Crimes Committed by the Chinese Communist Party in Sanmenxia City, Henan Province against Dafa Practitioners

1. Ms. Zhang Zhunli was beaten to death

Because Ms. Zhang Zhunli practised Falun Gong, police officers from the Shan County Police Department beat her to death. According to her family, when they arrested Ms. Zhang, she was very healthy and had no illnesses. Within two days of her arrest, she was covered with injuries from being beaten. In the end, she lost consciousness and they threw her out of a window from the second floor. They said that she jumped and committed suicide. The police officers made up a false scenario and transported her body to the Shan County No. 2 Hospital for emergency treatment. But in fact they transported a dead body. Finally they moved Zhang Zhunli's body to the gate of the hospital's morgue. Her family was not allowed to visit and when they arrived, they were denied the right to see her.

After they had exhausted every possible means of redress, the family displayed a banner at the intersection of the West Station, which read, "Return My Mother." It attracted close to a thousand onlookers. Some people were indignant, asking what kind of law-enforcement is it that beats people to death! In the end, everybody in the area was arrested and put into vans. No one knew where they were being taken.

Later we learned that the police transported them to a quiet place and released them. At that time, there were six vans full of arrested people. Many of these people were local, from the same village, and knew each other well. When they learned that people were being arrested, they went to stop it, but were also arrested. Sometimes, when the police arrived and tried to arrest one person, several people would stand up in order to protect that person, and then all of them were arrested.

Reference: Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Zhunli Tortured to Death in Shan County, Henan Province

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/2/27/70366.html

2. Zhang Xiaomin tortured nearly to disability

Mr. Zhang Xiaomin was 61 years old. In February 2006 the police arrested him. Early in the morning, they secretly sent him to the Shan County Detention Centre. After they had tortured him almost to disability, they were afraid of losing their reputation and therefore sent Mr. Zhang to Lingbao Detention Centre. At the beginning of his detention, he weighed around 85 kilogrammes, but in the end, due to being tortured, he was extremely skinny and did not even weigh 25 kilogrammes. When his family visited him they could not recognise him.

At Lingbao Detention Centre, Zhang Xiaomin again suffered brutal torture. They ordered him to reveal the source of his leaflets exposing the persecution and office machines that he had at home, as well as his contacts. Mr. Zhang did not say a word. In the end they tortured him to the point where he could not breathe. They then sent him to the Lingbao People's Hospital for emergency treatment. Two days after this treatment, he was revived. Only then did they notify his family. When his family visited him, none of them were able to recognise him. The authorities sent him to the hospital on October 6th and notified his family on October 8th. After over 20 days of treatments, they again sent him back to the detention centre. His family requested bail in order to get him more medical treatment, but the authorities denied it.

3. Ms. Wang Xiuhua and Ms. Niu Niu tortured and sentenced to one year of forced labour

In February 2005, practitioners Ms. Wang Xiuhua and Ms. Niu Niu, workers at the Sanmenxia West Section, were arrested by police officers from the Dawang Police Station when they distributed truth-clarification materials in Dawang Town, Lingbao. They were first sent to Lingbao Detention Centre for interrogation, but they did not reveal any information. These two practitioners were firm and did not yield. Regardless of the severity of the torture or beatings they had to endure, they did not say anything. In the end, they were sentenced to one year of forced labour, and sent to the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City. Currently, they are still in the labour camp.

4. Ms. Qu Yinfang, Mr. Liu Shemei, and Ms. Li Guilian secretly arrested

In October 2006, when practitioner Ms. Qu Yinfang from Huang Village distributed leaflets exposing the persecution, police officers secretly arrested her. Her current whereabouts are unknown. Participants in the arrest were police officers from the Shan County Police Department and the Daying Town Police Station. During the same month, Mr. Liu Shemei and Ms. Li Guilian were also secretly arrested by police officers and taken to the Shan County Detention Centre because they posted leaflets. Even though these practitioners had to endure brutal tortures, they did not reveal any information that would endanger other practitioners. In the end, they were secretly sent to Shibalihe.

5. The tribulations of a university student

While studying at a university, a practitioner explained the facts about Falun Dafa to other students at the university. As a result, the university authorities expelled him. When he returned home, police officers from the Shan County Police Department arrested him, because he had been speaking the truth about Dafa and the persecution. They sent him to Xuchang Labour Camp in Henan Province for 18 months of forced labour. After his release, the police suspected that he had written Falun Gong posters exposing the persecution, even though he had not. Other practitioners witnessed that this practitioner was arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre at the Sanmenxia City Party School. In the centre, in order to protest the unreasonable persecution, he started a hunger strike. On the third day of his detention, police officers couldn't do much, and then notified his family that they would start to force-feed him. (They usually use a mixture of cold water with milk powder and feed people through a rubber tube inserted into their stomach.) His family came to the brainwashing centre and reasoned with the authorities and only then did they cancel the force-feeding.

The authorities released him after two months of torture at the brainwashing centre. Yet the local police did not allow him to go home. They took turns interrogating him from 6:00 p.m. in the afternoon until 8:00 a.m. the next morning, but they could not get any information from him. The police officers ran out of options and therefore had to release him. During this period, this practitioner had made marriage arrangements, but due to the continual persecution, these arrangements fell through three times. The first time, he was just about to get married, but his sentencing destroyed the wedding plans. The second and third times were because he was arrested without reason and no wedding could take place.

Before his arrest, every time he went somewhere, he was followed and watched. Even during the night, when he was sleeping, he was watched. In the winter, several people were stationed around his residence and took turns watching him day and night. Among those people were a deputy village head, a village party secretary, and personnel from the 610 Office¹ in this town. These people acted like hoodlums and the methods and means they used were not performed in an open and upright manner; they were all done in secrecy. Sometimes if one's door was not closed, they would break in at any time.

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.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/11/18/142722.html