Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners from the Dashiba Region of Jiangbei District, Chongqing City

A total of six Falun Dafa practitioners from the Dashiba Region in Jiangbei District of Chongqing City were arrested on January 15th, February 9th, and May 16th, 2007. Practitioners Mr. Zhu Zhilin and Mr. Zhao have been released, but practitioner Ms. Wu Huazhen is still being held. The following are accounts of the persecution of practitioners at the hands of the Jiangbei District Police Department, Dashiba Police Station and Chang'an Factory Police Department.

1. Mr. Yuan Qingsheng, 50 years old, 162nd Shop, 1st Plant, Chang'an Factory

Mr. Yuan Qingsheng went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 1999. He was arrested and taken to Chongqing, where he was imprisoned at the Jiangbei District Detention Centre for one month and then the Brainwashing Centre for one month. He was again taken to Huayun Mountain Brainwashing Centre in July 2000. The Chang'an Factory Police Department gathered information about him, then sentenced him to two years of forced labour.

He was locked in solitary confinement and a water dungeon with dead snakes and poisonous bugs at Xishanping Forced Labour Camp. He was beaten frequently and a poisonous sting caused a growth at the back his ear. It grew back after it was cut off. The forced labour camp released him on medical leave in 2002, because the officials were afraid he would die at the camp. He was monitored frequently at home by the residential committee. Mr. Yuan lost his income and his wife was laid off (later changed to retirement) due to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) implication policy. Mr. Yuan was reported to the police for giving his coworkers CDs exposing the persecution in 2003. He left home and went into hiding to avoid persecution. He was arrested in 2004 by the Fuling District Police Department in Chongqing City and sentenced to seven years in prison.

At Dianjiang Prison, he was ordered to give up his belief, but he refused. He showed visiting relatives the scars on his hands and told them he was constantly hungry. His relatives brought him biscuits, but he was only able to eat a few before the wardens took them. The wardens said he would only get a couple bites of food at meals, unless he "transformed¹." Now Mr. Yuan is suffering severe torture and his life is in jeopardy. Mr. Yuan was a gambler in the past. He stopped gambling and became very responsible to his work and family after learning Falun Gong. A good person is being tortured like this.

2. Mr. Xiang Shihua, over 50, 162nd Shop, 1st Plant, Chang'an Factory

Mr. Xiang Shihua was rude to others, drank a lot and had lung disease. He did not give up his bad habits even when his wife divorced him. After practising Falun Gong, he stopped drinking and his lung disease was gone, too. He became a completely different and good person. In 1999, Mr. Xiang was placed in Huayun Mountain Brainwashing Centre for a month by the Chang'an Factory police. In 2001, he spent half a year in Banan District Detention Centre for distributing materials exposing the persecution. The torture there left his legs disabled. He was then sentenced to four years in prison, but Yongchuan Prison refused to accept him, because he is disabled and can't work. He was sent home on medical leave. Mr. Xiang continued to practice Falun Gong and his legs healed. On the night of February 9th, 2007, policeman Li Xianyong and others from Jiangbei District Police Department, Jiangbei District 610 Office² and Dashiba Police Station broke into Mr. Xiang's home and ransacked the place. He was arrested and sentenced to one year of forced labour. He had difficulty walking and his legs were very swollen when his family visited him at Xishanping Forced Labour Camp.

3. Ms. Luo Peiping, 50 years old, 1st Plant, Chang'an Factory

In 2000, Ms. Luo Peiping was imprisoned at the Jiangbei District Detention Centre for one month and the Brainwashing Centre for one month for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. In 2001, she was sentenced to ten years in prison for distributing leaflets. She is currently held in the Yongchuan Women's Prison in Chongqing City, where she is forced to do labour intensive work for more than fifteen hours each day. She has been tortured mentally, abused physically and monitored around the clock. Now her husband is being tortured, too.

4. Mr. Xiang Dong, 24 years old, is Barely Surviving

As a child, Mr. Xiang Dong witnessed the benefits that his parents obtained from Dafa. He understood that Falun Dafa is good when he was very young. In 2000, at the age of 17, with a pure heart, he told others that "Falun Dafa is a righteous practice." However, the CCP held this innocent boy in the Banan Detention Centre for half a year. The torture left his legs disabled and he could not care for himself. Still, he was sentenced to four years in prison. Yongchuan Prison refused to accept him so he went home on medical leave. The police arrested his father in 2007 and are searching for him. He left home and went into hiding.

5. Ms. Wu Huazhen, 55, Retired from the 1st Plant, Chang'an Factory

Ms. Wu Huazhen suffered from many illnesses all her life but became very healthy after practising Falun Gong. She went to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing in 1999, but was arrested on the train and sent to a brainwashing centre for a month. She went to Beijing again in June 2000 and was severely beaten by the Chongqing City Liaison Office police. She was imprisoned at the Jiangbei District Detention Centre for over 30 days and sentenced to one year of forced labour by the Chang'an Factory Police Department. She was frequently harassed at home after her release. On the evening of January 5th, 2007, officer Li Xianyong from the Jiangbei District Police Department, officer Deng Hongying from the Dashiba Police Station, director Han Leling and Party secretary Zhou Xiaoqiu of the Residential Committee, and three or four other people broke into her home. They ransacked it and took her computer and Dafa books. Ms. Wu, her husband and another visiting practitioner were taken to the Dashiba Police Station. Her husband was released after interrogation. Ms. Wu is currently imprisoned at the Jiangbei District Detention Centre. Her mother died in pain and desperation. However, the police did not allow Ms. Wu to attend her mother's funeral. Ms. Wu has developed symptoms of high blood pressure and asthma at the detention centre.

6. Ms. Yu Qunfang, 57, Retiree from the 1st Plant, Chang'an Factory

Ms. Yu Qunfang suffered from many diseases and was paralysed and blind. After practising Falun Gong, her diseases disappeared and she was also able to see. Ms. Yu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 1999 and was arrested. She was imprisoned at the Jiangbei District Detention Centre for 37 days by policeman Zhang Zhenhua from the Dashiba Police Station. On June 30th, 2000, she was arrested by officers from the Chang'an Factory Police Department and imprisoned at the Jiangbei District Detention Centre for 15 days. Then she was held in the Huayun Mountain Brainwashing Centre for 20 days by policeman Yan Xiangming. Police officers Yan Xiangming and Rao Jiang put together a list of materials about her and illegally sentenced her to one year of forced labour. At the Maojia Mountain Women's Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City, she was hung up in the air for 20 days by female guards Ai and Xu. The guards beat her fiercely, forced her to stand and squat and prohibited her from taking showers. They also gagged her mouth with dirty socks and tape. Ms. Yu's husband was laid off due to the CCP's implication policy.

In 2002, Ms. Yu was sentenced to two years of forced labour by the Yubei District Police Department in Chongqing City. She was locked in solitary confinement, allowed to use the toilet only a few times a day, physically abused, and forced to carry out intensive labour work for over fifteen hours each day. The torture caused her fingers to become disfigured. She was forced to go to brainwashing classes and was psychologically tortured. Female guards Dai Wenjuan, He, and Wang Jin were directly involved in torturing her. After she returned home, she was monitored by Cui Zerong for a long time. On March 18th, 2007, female guard Gui Li, whose cell number is 86-15909301062, led others to break into her home to arrest her again. Ms. Yu left home and went into hiding.

Note

1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/6/26/157616.html