Mr. Li Wenmou, 72 and a Falun Gong practitioner, is from Tonghua City. In late July or early August 1999, six officers from the Railroad Police Division, led by division head Hong Daoye, arrived at Li Wenmou's residence and ransacked it. They took Falun Gong books, and other personal belongings.
A few days later, more than 20 people harassed Mr. Li and attempted to coerce him to give up his practice of Falun Gong. The people who harassed him included Mechanical Section Party Secretary Xu Jingfu and Railroad Bureau Party Secretary Zhang Rong. Mr. Li refused to cooperate. While Mr. Li was taking a walk, the police arrested him and took him to the Dongchang Districit Police Department. Deputy Chief Zou Mingji from the Laozhan Police Station sent him to Changliu Detention Centre in Tonghua City, where he was detained for 15 days. Prior to October 1st, 1999, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel were determined to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal. They compelled Li Wenmou to report to Changliu Detention Centre daily for six days, to be detained for two hours each day.
In July 2000, Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and was arrested by Tiananmen Square police. He was released at 8:00 p.m. Once at home, local police arrested him and had him sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. On September 2-3rd, 2000, he was taken to Tonghua Forced Labour Camp, where all the practitioners, regardless of age, were physically assaulted and shocked with electric batons. Guard Sun Jianfu urged criminal inmate Zhan Wandong to slap the practitioners with the bottoms of his shoes. He also told the criminals that, if they beat practitioners, they would get credits and reductions in their sentences. Li Wenmou was made to do hard labour every day and forced to watch slanderous videos and undergo compulsory brainwashing.
At 10:00 p.m. on October 28th, 2002, the residential street committee supervisor, Dong, female, led Deputy Police Chief Cao and policeman Zhang to once again ransack Mr. Li's house. (Dong has since died.) Prior to the 2003 Chinese New Year, Mr. Li was taken to Caoyangou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun for one and a half years.
While at this camp, practitioners who refused to write the "four statements1" promising to stop practising, were beaten and shocked with electric batons. They were also made to sit on small stools for long periods of time and made to work from early morning to late at night, often until 11:00 p.m. Li Wenmou was incarcerated in the No. 4 Division. One practitioner from Baishan City refused to write the guarantee statement2. As a result, five guards beat him. They also used two electric batons to shock him simultaneously and used a belt to whip him, continuing for more than an hour. The practitioner was covered with injuries upon returning to his cell. Guard Zou from the No. 4 Division threatened that, unless he "reformed"3, "We will send you to the No. 2 Division and torture you even more severely."
Because Mr. Li Wenmou refused to give up his belief, his term was unlawfully extended by two and a half months.
Note
1. "Four Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write the "four statements" as proof that they have given up their belief. Created by the 610 Office, they consist of "a letter of repentance," "a guarantee" to never again practise Falun Gong, a "Dissociation Statement" to declare a dissociation with Falun Gong and promise not go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and a list of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who are practitioners.
2. "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.
3. "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")
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/5/11/178190.html
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