Fushun City Mine Uses Various Means to Deny Innocent Dafa Practitioners Their Human Rights

The organizing department of Hongtoushan Mine of Fushun City, Liaoning Province, is the major department in charge of persecuting Falun Gong. Geng Huiwen, the director of the department in charge of the persecution, works under direct orders from the "610 Office"* and Hongtoushan Mine Party Committee, and is one of the major agents of Jiang Zemin's group in persecuting Falun Gong at Hongtoushan Mine.

Over the four years of brutal persecution, Falun Gong practitioners of the Hongtoushan Mine have suffered various forms of persecution.

Yang Xiaozhi, Liu Guiying and Cao Likun were fired, and they have been deprived of their salaries to this day.

Pit-entrance worker Wang Youcai was arrested when he went to appeal in Beijing in October 1999, and he was then sent back to Dashagou Detention Centre in Qingyuan County. After he was released, he had to work every day but only got three Yuan** in salary. He was detained in Fushun City Forced Labour Camp after he went to appeal in Beijing in December 2001. He was again arrested by the Fushun City Police Department in April 2003, and after being brutally tortured there, he was sent to the Dashagou Detention Centre in Qingyuan County. After that, he was sentenced to three years in prison and is now detained in the Benxi Prison. His wife suffered a stroke and could not take care of herself, and neither did anybody else take care of her.

In October 1999, Liu Guiying, material administrator of the 7th Field Pit-entrance was detained in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years because she appealed in Beijing for Falun Gong. Some time after her release, she was reported [to the police] while clarifying the truth, and was forced to become homeless. She was arrested in October 2002, and forced to pay a repatriation fee of 8,000 Yuan. Geng Huiwen sent her to the Dashagou Detention Centre in Qingyuan County, and she was sentenced to seven years. She was then sent to Shenyang City's Dabei Prison, from where she was bailed out for treatment because she had become extremely weak after being persecuted.

Pit-entrance worker Liu Hongchang was arrested in April 2001, because he clarified the truth (about Falun Gong). He was beaten so badly that a rib was broken. He was taken to the Dashagou Detention Centre in Qingyuan County, sentenced to five years imprisonment, and is now detained in Huazi Prison in Liaoyang City.

On the evening of July 11, 2001, Dafa practitioner Wang Dejun of Tuanshan Street was asleep at home when Geng Huiwen and police station director Liang Daming came and arrested him. They searched his home, confiscated his property and had him sentenced him to a forced labour camp for two years.

Over the last four years, Sui Lisen and Zhang Huamei, who run a chemist, were severely persecuted. They were fined a large amount of money and forced to attend brainwashing classes. Sui Lisen got only three Yuan salary each day during these four years. In early March 2003, Fushun City police took Zhang Huamei to Xiaobailou, Fushun City where she was beaten so badly that her leg was broken.

The salaries of around 20 practitioners were decreased in 1999, and they did not get proper promotion. During this time, non-practitioner salaries were increased.

At least 30 persons were sentenced to one to three years of forced labour. There are still nine people detained in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City.

At least 22 people have been detained. Du Jinfeng (Liu Hongchang's mother, an older woman over 70 years in age) was sent to the Dashagou Detention Centre twice, and was twice fined 6500 Yuan.

At least 14 people, were on probation for one to two years. Those who didn't get fired and did not give up their cultivation had to work every day as usual, but only got threeYuan per day as salary. They were charged large amounts as "deposit." Feng Junying, retired worker of a service company, was charged a deposit of 3,000 Yuan, and his pension of 35 months has been withheld. Ji Shangkun and Yang Xuejun were on probation for two years, and charged a deposit of 5,000 Yuan. After the end of the probation, they still were not paid their salary. Ji Shangkun and Yang Xuejun had their probations extended by an additional nine months. Feng Zhaojin got a probation of one year and was sent to Fushun City Forced Labour Camp to attend brainwashing classes after he went to appeal in Beijing.

During 2000-2002, Geng Huiwen arranged two sessions of brainwashing classes on the 2nd floor of the technical school of the Mine and forced over 20 practitioners to attend each.

In August 2002, the Qingyuan County "610 Office" opened brainwashing classes, and the organizing department of the mine forced four practitioners to attend.

In October 2003, a brainwashing class was held in Luotaishanzhuang in Fushun City. The class was involved in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The organizing department abducted four practitioners and sent them to the brainwashing class. Some of the practitioners were harassed many times, and they had no choice but to leave home.

These are only small portion of the facts about how the organizing department of the Hongtoushan Mine persecutes Falun Gong practitioners.

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*The "610 Office" is an agency specifically established to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

** 500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China

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