the bill if he still remained in the hospital. Therefore, Zhao Guanhu, the director of the medical station in the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre, brought him back to the detention centre in the name of "being released on bail for medical treatment." At that time, Mr. Bai Sanyuan could not walk on his own and he could barely stand up, only doing so with his hand on the bed. After being taken back to the detention centre, he was continuously kept in the detention centre's medical station.

The address of Gansu Province Labour Reform Hospital:
Kangtai Hospital, Dasha Ping, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province,
Zip code: 730000, Telephone: 931-882-7321, 931-838-2940
Emergency Ward: 931-837-4046
Medical Division: 931-837-4134
Branch in Charge of Falun Gong in the Medical Division: 931-837-4094
Dean Zhang: 0931-8374071
Dean Yang: 0931-8367323
Dean Li: 0931-8367322
General on Duty: 0931-8374023
Director of Discipline Section: 0931-8369984
Discipline Section: 0931-8369834
Director of the Integration Section: 0931-8374049
Area code of Jingyuan County, Gansu Province: (0943)
Jinxie Village Committee in Pingbao Town, Jingyuan County: (943)--6350125
The Police Station in Pingbao Town, Jingyuan County: (943)--6350003
Town Hall of Pingbao Town, Jingyuan County: (943)--6350202
The Main office of the Jingyuan County Committee :0943-22188
The Political and Judiciary Committee of Jingyuan County Committee: 0943-22172
"610" Police in Jingyuan County: Pan Qianru, Ding Shanghe
Xiguoyuan Detention Centre: 0931-2750295
Pingantai Forced Labour Camp: 0931-6271102
Taoshuping Detention Centre: 0931-8690834

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/9/26/57991.html