How Xiangcheng City Authorities Mistreat Falun Dafa Practitioners

During the persecution of Falun Gong in China, people from the Xiangcheng Detention Centre and Xiangcheng Public Security Bureau have inhumanely treated Falun Dafa practitioners who were illegally sent to and detained indefinitely at the forced labour camps. They extort huge amounts of money from practitioners and brutally torture them with various devices.

Under the Jiang Zemin regime's implication policy, the Party Secretary Wang Xiaoran of Xiangcheng City was demoted and fined several thousand Yuan [the average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan] because practitioners of Xinagcheng went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. As a result, he became very angry with Falun Dafa practitioners and was eager for revenge. Wang Xiaoran detained practitioners endlessly and claimed that nobody would be released from detention without paying 70,000 Yuan. Even after the detention centre agreed to release some practitioners, he still kept them. Zhou Qingwu, from the Public Security Bureau, is in charge of examining and approving of releases, and makes the final decision. Some practitioners have still not been released after long-term detention, including two who have been detained for over three years, and fourteen detained for over two years.

The Xiangcheng Detention Centre and Xiangcheng Public Security Bureau take extreme measures to torture Falun Dafa practitioners, including brutal beatings with fists and kicking, whipping with leather belts and heavy wire, sleep deprivation, hand cuffing in painful positions, forced kneeling on wooden sticks and bricks, tying to beds and doors, throwing practitioners from high places, force-feedings with psychotropics and strong salty water, piercing finger tips and toes with tooth picks, hitting knees with boards, stepping on practitioners' faces with heavy boots, burning their faces with cigarettes, burning the arches of their feet, extended exposure to scorching sun, forced labour, and more.

In order to meet recent inspection requirements, the Xiangcheng Detention Centre disguised detained practitioners' records by transferring them to different locations after completion of their terms.

Ms. Tian Shuhua was transferred to the Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp for a one-year term after completing one year of illegal detention in Xiangcheng City. During detention and forced labour, she was beaten and tortured many times by prison guards and criminal prisoners. After completion of the forced labour term, her family members went to retrieve her. She could not see or walk, and was completely unable to take care of herself. Several days after her return home, police from the suburban police substation and the Public Security Bureau arrested her again and detained her at the Xiangcheng Detention Centre for over two months. With pressure from family members, she was released in early April 2003, only to be illegally arrested again two weeks later.

Practitioner Wang Jun was sentenced to two and a half years in a forced labour camp for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in 1999. He had been on a hunger strike, protesting the illegal detention. Even under the pressure of heavy forced labour he held onto his belief. Upon completion of his term, his stay was extended half a year for no reason. In October 2002, after completing the illegal extension of forced labour "reeducation," Kaifeng Forced Labour Camp and the "610 Office"[1] in Xiangcheng City transferred him directly from the labour camp to the Xiangcheng Detention Centre, where he was tortured by various means. Seeing his unshakable belief in Dafa, the "610 Office" in Xiangcheng City once again detained him in the Xuchang Forced Labour Camp for no reason and without any legal procedures.

Ms. Liu Jinfang was illegally arrested at a Dafa materials site on October 15, 2001, and has been detained ever since. During a night-time interrogation at the Lianhua Hotel, police cuffed her hands behind her back, whipped her with leather belts, pierced her middle finger with bamboo needles, and burned her face with cigarette butts. She fainted several times under this extreme torture, but police revived her by repeatedly pouring cold water on her body. When she requested to use the toilet, she was refused. By dawn the next day, she was nearly dead. Afraid of being held accountable, the police found a doctor to save her, claiming she was hit by a falling tree.

Phone number of relevant people:
Wang Xiaoran, Party Secretary of Xiangcheng City
Huang Tongqiang, head of the "610 Office" in Xiangcheng City: 86-13938084966 (mobile)
Zhou Qingwu, from the Public Security Bureau: 86-394-4295158 (office)
Ma Zhefeng, director of the National Security Bureau, 86-13707628899 (mobile), 86-394-4321316 (office)
Jin Hai, team head of the National Security Bureau, 86-394-4319306 (office)
Bai Yao, a policeman from the National Security Bureau, 86-394-4324756 (office)
Liu Xianzhong, whose position is unknown, 86-394-4318996 (home), 86-13033960089 (mobile)

[1] "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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/12/3/61709.html