Qingdao City's current brainwashing centre hides its true identity with signs hanging up in front of the entrance, which say "Qingdao City Massage Instruction Centre for People with Visual Impairment" and "National Appraisal Centre for Professional Skills." However, none of these places exist. All of the windows are equipped with strong steel railings.
Most of the Falun Dafa practitioners who are detained in the brainwashing centre were arrested and sent there by police stations in Qingdao City and the surrounding districts, towns, and counties. There are also some practitioners who were transferred here for further persecution when they completed their terms in other forced labour camps. Since 2002, Qingdao City has been accepting practitioners who have completed their terms at other forced labour camps. People from the "610 Office" (1) send them directly to the brainwashing centre, where they are required to stay at least one month.
When practitioner Ms. Gao Mingxia was sent to the local forced labour camp for the second time, the authorities there was afraid that she would affect the people who had given in to the brainwashing, and they initially refused to accept her. The Qingdao City 610 Office then sent a valuable gift to bribe the officials of the forced labour camp. Later on, Ms. Gao was sent to the brainwashing centre for 11 months. In April or May 2004, Ms. Gao was again sent to the forced labour camp.
The staff at the 610 Office said that when the police department intends to persecute certain practitioners for a criminal prosecution without any evidence, they can just send the practitioners to the brainwashing centre and let it take care of the responsibility for detention. This can be done because the brainwashing centre can detain anyone without reason, and there is also no limit on the duration of the detention. Evidence is required to put someone in criminal detention, and the duration of detention can't exceed one month. While the victim is being detained, the police department then takes its time to search for so-called "evidence." After they find some so-called "evidence," they will send the practitioners from the brainwashing centre directly to a forced labour camp or prison. This happened in the case of practitioner Ms. Su Jun, who was arrested after being detained at the brainwashing centre for a few months. She is imprisoned at the Qingdao City Detention Centre to this day.
A leader of the 610 Office has openly said to Falun Gong practitioners that every year the rental expenses for the brainwashing centre costs the state almost 100,000 yuan.(2)
The 610 Office has established branch offices in each district and county in Qingdao City. Cadres who specialize in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners often came to these offices to learn how to persecute practitioners and Falun Gong.
Geng Shixiang, a 58-year-old male, is the former Associate General Secretary of Qingdao City's North District Political and Judical Committee. His wife, Chen Jing, is a Qingdao City Central Hearing Impairment School retired teacher, and she has negative opinions towards Falun Dafa as well. Since June 10, 1999, Geng has been the Qingdao City's North District 610 Office manager, and he has set up many brainwashing centres where he has detained practitioners who hold on to their beliefs. Since July 20, 1999, the Qingdao City's North District has been the district where practitioners are persecuted most severely. He received so much credit for forcing practitioners to renounce their beliefs through persecution that the Qingdao City 610 Office hired him again after he retired in 2001. For the time being, he still often sets up brainwashing sessions and continues to persecute practitioners. As one of the people directly in charge of the city 610 Office, he is directly or indirectly associated with all the illegal cases of sentencing, including sentences to forced labour camps and the detaining of Falun Gong practitioners.
The number of practitioners known to have been persecuted to death in Qingdao City has reached 25. In addition to the 23 deaths already published on the Internet, Wang Lei and Liu Su'e have also died as a result of the persecution. The details in their cases are being confirmed. In Qingdao City alone, over 20 practitioners have been illegally sentenced. Among them, many people received seven-to-ten-year sentences. The number of people who have been detained at the forced labor camp has reached 100, and almost every practitioner in the area has been illegally detained, detained in police custody, or received forced brainwashing. Many of them have been detained and forced to receive brainwashing sessions many times.
Family address: Apt 102, Portal 2, No.7 Building, 66 Yanji Road, North District, Qingdao City
Tel: 86-532-5010070
Mobile: 86-13583206503
Note:
(1) "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.
(2) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/27/94170.html
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