Exposing the Crimes of Yin Shuiping, Head of the 610 Office in Hunan Province

Yin Shuiping is the head of Yongxing County's 610 Office¹. He is from Ruilai Township, Yongxing County, and has been working in the county government for years. After the Chinese Communist regime started to persecute Falun Gong, he got promoted. In order to gain a reputation and serve his personal interests, he did not differentiate goodness from evil and has committed so many crimes against those who practise righteous cultivation that they cannot all be counted. Moreover, he doesn't regret his behaviour at all. The following is an expose of his evil acts.

1. Illegally searching and stealing from practitioners' homes

In the past several years, Yin Shuiping has led police officers to intrude into many practitioners' homes and conduct illegal searches without official permits. The searches have occurred in the daytime, evening, night or early morning. Each time they break into several homes. They usually start by threatening and trying to deceive the practitioners, saying, "Someone reported you to the police." Then they rummage through chests and boxes looking for Dafa books or materials. In the end, they smash the electric appliances, break the furniture, and destroy the doors and windows. They take away anything of value. For example, one practitioner had prepared new furniture worth 4000 yuan² for his son who was going to get married. The police took the entire set of furniture to the township government office. Later the practitioner's family paid 600 yuan to get only a portion of the furniture back. The police have even taken away things like bags of rice, vegetable oil, peanuts and vegetables. Some practitioners have endured having their homes searched five or six times. About 50 families have suffered such robbery to differing degrees.

2. Arresting, detaining, and sentencing practitioners

If they find any Dafa books or materials as they are searching the homes, the police not only take away all the materials but also illegally arrest the practitioners immediately. After interrogation, they then hand the practitioners over to the detention centre. More than 60 practitioners have been detained in such circumstances. More than half of them have been detained more than twice. Some have even been detained six times. Those who are detained for distributing materials exposing the persecution or for telling people, who had been misled by the government propaganda, the facts about Falun Dafa and exposing the persecution are persecuted more severely. About 20 people have been sentenced to forced labour camps and five sentenced to prison, with a maximum term up to nine years. (That case was handled by another county.)

3. Brutally torturing practitioners

After practitioners are arrested, they are subjected to brutal beatings. They are kicked or punched, slammed in the face, forced to kneel down, handcuffed, shackled, or both, shocked with electric batons, burnt with cigarettes, or whipped with leather straps. Some are also brutally force-fed. When one practitioner was force-fed in the detention centre, the police held her hair and pushed her down on the ground. Several others held her hands, feet, head, and chest. They maliciously used a bamboo tube with one end sharpened and inserted it into her mouth, breaking one tooth and causing a great deal of bleeding. They still continued the force feeding, opening her mouth with the bamboo tube and pouring salt water through it. The sharpened bamboo caused punctures around her whole mouth, which filled with blood. Such inhuman tortures have taken place many times.

4. Holding brainwashing sessions

In order to try to "brainwash" practitioners, they held brainwashing sessions. However, they all ended unsuccessfully. For example, in December 2004 the county 610 Office held a brainwashing session and ordered related work units to send practitioners. One responsible person from each workplace was also told to attend. Each attendee was told to pay 1800 yuan for the class. However, the practitioners as well as the workplace were all strongly opposed. Yin Shuiping blamed the related leaders, "Use any measures necessary to get people to attend; otherwise you will be responsible." Giving in under Yin's despotic power, a workplace would send six or seven people to break into a practitioner's home at night and carry the practitioner away. When a certain workplace did not cooperate with Yin, he personally led several police to the residential building where the practitioner lived. They waited in the car near the building. When the practitioner came back from a farmers market, several police showed up and quickly pulled her to the car. The practitioner was even not allowed to take the vegetables home. A practitioner took the whole family and left home when hearing the news of this persecution. Yin kept harassing the work unit that the practitioner worked for and threatened the unit to pay the class "tuition" of 1800 yuan. He was refused face to face. There were about 20 practitioners who suffered such "concentration camp-type" persecution.

5. Extorting money and valuables from practitioners

During each home search, in the name of law, the unscrupulous authorities in fact commit the crime of theft by extorting money from the practitioners as a so-called "fine." For example, a township leader with four or five cadres broke into a practitioner's home late at night. They beat whoever came their way and rummaged through chests and boxes. They took away a bankbook with more than 21,000 yuan in it and later managed to illegally draw the money out of bank. After paying the so-called "fines," most people were not given any receipts or were just given handwritten ones. The money actually went into the pockets of the police. We are aware of nearly 80 people who have been fined, blackmailed or robbed by their work units to the tune of nearly 500,000 yuan in cash; 3,000 yuan in property valuables; and 35,000 yuan in fines. We challenge the law enforcement and human rights organisations to investigate how these "fines" are used. Return these victims' money and property. Reestablish fair treatment and stop persecuting Dafa. We will seek legal redress.

6. Violating personal freedom

All local practitioners are under close watch by their work units, the 610 Office, the police station, and the resident community committee. Those who are regarded as key figures are even monitored 24 hours a day. During the holidays they are told to show up at specific locations to "sign in." About 100 people have been called day and night and harassed. They have been arrested walking down the street. For example, two years ago a practitioner was walking along a street with a plastic bag in her hand. Yin Shuiping saw her and stopped her. A few minutes later, a police car arrived and the practitioner was taken to the police station and later to the detention centre. She was released after paying a fine.

7. Abuse of power

Besides persecuting practitioners themselves, Yin also targets their friends and relatives and even their workplaces. One day, Yin went to a workplace and then illegally broke into a practitioner's home. When he discovered some materials, he immediately went to the workplace and threatened the head of the unit, "You did not manage your employee well. Do you want to keep your position?" The workplace head immediately agreed to pay the fine and also agreed to pay their hotel and entertainment costs. Once Yin wanted to go to Yuelai Hot Spring to enjoy himself but he didn't have much money, so he brought several local police officers to a practitioner's home. They illegally ransacked it, smashing furniture and searching carefully, which created a horrible scene. When the Dafa books were found, Yin started to knock on the top of the table, scolding and threatening, then "sweet-talking." Once they got the money, they immediately rushed out and went to the hot spring.

The 610 Office personnel have all kinds of privileges and yet resort to all kinds of tactics to persecute practitioners. No other government branches dare to get involved. No one is to question or investigate them. Moreover, this reprehensible organisation is often praised by their Chinese Communist Party (CCP) superiors and rewarded with funds that come from the common people. With power and money, they are unrestrained in their continued persecution of Falun Gong.

The people long for "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." Upholding "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" is safeguarding essential human morality. If more people stand up and call for righteousness, will those without principles dare to continue doing bad things so flagrantly?

Yin Shuiping's mobile phone: 86-13973538472

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/2006/1/5/118086.html