Ever since July 20th, 1999, officials and policemen in Cangxi County, Sichuan Province, have followed Jiang Zemin's policy of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
The officials are still cruelly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. According to incomplete statistics, in the years between July 20th, 1999, and January 2007, they have persecuted nearly 200 Falun Gong practitioners by searching their homes, confiscating property, extorting fines from them and arresting them, and taking them to detention centres and brainwashing centres. Approximately 30 practitioners have been sentenced to prisons or labour camp terms.
In February 2000, six practitioners were arrested and sent to the county detention centre after they had gone to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. They were all sentenced to one or one and a half years of forced labour.
In 2001, six practitioners were arrested, had money extorted from them, and were sentenced to jail or forced labour for telling people the truth about Falun Gong and distributing leaflets exposing the persecution to people.
In 2002, agents from the county government and police attempted to set up a brainwashing centre but failed. Around July 2004, they arrested 28 practitioners and subjected them to brainwashing. They forced everyone to pay 5,000 to 8,000 yuan1 to attend. Concurrently, agents from the National Security Division wantonly searched the homes of more than 100 practitioners and confiscated their property. The agents threatened the practitioners, bullied them, and extorted money from them ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 yuan. They also forced them to write a "guarantee letter" not to practise Falun Gong, otherwise they would be taken to the brainwashing centre.
In 2005, agents from the county 610 Office2 again subjected all county practitioners to additional persecution by forcing them to sign a "giving up Falun Gong" survey registration form. Any practitioners that refused to sign had money extorted from them or were taken to the brainwashing centre.
In January 2006, policemen again searched the homes of practitioners who spoke out for justice and explained the facts about Falun Dafa to people and confiscated their property. The police took them to the detention centre and persecuted them. They had money extorted from them and were sent to a labour camp.
In August 2006, the police arrested practitioner Ms. Yan Zongfang for exposing the persecution. She was sentenced to two years of forced labour.
In September 2006, agents from the county 610 Office arrested all the Falun Gong practitioners in the county batch by batch, sent them to a brainwashing centre in the county guest house, and made them pay a 2,000 yuan attendance fee.
On January 8th, 2007, police and Huishui Township officials took practitioners Ms. Wang Xiaohong and Mr. Yang Zhengming to the county detention centre. On January 9th, 2007, Cangxi County police officers went to Langzhong City to search practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaohong's home. They couldn't find anything they wanted. Before they left they took her VCD player. On January 10th, the police returned to Langzhong City and searched the home of practitioner Mr. Yang Zhengming without any of his relatives being present. They didn't find anything. On January 13th they returned once more and took Yang Zhengming's 70-year-old mother, sister, and brother to Mr. Yang's home where they threatened and bullied his family members to give them his computer and printer.
In order to force practitioners to give up their beliefs as well as get information, Cangxi County police officers used the most base and venomous methods, such as deception, violence and beating, and forcing practitioners to stand and/or kneel for long periods of time. Other abusive tactics were: filling the nose with water, forbidding toilet use, heavy shackles and handcuffs, binding practitioners on the Death Bed3 and beating female practitioners' breasts and genitalia. They also extorted from 3,000 to 10,000 yuan from practitioners' family members.
In August 2001, practitioner Ms. Yan Zongfang was arrested and taken to the Longshan Police Station for distributing Falun Gong materials. They then sent her to the detention centre for persecution. She was handcuffed to a metal bed for 57 days, with her arms and legs severely stretched in four directions. She had to relieve herself on the bed. The police forbade her to take a shower. During the hot summer she became smelly and itchy. She also had constipation for several days. Her hands and feet were swollen and her fingers were numb. She was in much pain. She demanded to be set free of the bed. Police Station chief He Yongfu responded viciously, "A killer can escape from here, but not you! We have to keep you handcuffed on this metal bed until you are sentenced to a labour camp. Then you can be out of this bed." The other officer Zheng snarled, "Not only will we not let you go, we will also bundle you up tightly! We want to torture you to death!" Ms. Yan was sentenced to four years in prison.
After practitioner Mr. Yang Shixuan was arrested, the policemen knocked him down on the ground and kicked and punched him with their hands and boots. He was forbidden to sleep or use the toilet. The policemen poured water into his nose and made him kneel on a wooden stool.
After practitioner Ms. Li Guangqing was taken to a brainwashing centre, they pulled off all her clothes and bound her onto the Death Bed to try to make her renounce her belief. She couldn't move. About ten people pummelled her with their fists and kicked her with their boots. They also put a helmet on her head and covered her face with a cloth.
Practitioner Ms. Wang Shifang is a high school teacher at Wenchang High School. After the police found out she had established a a site producing leaflets exposing the persecution, they arrested her, took her to the county detention centre, and kicked and punched her with their hands and boots. They deprived her of sleep for six days. She was sentenced to ten years in prison. Her non-practitioner husband was implicated and sentenced to four years. The police furthermore arrested Ms. Wang's sister and brother-in-law. They received sentences of four years in prison and three years of forced labour, respectively. They left a six-year-old and a three-year-old child at home. Their grandparents, who are in their 70s, are the children's caretakers.
The police arrested practitioner Mr. Zeng Yuxian for distributing materials and badly beat him. They burned him with an electric iron. Mr. Zeng was sentenced to five years in prison.
The officials in Cangxi County misuse their power and unscrupulously persecute good people who practise according to "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." There are two reasons they do this. First, for money. According to incomplete statistics, as of July 20th, 1999, the policemen have extorted tens of thousand of yuan from practitioners without giving them any receipts. Second, these people have already lost their sense of humanity. They are completely without conscience and are committing bad deeds without considering the spiritual consequences.
Officials and policemen persecuting practitioners:
Former Party Committee Secretary Luo Xianping, current county Party Committee Secretary, Zhou Jin, and county Party Committee Deputy Secretaries Liu Wenlong, Liu Rongxiao and Yang Zongli. Also involved are the former deputy secretary of the Politics and Law Committee, former 610 Office Head Xu Yunzong, current 610 Office Head Ke Dajie, current secretary of the Politics and Law Committee Zhang Yong, Police Department Head Peng Guanglin, Police Department Political Head Zhang Qiwei, and Deputy Police Department Head Luo Changmao. The following individuals are secret agents from the National Security Division: Hou Xiangyu, Yue Gang, Gou Dongsheng, and others.
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
2. "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.
3. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/2/5/148290.html
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