The Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in the Tianjin Bohai Sea Petroleum Group

After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20th, 1999, the authorities at the Bohai Petroleum Group in Tianjin City set up a so-called "Falun Gong Treatment Group" and "Special Case Group" specifically for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. This has caused close to one hundred Falun Gong practitioners and their family members to suffer tremendous mental, physical and financial hardships. Within six years, nearly one hundred people have been detained, sentenced, sent to labour camps, sent to drug rehabilitation centres, fired from their jobs, had their homes ransacked, possessions confiscated, and their wages cut. The following are accounts of just some of the persecution cases of practitioners in the Bohai Petroleum Group.

Ms. Liang Meixi, 55, was an employee at the Bohai Petroleum Group Employees' Hospital. At the beginning of 2002 she told people, who had been misled by the government propaganda, the facts about Falun Dafa and exposed the persecution about Falun Gong, and was unlawfully sentenced to three and a half years in prison. While being tortured at the Tianjin City Women's Prison, her diabetes reappeared. When Ms. Liang returned home in August 2005, she was blind, could hardly move, and she couldn't take care of herself. Moreover, Ms. Liang, a widow with a daughter, had been fired from her workplace without any pay. She didn't have any workers' compensation or medical insurance to pay her medical expenses. On November 26th, 2005, Ms. Liang Meixi suddenly went into shock and lost consciousness, and was taken to the hospital for emergency rescue by her daughter and others. She was diagnosed as having diabetic acidosis.

At the end of May 2005, simply for going on the Internet, Bohai Petroleum Group Design Corporation worker Ms. Wang Yanying was sent to and persecuted at the Zhaojiadi Lockup in the Tanggu District for the third time by the company police and National Security personnel from the Tanggu District Police Office. Under persecution for many years, Ms. Wang Yanying developed a psychological condition and sometimes entered a catatonic state. Now the labour contract she signed with the company is set to expire, and the unlawful people at her workplace threatened that if she didn't sign, guaranteeing to renounce practising Falun Dafa, they will not renew her contract. Ms. Wang Yanying is 43 years of age this year. She was pregnant when she was arrested and jailed in the psychiatric ward. She was forced to take medications and take injections of drugs for psychiatric treatment. Ms. Wang was not released until she was just about to go into labour. Later, she was arrested again and tortured at the Dagang District Banqiao Forced Labour Camp, during which time as many as twelve convicts struck her head with electric batons all at once.

Ms. Li Yanxia has experienced the persecution many times, which caused her body and mind to suffer much harm. In September 1999, because she went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa, she was jailed at the Tanggu Lockup for eight months. Because she was firm in her belief in the greatness of Falun Dafa, her workplace forcibly took her to the Tanggu Drug Rehabilitation Centre, where she was brainwashed from mid-February 2001 to the end of April. While there she suffered severe mental trauma. She refused to sign the guarantee statement to give up practising Falun Dafa, so the authorities sent her to a detention centre and subsequently to a forced labour camp. Because Ms. Li Yanxia refused to renounce her belief, she was jailed for two and a half years. In prison she was made to sit on a wooden stool or stand still facing the wall for long periods of time as punishment. She was forced to watch television programmes slandering Falun Gong. In September 2003 when Li Yanxia was released, she had already been fired by her workplace. In early May, 2004, Ms. Li was seized in her home, and was persecuted in the Tanggu Lockup for six months. At that time, her 70-year-old mother was terrified. Afterwards, the unlawful personnel from the residence committee came to her home to force her to sign the guarantee statement, as well as threaten to go to her workplace to find her husband.

Ms. Li Weizhen was detained for a month when she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa in January 2001. After she came back, her company only paid her 75 yuan¹ per month, although she was at work every day. In January 2002, Li Weizhen clarified the truth to validate Dafa, and was illegally sentenced to three years and six months in prison. While in prison, Ms. Li was beaten and abused to the point that she only had a few good teeth left. After all the mental and physical suffering, Ms. Li was fired by her workplace.

Mr. Cai worked at the Bohai Petroleum Group Communications Company doing wireless repair work. When he was 40 years of age, at the company physical he was discovered to have high blood pressure, and artery diseases of the heart and brain. All of a sudden his mental pressure increased dramatically. Mr. Cai started practising Falun Gong, and his body and mind all benefited tremendously. After July 20th, 1999, because of rumours of the various media and pressure from the authorities, Mr. Cai was deceived and gave up cultivation. One day at work he had symptoms of stroke. He has been in a vegetative state ever since undergoing surgery, and is still in the hospital.

Contact Information:

Bohai Petroleum Group
Employees' Hospital Party Committee Secretary, Liu Jinshan: 86-22-25808731
Company chief hotline: 86-22-25801717
Design Company: 86-22-25808505
Criminal Police Brigade: 86-22-6691589
Transportation Company party secretary, Wang Guoqing: 86-22-66916305
Research Institute Party Committee secretary, He Xiangqin: 86-22-25808410

Hydroelectricity Company Party Committee secretary, Liu Zhenhua: 86-22-66910777

Company Party Committee chief, Zhao Tong: 86-22-25807245
Public Security Office Political Defence Branch, Yang Xiancai: 86-22-66916603
Bohai Petroleum Public Security Subdivision, National Defence branch chief, Chang Zirong

Note

1. "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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/12/21/116994.html