Lawsuit Against the Authorities of the Central Transportation Company of the Shengli Oil Field Management Bureau for Their Extended Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners

To: Dongying City Court, Dongying City Procuratorate

Plaintiffs: Practitioners and their family members who have been illegally detained and persecuted

Defendants: The Central Transportation Company of the Shengli Oil Field Management Bureau;

Persons primarily responsible:

Zhou Bingkai, former Party Committee Secretary of the Central Transportation Company;

Huang Zhenhua, former Deputy Party Committee Secretary of the Central Transportation Company;

Xu Tingde and Wang Zhiqiang, both responsible for operating the brainwashing centre at the Central Transportation Company.

Requests:

1. Stop the defendants from committing illegal acts of persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners, terminate all brainwashing classes, and unconditionally release all detained practitioners.

2. Compensate the plaintiffs for all financial losses caused by the persecution, restore employment and living arrangements for all practitioners who have been forced to flee their homes in order to avoid persecution.

3. Apologize publicly to the plaintiffs.

4. Bring all the perpetrators to justice.

Facts, Explanations and Legal Basis

According to Article 33 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, "The State should respect and protect human rights. Basic human rights include the right to live, the right to be educated, the right to possessions, the right to personal information, the right to know, the right to human dignity, the right to housing, the right to personal freedom, the right to express oneself, the right to religious freedom, the right to vote or to be voted into public office, the right to assemble, the right to parade/protest, etc." Through their own experiences and practice, practitioners have verified that Falun Gong has greatly benefited their physical and mental health. As a result, they are willing to practise Falun Gong of their own free wills. Practising Falun Gong is their basic human right, which should be respected. No organization or any person has the right to interfere or to take away their right to practise.

Since July 20, 1999, however, authorities of the Central Transportation Company, headed by Zhou Bingkai, have abused their power and ignored the laws while conducting an extended persecution of practitioners. The perpetrators have used illegal methods such as detention, beatings, extortion, harassment, ransacking homes, withholding pay, dismissal from professional positions, limiting personal freedom, forced labour camp sentences, brainwashing, and force-feeding. Their crimes have seriously violated these citizens' basic human rights, restricted their personal freedom, taken away their property and money, and sorely injured them and their families. Their deeds violated Articles 13, 33, 35, 37, and 39 of the Constitution and Articles 234 and 247 of the Criminal Law Code.

1. Facts

After July 20, 1999, perpetrators in the Central Transportation Company tried to force practitioners to write the "Three Statements." They threatened to fire the practitioners from their jobs if they didn't comply. They detained the practitioners that were unwilling to write the statements and extorted money from them. Furthermore, the persecutors monitored and harassed these practitioners for long periods of time. For instance, the practitioners were forced to report to the persecutors whenever they wanted to leave their homes. The perpetrators also followed the practitioners whenever they went out and tapped their phones. Sometimes the perpetrators called practitioners late at night and threatened them. Practitioners were followed even when they wanted to visit their parents. During holidays and the so-called "sensitive days," those responsible maintained tight control over the practitioners. Their actions have terrorized these practitioners for a long time, seriously harming their mental health and profoundly interfering with their normal lives.

In early 2000, the Central Transportation Company established a brainwashing centre at the training school. Those responsible hired guards for the brainwashing centre. Nearly all the practitioners in the company have been forced to attend brainwashing sessions at some point. They were not released from the centre unless they were "Reformed" and wrote the "Three Statements." During their detention the practitioners were not paid any salary and their family members were forced to deliver food to them every day. Xu Tingde and Wang Zhiqiang, the brainwashing centre directors, are under the control of both the Central Transportation Company and the local 610 Office. They used various methods to torture the practitioners. Every day they forced the practitioners to watch video programmes that slandered Teacher Li and Falun Dafa. They also tried to force the practitioners to give up their beliefs, threatening to fire them from their positions and send them to forced labour camps if they refused. Three practitioners refused to write the "Three Statements," so Zhou Bingkai issued orders for them to be sent to the Wangcun Brainwashing Centre of the 610 Office. In addition, each of the three practitioners was forced to pay 5,000 yuan in extortion money, which the authorities referred to as a "fine."

In 2001, the Central Transportation Company's brainwashing centre was listed as one of the major brainwashing centres by the Shengli Oil Field Management Bureau. The oil field's “610 Office” directly controlled the brainwashing centre. According to incomplete statistics, the oil field's “610 Office” sent more than 100 practitioners who work for the oil field to the Central Transportation Company's brainwashing centre. Currently, the perpetrators extort 100 yuan from each practitioner detained in the brainwashing centre every day, which they call "living expenses." Actually, 50 yuan is for the practitioner's living expenses, while the other 50 yuan is used to pay the collaborators who help to brainwash the practitioners. The money is taken out of the salaries of the detained practitioners. Many practitioners have had as much as 5,000 yuan extorted from them, others more than 10,000 yuan. In the brainwashing centre, many practitioners were beaten, some were detained for six months, and some were even detained for over a year. The practitioners lose all their personal freedoms in detention, as they are not allowed to make phone calls or meet with visitors or go outside. Nearly every detained practitioner has been beaten or cursed at. The perpetrators make up many "rules" and verbally insulted the practitioners on a regular basis. The persecutors often put practitioners in confinement cells as punishment. Wang Zhiqiang verbally abused female practitioners many times.

Five practitioners from the Central Transportation Company, went to the provincial government to appeal for Falun Gong and clarify the truth to the related government agencies, yet the Central Transportation Company and the Binhai Police Department detained the five practitioners and illegally ransacked their homes. They also extorted 2,000 yuan from each of them. During their detention, these practitioners were paid 300 yuan a month for living expenses instead of their regular salaries. They were also "fined" 50 yuan per day.

In 2004, the Central Transportation Company teamed up with the Jidi Police Department and spent about a month arresting practitioners and ransacking their homes.

One Specific Case

Mr. Jiang Haisong, a 30-year-old practitioner, is an employee of Shengli Oil Field's Central Transportation Company. Mr. Jiang was mentally and physically healthy. In February 2002, the Central Transportation Company arrested Jiang Haisong and detained him for a long time without reason. Guards from the company's Security Section also ransacked his home and took away his Falun Dafa books. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and requested the return of his books. On the eighth day of his hunger strike, the persecutors tricked him into going to the Shengli Oil Field Number 8 Factory's Mental Hospital by claiming they were taking him there for a medical exam. In the mental hospital, the perpetrators tied Mr. Jiang's hands and feet to a bed and forcefully administered drugs intended to destroy the central nervous system. He resisted and refused to take the drugs. The perpetrators then shocked him with an electric current. Five nurses held Mr. Jiang's limbs while Wang, the head nurse, turned the electric current to the maximum and touched the electrodes to Jiang's temples. Wang shocked him like that continuously while saying, "Let's see if you dare to refuse the drugs again. Here's a lesson!" The strong current shocked Mr. Jiang and caused unbearable pain. The pain was so severe that his body twitched violently, and he cried out wildly in misery. After 67 days of torture, Jiang Haisong was extremely pale, and he became mentally ill. The perpetrators then organized police guards to visit Mr. Jiang in the mental hospital, telling the guards, "Look, here is a person deceived by Falun Gong. He became insane as a result of practising Falun Gong." The persecutors often used this method to deceive people. Jiang Haisong's parents repeatedly went to the Central Transportation Company to request his release, but their requests were ignored. Unable to bear this huge tragedy, Jiang's mother suffered a mental collapse, and his father had a heart attack.

In 2003, because Jiang Haisong distributed truth-clarifying materials, the Central Transportation Company and Jidi Police Department sent him to the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp for a three-year term. During his detention, Mr. Jiang was again sent to Shengli Oil Field No.8 Factory's Mental Hospital for three months and was tortured there. Later on, Mr. Jiang managed to escape. Then he had no choice but to leave home and move from place to place to avoid capture. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Practitioners follow the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and try to become better people. They only want to persevere in their belief, have their basic human rights restored, and stop the persecution. None of this is wrong. The so-called "Brainwashing Center" illegally detained innocent practitioners for extended periods of time. The persecutors treated the detained practitioners as criminal inmates and insulted and attacked them. Their deeds violated the laws. Our government has emphasized over and again that everyone should respect the Constitution and that the country should be ruled by law.

According to the facts and the relevant laws, we have submitted our legal request above. We hope the relevant agencies can resolve the issue according to the law and their conscience, and restore justice, leaving a good future for society and for themselves.

Submitted on December 15th 2004, by practitioners and their family members who are associated with the Shengli Oil Field and the Central Transportation Company.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/12/20/91834.html