Crimes Committed at the Xian Worker's Sanatorium

The Xian Worker's Sanatorium (Xian Worker's Hospital) has persecuted Falun Gong practitioners since 2001. Brainwashing sessions for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners were established by the Xian Public Security Bureau and Safety Bureau under the guidance of the Xian 610 Office¹. Xian 610 Office Brainwashing Centre was located in the Shanxi Province Worker's Sanatorium before 2001.

The Xian Public Security Bureau has delivered orders to its subordinates that Falun Gong practitioners arrested by public security sub-bureaus and police stations are no longer to be questioned at their local area, but must be sent to brainwashing centres. The centres have been turned into places where confessions are forced using torture.

The Xian Worker's Sanatorium is divided into two gardens. One is called the "Osmanthus Garden" and the other one is the "Palm Garden." The "Osmanthus Garden" is a brainwashing centre established and monitored by the Xian 610 Office. Here, Chinese Communist Party members force practitioners to watch videos and read books that defame Falun Gong, write statements of "transformation²," and conduct continual mental torture. They lock practitioners in small solitary cells, deprive them of sleep, subject them to exposure to high intensity light, threaten them, bombard them with propaganda, physically assault them, and put debilitating psychotropic drugs into their food. One male practitioner in his 20's became unable to walk after being persecuted. The authorities force practitioners to pay for the expenses incurred during persecution. Some practitioners' relatives were extorted of huge amounts of money in exchange for the practitioners' release.

The "Palm Garden" was a place temporarily set up to detain Falun Gong practitioners during the Para-Olympic Games. Several dozen practitioners were detained there during that period. They released several practitioners after the games, but the majority were transferred to the "Osmanthus Garden." They have not been released to this day.

The "Palm Garden" has now become a place where the Public Security Bureau secretly detains and questions people. The guards there are plain clothes public security personnel, and the windows and curtains are kept shut. The practitioners there are cut off from the outside world, suffering various tortures such as wearing handcuffs and shackles or having their hands cuffed behind their backs for long periods of time. Practitioners are sent to forced labour or torture at the whim of the public security officers there.

In September 2005, the National Security Team leader for Yanta Public Security Sub-Bureau of Xian City, Yan Meiming, and Dou Xiaozhou ransacked Ms. Li Changying's home and arrested her. They then sent her to the Changan District Worker's Sanatorium. The guards in the brainwashing centre took turns threatening her and attempting to trick her. Later they locked her up in Yanta Detention Centre for three months, and then sent her for two years of forced labour re-education in the Xian Women's Forced Labour Camp. Not long after that, Li Changying suffered a recurrence of her old illnesses. Her abdomen and legs suffered from severe swelling, so the labour camp released her.

After she was released, Li Changying became a key person for the Hongyan Community Office to monitor. Chen Shuping, the head of the community, repeatedly monitored and harassed her and her family. After eight years of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Li Changying passed away on August 31st, 2007.

In February 2004, Ms. Li Zhirong was arrested by the Lianhu Public Security Sub-Bureau and sent to a brainwashing centre for over five months. In 2007, police from the State Security Team of Lianhu Sub-Bureau ransacked Li Zhirong's home. They confiscated a lot of Falun Gong materials and kept her at the brainwashing centre for over twenty days.

Not long before the Olympic Games, seven or eight policemen from the National Security Team rushed into Li Zhirong's home and ransacked the place. They took 66-year-old Li Zhirong to the brainwashing centre. That was the ninth time she had been arrested by the police.

Ms. Liu Jing, 75, was a physician-in-charge in Xidian Hospital before her retirement. She lives at Renjiazhuang Residential District in Xian City. On March 17th, 2008 in the afternoon, CCP members arrested her and took her to the Xian Brainwashing Centre in Changan District.

Ms. Jin Rong, 35, was a staff member of the Lishan Electronics Company in Lintong. In August 2002, she was arrested and sent to the brainwashing centre at Xian Worker's Sanatorium in Changan County. She endured two stays at the brainwashing centre because she refused to renounce her belief. In 2003 before the Chinese New Year, because her workplace refused to bail her out and she refused to be "transformed," people from the public security bureau went to her dormitory and found over 30 DVDs exposing the persecution and printed materials. For that, they sent her for one-year of forced labour.

In mid-October 2003, over twenty practitioners were detained at the brainwashing centre in Xian Worker's Sanatorium at Changan District. The brainwashing sessions lasted three months, but Chen Jie and five other practitioners were not released because they refused to cooperate.

Xian Falun Gong practitioner Liu Aiying was reported when distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution in the Armed Police Hospital. The police arrested her and sent her to the local 610 Office. Later, she was taken away by Xinchen Sub-Bureau police officer Zhou Xiaoyu. On April 10th, she was sent to Xian Brainwashing Centre in Xian Worker's Sanatorium.

Ms. Zhou Yating, in her forties, is from Hu County, Xian City. The local 610 Office has continually harassed her because she refuses to give up Falun Gong. She was repeatedly arrested and sent for forced labour. Her husband divorced her because he couldn't bear the pressure. She had no place to go, so she had to become homeless. Because she had no income, sometimes she had no food to eat for several days. She was again arrested and taken to Xian Brainwashing Centre in Changan County during the Para-Olympic Games. On September 7th, she was sent from "Osmanthus Garden" to "Palm Garden" in handcuffs, walking with great difficulty due to all that she has suffered. Her current whereabouts are unknown.

Xian Changan County Brainwashing Centre, Osmanthus Garden Office: 86-29-85630990
Director of Xian Worker's Hospital (Xian Worker's Sanatorium): Niu Dezhi
Party secretary of Xian Worker's Hospital: Zhang Deheng
Head of Xian Brainwashing Centre: Li Liang: 86-29-85631564, 86-13379269275 (Mobile)
Police from State Security Team: Yan Meiming, Gao Xinya, Jia Shanhong, Ding Moumou, etc: 86-29-85631451, 86-29-85631410, 86-13325452409 (Mobile), 86-13891816598 (Mobile) 86-13227700509 (Mobile), 86-13474350703 (Mobile), 86-15829315694(Mobile), 86-13488278941 (Mobile) 86-13389288160 (Mobile), 86-13363926036 (Mobile), 86-13772484107 (Mobile)
Head of Xian Municipal Party Committee 610 Office, Xu Wanchun: 86-29-87264011 (Office), 86-29-84396073 (Home), 86-13700291931(Mobile)
Director and Party Secretary of Xian Public Security Bureau, Ding Jian: 29-87251333 (Office)

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.

2. "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")

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