The Persecution of Hebei Province Dafa Practitioner Chen Guoyou's Family (Part 2)

The hometown of Chen Guoyou's family is Wanquan Town, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. Since July 1999, Mr. Chen's family, including his wife, two daughters, a son-in-law and his son, have been sentenced to forced labour camps and have been forced to pay huge fines numerous times because of their persistence in practising Falun Gong and going to Beijing to appeal. Some of their family members are still being detained and some have become destitute and homeless due to the persecution. The fines levied against them and the property which they have lost and have had confiscated amount to a total of close to 140 thousand yuan [Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 yuan].

Since July 20, 1999, the police station superintendent and the town bailiff have asked Mr. Chen to write a "Guarantee Statement,"(1) to give up Dafa books and they have forbidden him to practise the exercises. In December of 1999, Mr. Chen's second daughter, Chen Liqun, and three other Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. They were taken to the police station as soon as they arrived at the front gate of Tiananmen Square. On the same day, they were taken back to their hometown by the county police and were illegally detained for one and a half months. Li Jijin from the Political Security Unit took away Chen Liqun's 500 yuan. He also demanded 450 yuan for meal charges and 3,500 yuan bail when they were released. They did not receive any receipt.

In January 2000, Mr. Chen's son-in-law, Li Jun (the husband of Chen Liqun), put his signature on the "Appeal Letter for Peaceful Dialogue." He was fined 5,000 yuan and during the "sensitive days" [such as national holidays and other dates of significance to the ruling party] he was under close surveillance by his work unit and the police. On July 4, 2001, Li Jun was taken from his work unit during office hours and brought to the police station for interrogation. He was later illegally detained in the detention centre. On July 5, a policeman from the police station took away his mobile phone, which Mr. Li had just purchased for 1,380 yuan. Li Jun was illegally detained for more than four months. His elderly father, brother and sister paid a large sum of money to bail him out. After he had just returned to work for a month, Ma Shanfu from the Political Security Office took Li Jun away from his office and sent him to a brainwashing centre while waiting to send him to a forced labour camp. They asked his family to pay 1,000 yuan for meal charges. Li Jun escaped from the brainwashing centre and became homeless and destitute in order to avoid being arrested. On July 6, the police used the excuse of needing to ask questions to try to take the second daughter, Chen Liqun, away. Fortunately, she managed to escape. Since then Ms. Chen has been forced to become destitute and homeless and she had to leave her 10-year-old daughter at home.

In January of 2000, Mr. Chen, his wife and four other Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. At the time, many local people from Wanquan County also went to Beijing to appeal. The county police were waiting for them in Beijing and brought them back to the county detention centre. The practitioners were illegally detained for a month. Li Jijin took Mr. Chen's 500 yuan which he had brought along and asked him to pay a 3,500 yuan fine and a meal charge of 300 yuan. Because Mr. Chen's wife and daughter had also gone to Beijing to appeal, he was sentenced as an unlawful group organiser and was taken away from his house for interrogation. The former Political Security Committee head and Sun Xifu hit and kicked him and knocked out one of his teeth. After having detained Mr. Chen for a month and a half, they demanded a meal charge 450 yuan and a fine of 4,500 yuan. Since then, the town has withheld Mr. Chen's pension of 1,000 yuan. At the time, the bailiff of the town, Gao Gui, and secretary Guo Yujin claimed that they would only withhold his pension for one year. However, after the year passed they did not return the pension to him. They only gave him 200 yuan for living expenses. Due to the numerous fines they were forced to pay, 200 yuan was not enough for basic living. This elderly couple had no choice but to go back to work again and they had to rely on help from their friends as well.

During the summer of 2000, Mr. Chen's wife was detained in the town police station for one month and fined 800 yuan because she practised the Falun Gong exercises outside. Between 1999 and 2002, Mr. Chen and his wife were disturbed many times by the authorities. On certain sensitive days the police would lock them up in Su Jiaqiao Elementary School of Wanquan Town.

In 2001, Mr. Chen's daughter was forced to become homeless to avoid arrest from home. Under instructions from the Deputy Superintendent, Jin Hong, the policemen of Wanquan disturbed and broke into practitioners' homes regardless of whether it was day or night. They would force their way inside even before the door was opened. One time during the middle of the night, the police found and confiscated Dafa books, a tape recorder and exercise tapes. Once again Mr. Chen was locked up for eighteen days.

In 2002, Mr. Chen's wife was reported while distributing truth clarifying materials. She was detained in the detention centre and started a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. She was only released after more than ten days of being on the hunger strike. On May 13 of the same year, county police officers Ma Zhanfu, and Gao Yan seized her from her home. She was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labour in the Gao Yang Forced Labour Camp. In August of 2003, due to her extremely poor physical condition and serious heart disease symptoms, the authorities notified her family to take her home because the labour camp did not want to be responsible for keeping her.

After the payroll reformation of 2002, all teachers have to draw their salary directly from the bank with their salary book. Mr. Chen's salary was taken by Su Jiaqiao Elementary School principal Li Shanglong, who only gave him 200 yuan monthly for living expenses. When Mr. Chen repeatedly questioned the principal about the money due to him, the principal avoided the subject.

Mr. Chen's son Chen Ji worked for the payroll department of the quality control division. In 2000 he put his signature on the "Appeal Letter for Peaceful Dialogue" and was fined 5,000 yuan by Wanquan Township. While in detention he was brutally beaten, and could not even take off his clothes by himself afterwards. His office did not allow him to have any Sundays off and they withheld his salary. To earn a living for his wife and their baby child, he had to get an outside job but his work unit would not issue an identification card for him. At the end of 2000, without any due process of law, Chen Ji was sentenced to the Gao Yang Forced Labour Camp for holding a banner that said "Falun Dafa Is Good" in Beijing. He experienced brutal persecution in a labour camp including being tortured with electric shocks and with "riding an airplane."(2) Chen Ji was released from the camp in April 2002. He asked his work unit to return his ID card and asked to be returned to his former post. The director, Tian De, pushed the responsibility to the "610 Office" (3) and would only allow Chen Ji to return to his post if he would sign statements promising not to practise Falun Gong and expressing regret over practising in the past. Faced with no other choice, Chen Ji had to take an outside job.

On May 17, 2003, Mr. Chen's son-in-law, Li Jun, and Li Jun's wife Chen Liqun were taken away from the house of a Falun Gong practitioner by policemen from Laoya Zhuang and Ning Yuan Bao Police Stations in Zhang Jiakou City. After they were brutally interrogated for seven days and nights by the No. 3 Unit of Qiao Dong Police Station, they were sent to a detention centre. Around that time, a Falun Gong practitioner had recently been persecuted to death after a hunger strike. Chen Liqun was extremely weak after 34 days of being on a hunger strike. The No. 3 Police Operative Unit was afraid it would be held responsible, so they released the couple. On the same day at 3 AM, the township Political Security Chief, Ma Zhanfu, and township police Jin Hong, together with five or six other policemen, jumped over the fence and broke into their home. They hypocritically pretended to comfort Li Jun's wife. However, the next day around 8 AM, they sent a teacher to check on her physical condition with the intention of detaining her again to continue their persecution. Under such circumstances, Chen Liqun was forced to become homeless and destitute. After that, Li Jun's home telephone was cut off and their rented apartment was ransacked. All of their property was confiscated, including a motorcycle, a colour television and other appliances worth about 14,000 yuan. No legal procedures were followed and Li Jun is still being detained.

On May 17, 2003, Mr. Chen's son Chen Ji went to visit his second sister and was taken away by the police who were waiting for him there. He was questioned for seven days and nights and was sent to the detention centre and kept there for two months. Chen Ji was released after a hunger strike protest and found that all his belongings had been taken away by the Nanzhan police station of Zhang Jiakou, who had not informed anyone of their actions. Due to the long-term persecution and the resulting severe stress and financial hardship, his wife asked for a divorce.

After the eldest daughter Chen Jie appealed in January of 2000, her work unit only gave her 170 yuan salary per month. In August of the same year she was unjustly sentenced to three years of forced labour and there was no one to take care of her three-year-old child. Because she remained steadfast in her belief in Falun Dafa, Ms. Chen was transferred between many forced labour camps. Only after she was forcibly brainwashed and compromised, was she was released in the winter of 2001.

The Chen family's total fines and loss of property has amounted to about 30,000 yuan; including the deducted salaries, it is nearly 140 thousand yuan. Some of their family members are still being detained and some are homeless and destitute. They have suffered so deeply under the persecution of Jiang Zemin's group.

The persons responsible for the persecution of Mr. Chen's family --

The former Security Bureau Security Political Unit: Li Jijin
The present Security Bureau Security Political Unit: Ma Shanfu
Wanquan Town Police Station Deputy Superintendent: Jin Hong: 86-313-4233355 (home)，86-139139140179 (mobile)
The former Wanquan Town Bailiff, Gao Giu: 86-313-4224184 (home)
The former Wanquan Town Secretary, Guo Yajun: 86-313-4221853 (home)
Quality Check Director General, Tian De: 86-313-4223274 (home)
Quality Check Deputy Director General, Wang Yun: 86-313-4224346 (home)
Payroll Department Director, Guo Tingli: 86-313-4223568 (home)
Wanquan Town Su Jiaqiao Elementary School principal, Li Shenglong: 86-313-4813481 (home)
Su Jiaqiao Elementary School: 86-313-4815004
Jin Hong's sister: 86-313-4812238 (home)

(1) "Guarantee Statement" is a statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

(2) "Riding an Airplane:" in this torture, the head is bent down until it cannot go down any further while the hands are pulled up and held up to the highest point. The hips have to point up. One is forced to keep this position unchanged for a long time. The body in this position looks like the shape of an airplane, which is how this torture is named.

(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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/12/15/62589.html