City Pays Fifty Vicious Thugs 300,000 Yuan to Torture Six Practitioners for a Month

City Pays Fifty Vicious Thugs 300,000 Yuan to Torture Six Practitioners for a Month
Between September 6th and October 4th, 2005, six practitioners were detained at the Petrochemical Sanatorium, which is located at Wenquan in Xianning City, Hubei Province. The practitioners included one female practitioner from Chibi City and another from the Xianan District, two male practitioners, Shao Qingming and Xu Changhong, from the Wenquan Development Area, and two female practitioners, Fang Liurong and Zheng Xinghua, also from the Wenquan Development Area.

The funds provided for carrying out this persecution was over 300,000 yuan¹ during one month's time. This money came directly from the city financial department.

Over fifty people were involved in this persecution. They were from the following work units: a deputy director from the municipal law bureau--he was the head of the brainwashing centre; the court; the Procuratorate; the forced labour camp; the director of the National Security Division of the Public Security Bureau; Wu Liansheng with the city Water Conservancy Bureau; the Xianning Institute; the City Central Hospital; Ruan Minggui, director of the city 610 Office²; Xu Meng Liang, chief of the office; Section Chief Yao Xiong; the City Women's Federation; the city Public Security Bureau; Wenquan Public Security Division; various security offices in Wenquan City; a man and a woman from the provincial 610 Office; and one local practitioner in Wenquan who had just been released from a provincial brainwashing centre. Two or three cars from the provincial 610 Office transported the above mentioned people to the Sanatorium.

Tactics used to persecute the six practitioners:

1. Assistants were sent to be trained at the provincial brainwashing centre. After completing one session, they then used the same methods in Xianning. In other words, they were brainwashed first. Then they brainwashed practitioners.

2. The sanatorium was paid for the absolute right of usage so that they could isolate practitioners however they chose.

3. Every practitioner was isolated. Three people were arranged in each room - one practitioner and two assistants who were in charge of meals, use of the toilet, and sleeping arrangements. It was the same as organized kidnapping. Practitioners were not allowed to leave if they did not give up their beliefs.

4. The "teaching materials" were pure propaganda. Practitioners were forced to stay up late.

5. The "homework" was copying materials denouncing Falun Gong.

6. They played a video of stories of Buddhism. They attempted to mislead practitioners with Buddhism, trying to subtly make them give up practising Falun Gong.

7. Practitioners were forced to sing Chinese Communist Party songs and dance with the assistants. They attempted to poison practitioners with the Party's culture.

8. Practitioners were forced to sign a guarantee statement³ and repentance statement, and write materials attacking Falun Gong.

9. The persecutors forced practitioners to read a series of books that attacked Falun Gong by "Wang Zhigang," and materials from a website organized by "Wang Zhigang."

10. A conference was held and the release of the practitioners was announced. In actuality, some practitioners were sentenced to jail, some were sent to forced labour camps, some were forced to pay a fine, some were still to be detained, and others were taken home by family members and put under house arrest.

11. The assistants were paid bonuses and benefits and invited to celebrations and sightseeing trips until all the money (over 300,000 yuan from the city's financial department) was used up.

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. "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 Gong practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/9/4/207703.html