Xianhe Oil Production Field and Shengli Oil Field Conducts Merciless Persecution of Employees

Since July 20, 1999, the Party committee of the Xianhe Oil Production Field has closely followed Jiang Zemin's group to target Falun Gong practitioners and carried out the secret order of "bankrupting them financially, destroying them physically and defaming their reputation." The leader of this effort is secretary Man Yuanchun who personally proceeded with the brutal persecution against the practitioners. The facts are as follows:

After July 20, 1999, practitioner Li Xiaodong and Li Jiwei from the Le'an sub-base supply station, were taken back for appealing for Falun Dafa in Beijing. Party secretary Man Yuanchun ordered the political instructor of the oil field to unlawfully detain the two practitioners for one week and fined them 700 Yuan*.

In order to safeguard Dafa, Li Xiaodong, Li Jiwei and Feng Dongzhen once again appealed to the National Civil Administration Bureau. They were forcibly taken back and detained in the security department. The next day they were sent to a detention centre. Since it was the time of the Spring Festival, the police in the detention centre didn't provide them food, instead, asked their families to deliver them meals. It was not until more than a dozen practitioners went on a hunger strike that the detention center started to release them. Right after they got released, leaders from Xianhe Oilfield had them detained at the factory supply station. Li Xiaochun kept going on a hunger strike.

They were afraid of taking responsibility so they transferred practitioners to Caoqiao Supply Station for detention. While they were detained there, under order from secretary Man Yuanchun, the police viciously tortured Li Xiaodong. Just because he read Dafa books, the books were confiscated. They tied him up to a tree to publicly humiliate him. In order to resist the unlawful persecution, Li Xiaodong went on hunger strike again. He was even forced to do heavy physical labour during the hunger strike. Around February and March they even sent the mentally healthy and normal Li Xiaodong into the Psychiatric Hospital of the 8th Branch of the oil field to be persecuted for his spiritual belief. Since the doctors diagnosed that he was not mentally ill, the hospital refused to accept him.

Party committee secretary Man Yuanchun looked all around for contacts. He asked that the oil field's Party committee to put pressure onto the hospital. Li Xiaodong was sent to the psychiatric hospital three times this way and finally bowing to political pressure, the hospital accepted him. After being detained in the hospital, Li Xiaodong was to be subjected to undergo injections with psychotropic drugs, but he firmly resisted. The hospital officials therefore proceeded to administer electric shock treatments [known as ECT] to immobilize him and then injected him with drugs against his will. During that period, the hospital required two daily escorts from his work. His coworkers suffered tremendous fear and were persecuted too by having to monitor their former colleague. His coworkers witnessed that a normal person received such abusive treatment and they all lodged a protest. Due to the strong requests from his coworkers, supply station leaders tried to cut a deal with his father without Li Xiaodong's knowledge, about paying a 7,000 Yuan fee to the hospital in return for permission to let Li Xiaodong stay at home and be taken care of by his family as he was not permitted to go to work. In October 2000, Xianhe officials once again detained Li Xiaodong in the security department for nine months. By July 2001, he was expelled from his job for not renouncing his belief in Falun Dafa. His work unit in conjunction with the authorities forced him to attend a brainwashing session that lasted as long as six months.

Shang Baoqiang, security department head and others beat a young female practitioner Zhang Yinghua until she was covered with blue bruises all over her body. He used a rubber-covered baton and put her into an interrogation room for two days and nights. Zeng Aihong was pulled into the interrogating room by her hair by Shang Baoqiang, when she was discovered reading Falun Dafa materials. The authorities pushed her onto a table and three of them beat her with batons in turn for over an hour.

Shang Baoqiang grabbed her hair to slam her head against a wall. They beat the young female practitioner black and blue on her face, and she sustained cuts and bruises all over her body. Dafa practitioner Ms. Niu Aiqing merely said, "You have gone too far this time." Shang Baoqiang then slapped her face over and over and again grabbed her by the hair to slam her head against a wall. He handcuffed her then kicked her while she was bound.

Because Feng Dongzhen recited the teachings from Falun Dafa books, Shang Baoqiang beat her with the baton in front of all the practitioners, then he pulled her outdoors and beat her outside. The practitioners couldn't bear watching him abuse their fellow practitioner any more. All practitioner came outside to demand that he stop beating Feng Dongzhen. The perpetrators then handcuffed all practitioners together. Just because Ms. Niu Aiqing urged the authorities to treat practitioners well, they hung her separately in a little dark room where she could barely touch the ground with her toes. After that they hung her up on a water heater pipe in the meeting room for seven days and nights. She still was firm and refused to renounce her belief! Then they moved her to the interrogation room for two days and nights. Not only did she not get any sleep during these ten days and nights, but also received no food. The combination of sleep deprivation and forced starvation resulted in her lapsing into a coma.

At the same time they put Ms. Niu Aiqing into a separate room, then put Ms. Feng Dongzhen and Ms. Zeng Aihong in the same room. Those two were locked up inside for six days and nights and not given any food as well. In a show of support, all the detained practitioners joined together to conduct a hunger strike to protest the savage torture and abuse being perpetrated against them and demanded they be unconditionally released since they had committed no crimes. The security department people became afraid of anyone dying as a result of their torture and abuse. They stopped hanging people by their handcuffs but instead locked them up. Security department enforcers didn't even exempt a 60-year-old person. Qi Hongsheng beat up Dafa practitioner Wei Shuzen, a woman approximately 50 years old, for over an hour. She had wounds all over her body. The authorities also beat up Ms. Chen Yanying, who was over 60 years old.

Around June 2001, Li Xiaodong went to Beijing for appeal and was arrested back. He was hung up for three days and nights in the hallway of security section. During these three days, Qi Hongsheng and others took turns beating Li Xiaodong. They not only punched and kicked practitioners but also used sticks and police batons. Li Xiaodong was barely able to take a breath. Then he was shackled in a metal chair for several days.

Fearing the exposure of their unlawful deeds, in December 18, 2000, all these Dafa practitioners were transferred to the remote Farm Product Company. The security section enforcers there became even more reckless. Because Li Xiaodong refused to watch a video that defamed Dafa, he was shackled to a metal rack on the snowy ground outside. The snow-covered ground was the only place for him to sit. An old doorman secretly passed him a piece of cardboard. Once, Qi Hongsheng and Shang Baoqiang beat Li Xiaodong all day long. All the practitioners went on a hunger strike again to protest this renewed abuse and try to stop the persecution. Because Dafa practitioners refused to watch any videos that defamed Dafa, they were beaten daily by the authorities and dragged to the video room to be forced to watch the videos. The Security Section was short-handed, so they transferred staff from Caoqiao to help them torture Dafa practitioners. These personnel were not allowed to go back home to visit their families, even during the Spring Festival, which was designed to cause them to blame and resent the Dafa practitioners.

While all the acts of mental and physical abuse and mistreatment were going on, under instruction from secretary Man Yuanchun, the personnel proceeded with plans to financially ruin the Dafa practitioners by fining them exorbitant sums of money for the authorities own enrichment. Niu Aiqing was fined 10,000 Yuan* and more than 8,000 Yuan was deducted from a one-year salary payment. Gong Bingying received only 300 Yuan per month living expenses. Other practitioners and Li Jiwei had their salaries cut. Wei Shuzhen was fined 5,000 Yuan; Chen Yanying was fined 10,000 Yuan; and Pan Wenying was fined 10,000 Yuan. During the time they were detained at the Farm Products Company, their work unit managers forced them to resign. Li Xiaodong, Niu Aidong and others were forced to resign in July 2001, losing their jobs.

In September 2001, Dafa practitioner Li Fang from the First Oilfield was arrested and taken to the Security Section for printing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials at her own expense. Shang Baoqiang and others interrogated her and didn't allow her to sleep for six days and nights. After having been detained for one month, she was sent to the notorious Wang Village Labour Camp for brainwashing. She suffered the same inhuman mental torture there and was also fined 5,000 Yuan.

On October 28, 2003, Dafa practitioner Li Xinglun from the First Oilfield was sent to the Wang Village brainwashing session for distributing Dafa flyers. This mental anguish caused him severe stress. He had nearly 10,000 Yuan of his personal savings extorted from him.

Related persons phone number:

Man Yuanchun 86-546-8796598(Office) 86-546-8531598(Home)

Shang Baoqiang 86-546-8781140(Office) 86-546-8703505(Home)

Gao Feng 86-546-8613773(Office) 86-546-8782605(Home)
(Political Instructor from the First Oilfield)

Falun Gong Persecution Office 86-546-8702033

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

** Guarantee Statement: Guarantees not to practise cultivate Falun Gong anymore, expressing regret at having practised at all, and promises not to associate with other practitioners and not to go to Beijing to appeal for Dafa

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/10/67093.html