The Crimes Committed at Haidian District Police Department and the Haidian District Detention Centre in Beijing

In the last seven years, the Haidian District Police Department and its Detention Centre in Beijing have arrested and jailed many Falun Gong practitioners. Some of them were tortured to death or have become permanently disabled. On April 7th, 2006, the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) announced the first group of facilities targeted for investigation and evidence collection. The Qinghe Detention Centre in the Haidian District is one of them.

People may recall Zhao Xin, a respected teacher at Beijing's University of Business and Industry. When Zhao Xin went to do the Falun Dafa exercises on June 19th, 2000 in Zizhuyuan Park, she was arrested and detained in the Qinghe Detention Centre in the Haidian District. On June 22nd she was beaten until three vertebrae in her neck were fractured. Zhao Xin miraculously survived, but her injuries left her paralyzed. She could only move her head. After six months of suffering in unimaginable pain, Zhao Xin passed away on the evening of December 11th, 2000, at the age of 32.

Zhao Xin was seriously injured by Haidian District Police

1. Recent Arrest of Many Falun Gong practitioners from Haidian District
In the days leading up to October 1st, 2005 (China's National Day holiday) the police in Beijing arrested many practitioners. Haidian District Police Department agents arrested close to 30 practitioners including Bai Shaohua, Liu Haihong, Yan Peng, Liu Yujian. Many of them were later sentenced to a jail term or forced labour.

This year, agents from the Haidian police department were more rampant in their persecution. They also broke the law in other ways: when the police arrested practitioners they didn’t show any legal documents and didn’t inform practitioners’ families where they would take practitioners. After searching practitioners’ houses, police didn’t provide any lists of what they took away.

On May 18th and 19th, Haidian District Police Department and Qinghe Police Station agents arrested two practitioners from the Shunyi District. They are Yang Shijie and Wei Shuyun. Their whereabouts are unknown.

During the night of April 20th, Haidian District Police Department and Qinghe Police Station persecutors arrested practitioner Guo Shunqiang from his house. His whereabouts is unknown.

On April 15th, Haidian District Police Department and Huayuan Road Police Station arrested practitioner Song Xiuyun who is currently being held at the Qinghe Detention Centre in the Haidian District.
During the night of April 4th, claiming to be checking household registrations, Haidian District Police Department and Enjizhuang Police Station agents searched practitioners’ houses. They arrested practitioners from Qixian Village Resident Area in Haidian District. Their names are Wang Kuizan, her daughter Jiang Yahui and three other practitioners, including Chang Chunyu. We have heard that Wang Kuizan and her daughter were sentenced to two years of forced labour.

During the night of March 19th, Fu Hongyi and Li Jingtao from Haidian District Police Department took more than 10 policemen. They broke into the house of Fu Yongan and Liu Xianglan, retired employees from Qinghua University, and took away the couple and their visitor. They also searched Fu’s house and confiscated their computer. Fu and Liu are believed to be jailed in the Qinghe Detention Centre now.

2. Haidian District Police Department Agents rampantly persecute intellectuals

Many universities and research institutions are located in the Haidian District. There are many Falun Gong practitioners in Haidian District, too. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents tried all the tactics at their disposal to persecute those intellectuals who practise Falun Gong. Many employees from Qinghua University and from Beijing University were sentenced to forced labour and jail terms, which is directly related to the persecution by Haidian District Police Department officials.

Mr. Xu Yin, an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Qinghua University had been awarded the distinction Excellent Teacher and Model Employee several times. Due to his significant contribution in his research field, he had received several city level and national level academic awards. He was popular among colleagues and students. On March 14th, 2006, Haidian District Police Department persecutors arrested professor Xu Yin from his home. He was sentenced to two years of forced labour on April 13th for having Falun Gong materials at home.

Dr. Shen Yingbo, 43 year old, is a professor at Beijing's Forest University and the chairman of his department. He has published the most scientific articles at Beijing's Forest University. Nevertheless he had several times been arrested and jailed in detention centres and brainwashing classes because of his belief in Falun Dafa. On September 20th, 2003, he and other four practitioners were arrested from his home at the hands of Haidian District Police Department agents. He was later sentenced to three years in jail.
Mr. Zhang Wenge, 38 years old, is an associate professor at Beijing's Forest University. He is the principal researcher in his research group. He obtained his PhD degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In April 2000 he was sentenced to one year of forced labour because he appealed for Falun Gong. On September 20th, 2003, Haidian District Police Department agents searched his home and arrested him. His wife Tan Fang was arrested at the same time.

Mr. Li Baoqing is a renowned research fellow at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and an advisor for doctoral candidates. The Chinese Academy of Sciences awarded him the distinction of Excellent Researcher in Significant Research Projects. He was listed in the Dictionary of International Biography, published by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England. Such a renowned scientist had been jailed just because he practises Falun Gong.

Ms. Liu Jinghang is Dr. Li Baoqing’s wife. She was sentenced to three years of jail. She is in Australia now.

3. United Nations takes note of several cases of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted by Haidian District Police Department

Ms. Li Shulan was arrested on November 30th, 2000 and taken to Haidian District Police Department. The police stripped off all her clothing except for her underwear and put her in a cell, where she was reportedly severely beaten by other inmates allegedly urged on by the guards. Her hair was pulled and her head knocked against a wall. A towel was tightly tied around her neck to choke her until she lost consciousness. Her eyelids, face, breast and chest were pierced with a ballpoint pen. Despite her poor condition, the police subjected her to electric shocks. Li Shulan reportedly underwent a hunger strike to protest this treatment. According to the information received she suffered from vaginal bleeding, and part of her body remained numb for a year. When she was released one year later she was unable to walk normally.

Practitioner Yoko Kaneko (Luo Rong) who lives in Japan was also arrested and sentenced to forced labour by Haidian District Police Department agents. She was badly tortured at the Women's Forced Labour Camp in Beijing.

4. Haidian District Police Department often arrests and tortures Falun Gong practitioners from other places

Mr. Xu Chengben is from Shandong Province. He was jailed in the Haidian Detention Centre in Beijing. He recalled the persecution that he has experienced, "At the end of 2000, I was jailed in the Haidian Detention Centre where the police directed the inmates to torture me. They stripped me and carried me outside where no one could see, and then poured cold water over me continuously for over an hour. I was shivering all over. Then I was forced to stretch my arms on a wall, with my head down. With my legs barely touching the ground, the inmates used their knees to strike my buttocks. They also filled up a water bottle and attached it to my penis with a string. Then they whipped the bottle around whichever way they wanted. Three or four inmates were surrounding me and didn’t allow me to sleep for four days. As soon as I dozed off, they slapped me in the face and used a rolled up piece of paper to poke at my nose and ears. It was so painful that I was in tears."

Another practitioner recalled his experience of being tortured in the Haidian Detention Centre, "My face was beaten until it was distorted beyond recognition, with wounds covering its entirety. Anyone who saw my face at that time would have been horrified. My chest was also beaten so badly that I had difficulty breathing and could not stop coughing. Coughing caused me to double over in severe pain. To further torture Falun Gong practitioners, the Haidian District Detention Centre created a device that had a sharp side pointing up regardless how it was placed on the ground. The sharp edge was about 4 centimetres (less than 0.39 inches) high. When I was forced to sit on this torture stool, the sharp edges cut into my flesh and hurt severely. This torture usually lasted 4 to 5 hours. There were also other torture methods such as forced squatting, forced standing, forced feeding, spinning practitioners around, pushing and shoving, brutal shaking, forced drug feeding, and other types of methods that I had never heard in society."
"The unknown drugs they force-fed me included yellow, white and some colourless substances. The drugs were known to destroy peoples' nervous systems and render people disabled or paralyzed. In the Haidian Detention Centre, the perpetrators held a cup of liquid drug and ordered me to drink it. I tried to resist, but seven to eight persecutors jumped on me and forced the drug into my mouth. They used a metal instrument to force my mouth open and forced a cup of the drug into my mouth."

Haidian District National Security Division, 86-10-82519350
Haidian District Police Department, 86-10-82519110
Police Department Head: Jing, and Zhang Weigang, 86-10-82519110
Political Commissar: Wang Jucheng
Discipline Inspection Committee of the Haidian District Police Department: 86-10-82519180

Haidian District Detention Centre:
25 Longgang Road, Qinghe, Haidian District, Beijing 100085
Detention Centre head, Bai Gang, 86-10-62902266 ext 3500 or 3582; BP, 86-10-62628566-5339
Detention Centre head, Zhu Yuchao: 86-10-62902266 ext 3711
Officer Zhu Feng: 86-10-82883420
Qinghe Detention Centre in the Haidian District:
Chief: Sun Aijun, 86-10-62902266-3702(Office), 86-13801008998 (Mobile)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/6/7/129839.html