Accounts of Brutal Persecution of Practitioners in Yishui County, Shandong Province

The Persecution of Ms. Xiang Guiying

Ms. Xiang Guiying spent five days in a brainwashing session held at Yangxi Middle School, starting on July 20th, 1999. After being fined 250 yuan¹, she was transferred to Qili Middle School for another three days of persecution.

On February 2nd, 2000, Ms. Xiang went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. She was arrested by the police and imprisoned in Beijing for 14 days. After she returned to Yishui County, Ms. Xiang was detained at the local suburban police station. There she encountered Li Hongwei and Wang Jianjun, who brutally beat her head and face with a rubber stick for more than half an hour. They also threw her jacket outside the cell so that she would freeze. Later, she was transferred to the suburban brainwashing centre for 15 days. Police officer Xin Wenfeng at the Chengnan local police station extorted 1,200 yuan in cash from her.

On March 10th, 2000 Ms. Xiang was arrested outside a neighbour's home for no reason and sent to the detention centre for 15 days. (According to those who detained her, Li Hongwei gave the order for her arrest.) She had to give them 200 yuan for "living expenses." On March 30th, Xiang Guiying was detained again by the street committee for more than 40 days. Later, she was transferred to the Ge Village Brainwashing Centre and brutally persecuted for 30 days. Her family members were also forced to accompany her. They were forced to pay 4,200 yuan, of which 1,200 yuan was billed as "living expenses."

On January 26th, 2001, Ms. Xiang visited Su Li. When they were having dinner, Ms. Xiang was arrested by police officer Xin Wenfeng and taken to Chengnan Police Station. She was detained for one day.

The Persecution of Ms. Wang Yuzhi

One evening around July 20th, 1999, Wang Fuwen and He Fengjun entered and ransacked Ms. Wang Yuzhi's home. They snatched her tape recorder and exercise tape. The next day, Wang Shulin, Wang Fuwen, He Fengjun, and others arrested Ms. Wang and took her to the production brigade. Under Town Secretary Li's orders, they forced Ms. Wang to sit on the floor with her legs straight. Three to four people beat her for two to three hours until she lost consciousness. Later, she was taken to Yaodianzi Police Station for further persecution. She was not allowed to sleep for six days. At one point she stretched her arms out straight and was punished for doing so by having to remain in a squatting position. She was not allowed to move for the entire day. She trembled with pain and exhaustion and sweat profusely. Cheng Shibo also made Ms. Wang stay in a squatting position and beat her mercilessly with a wooden board. They once beat her for five to six hours. They beat her and swore at her at the same time. She was beaten black and blue over her entire body. The skin on her buttocks was broken and bleeding. Later, Wang Yuzhi was transferred to the brainwashing centre at the Yaodianzi Centre School. They forced her to watch a TV program that slandered Dafa and Master. If she refused to watch it, she was beaten and punished by being forced to stand for a long time. The authorities also threatened her father, telling him that Ms. Wang would not be released unless he paid 400,000 yuan. Ms. Wang Yuzhi was imprisoned for 13 days and fined 1,100 yuan.

In the autumn of 1999, Wang Fuwen and He Fengjun arrested Ms. Wang and took her from her home to the Yishandian courtyard and detained her in a darkened room. She was pregnant at the time. Two people beat her to the ground. They kicked her from her head to her buttocks. This lasted three to four hours, until she could not stand up. However, they forced her to stand up and then to remain in a squatting position. They made her stretch her arms out straight and put several heavy steel bars on top of them. Then they brutally beat her until she could no longer see. Her whole body was black and blue and swollen, and she was unable to move. They didn't stop beating her for 24 hours. They also extorted another 3,000 yuan from her mother.

Three days later, Wang Yuzhi was sent to the Shantong Township Legislature Department's brainwashing centre. Under Niu Qichao's orders, Judicial Manager Li Ming and his accomplice Bai (surname), Zhao (surname), and Village Secretary Zhang Xuexiang brutally tortured Ms. Wang. A 40-year-old man from the Planning Office insulted Ms. Wang and ordered her to abort her child. One morning when Li Mingcheng saw that nobody was around, he stripped off Ms. Wang's clothes and verbally abused her. Ms. Wang was imprisoned for 13 days and was forced to give them 2,300 yuan.

In October 2000, Wang Yuzhi was waiting to deliver her baby in Yishui Luzhangpo. A person surnamed Zhang from Yishui Cotton Weaving Plant led a group of police officers to surround her family. They wanted to seize her husband. (Her practitioner husband was an employee of the cotton weaving plant who was forced to be homeless in order to avoid arrest and persecution. He had been sent to Wang Village Forced Labour Camp for three years.) They harassed her family day and night.

On August 14th, 2001, Wu Shichuan, Duan Lianren, and Zhang Xuebin forced Ms. Wang's mother-in-law to hand over 2,000 yuan. Her parents-in-law cried the entire night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Niu Qichao and Li Mingcheng also forced Wang Yuzhi to live in the same room with her father-in-law. They locked the door and did not allow them to leave for a long time. On September 17th, the child had a fever and the room was locked. Ms. Wang yelled loudly but nobody responded.

One afternoon in November 2001, as she was hugging her sick child while sitting on the bed, Wu Shichuan and Liu Juan suddenly burst into their room with a group of people. They took Ms. Wang to the Yang Village Police Station for one night. Niu Qichao and Liu Juan, together with people from the Yishui 610 Office² then took her to Linyi Brainwashing Centre again. They not only persecuted Ms. Wang spiritually and physically, but they also extorted 3,400 yuan from her. At home, she was nursing her baby and taking care of a grandmother who was over 90 years old. Her father-in-law suffered from heart disease.

In November 2006 the Yishui Cotton Weaving Plant Manager, Sun Bingwei, forced Wang Yuzhi to surrender her husband's registered permanent address. The deposit was not reimbursed and no unemployment pension was given to her.

The Persecution of Ms. Liu Naiqin

Liu Naiqin's second brother's whole family practised Falun Gong. They were all arrested after the persecution began on July 20th, 1999. One day she delivered some things to her second brother who was being held in the brainwashing centre. Li Hongwei, the head of the centre, arrested Ms. Liu because she is also a practitioner. They made her go into a separate room and asked her whether she still wanted to practise Falun Gong. When she replied that she would, Li Hongwei swore at her and slapped her face. Driver Liu burned Liu Naiqin's arm with a cigarette butt. These brutal people prohibited practitioners from speaking out after such treatment. After several days in the brainwashing centre, Ms. Liu Naiqin returned home.

Only a few days later, Liu Naiqin was deceived by Women's Director Tian Baoye to go to the production brigade, where she was arrested and taken to the Longjiaquan Comprehensive Administrative Office. At that time Wei Shuwen was the Politics and Law Committee Secretary and Zhou Deyuan was the manager. There was another official named Wang Zengsheng. They told Ms. Liu to hand over 2,000 yuan. Because she refused, she was imprisoned for more than a month. Out of money, Liu Naiqin lived at her second brother's home after her release. After a while, she was deceived again and told to hand over money. Liu Naiqin gave the authorities 600 yuan. Wang Zengsheng refused to give her a receipt, saying that 600 yuan was insufficient to cover his 2,000-yuan demand.

Later, Wei Shuwen, Zhou Deyuan, and Wang Zengsheng frequently led others to harass Liu Naiqin's family. One day when they went to her home, she was at work at the time but her husband,Yang Ximao, and her child were at home. They kicked and brutally beat Yang Ximao in front of their child. Finally, they took Yang Ximao away in handcuffs. Wang Zengsheng had written something on a piece of paper, and without letting Mr. Yang read it, he forced him to put his fingerprints on the paper and fined him 2,000 yuan. After the family member had handed in 2,000 yuan, Yang Ximao was released. It was heard afterwards that the man behind the scenes was named Wang Xiufeng. He was the former Chaishan Township Political and Judiciary Committee Secretary and was later transferred to Longjiaquan Township and appointed as the Politics and Law Committee Secretary. The methods he used to persecute Dafa practitioners were extremely vicious.

The Persecution of Mr. Zhang Jun

Practitioner Mr. Zhang Jun, 61 years old, started practising Dafa around the end of October 1997. He was from Zhangjialou Village in Yishui County. After the persecution began, Wu Hongjiang, the manager of the Yangzhuang Police Station, frequently harassed Mr. Zhang's family and ordered him to write a guarantee statement to give up his belief in Falun Gong. Around 4:00 p.m. on February 23rd, a person whose last name is Li from the Yishui County National Security Brigade, together with three to four men, two women, and Wu Hongjiang, searched Zhang Jun's home, arrested him, and took him to the local police station. After being imprisoned for one month at the Yishui Detention Centre, Mr. Zhang was sentenced to two years of forced labour. He is still detained at Zibo City's Wang Village Forced Labour Camp.

Zhang Qingjian, Party Secretary of Zhanglouzi Village in Yishui County: 86-539-2855078 (Home)

Zhang Qinggong, administrator: 86-539-2855069, 2857575 (Home)

The Persecution of Mr. Chen Minjie

Chen Minjie is a practitioner from Niyuzi Village in Yishui Township, in Yishui County, Shandong Province. On January 20th, 2001 he went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. The police arrested him at the Tianjin train station and sent him to the local detention centre. They took all his clothes off and made him stand in the snow when it was 20 degree below zero for half an hour. Then they had him put a shirt on and stand facing the wall. The police brought a big German shepherd dog to bite him on his back and made it bleed. Then they took off his only shirt and drenched him 20 times with ice-cold water.

Later, Yishui County Local Police Station head Huang and Songfeng District Administrative Secretary Wang Yushan took Mr. Chen back to Yishui Feng Village. A few days later, he was sent to the county detention centre. The criminal inmates at the detention centre were manipulated and encouraged to persecute Chen Minjie. They pushed him to the floor, kicked, and beat him. They took off his jacket and threw him into the tub. They used ice cold water to "bathe" him. They clamped toothbrushes between his fingers and toes, and with one hand they grasped his fingers while with another hand they twisted the toothbrush until his fingers bled. They mixed soap, laundry powder, toothpaste, and so on, eight things together with water and forced him to drink it. Every day he was given very little food to eat. He was not allowed to sleep at night. Mr. Chen was tortured like this at the detention centre for one month.

In July 2002, because someone reported that Chen Minjie had distributed truth-clarifying materials in public, he was arrested and taken to the Songfeng District Administrative Office. Led by Wang Yushan and Wu Yubo, perpetrators kicked and beat him. When their hands got tired, they used a broom. When the broom broke, they used a rubber stick. Mr. Chen was beaten black and blue all over. Then he was sent to Wang Village brainwashing centre for further persecution.

Those in charge not only persecuted Chen Minjie, but they also extorted money from his wife. During recent years, a total of 15,000 yuan has been extorted from Chen Minjie. Now his family faces serious financial difficulty.

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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/4/3/152057.html