Incidents of Persecution in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 2009

The following persecution events occurred in Yinchuan City, Shizuishan City, Wuzhong City, Qingtongxia City, Zhongwei City, and Guyuan City, all in the Ningxia Region, in 2009.

1. On February 24th, the Xixia District Court in Yinchuan City tried practitioner Mr. Luan Ning. Under the command of the Ningxia 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong], officers from the security divisions of the Xingqing District, the Jinfeng District, and the Xixia District, and staff from the Xianghe Neighbourhood Committee, broke into practitioners' homes and arrested six of them.

2. On February 15th, three people from Beijing shared their torture techniques with guards in the Yinchuan City Prison. They provided design drawings, and the prison made ten tiger bench torture chairs. Practitioners imprisoned in Pingluo Prison, Wuzhong Prison, and Guyuan Prison were then transferred to Yinchuan Prison and subjected to brainwashing and torture. Guards involved in the torture included Wei Jun, Tian Yongyu, Li Hongbing, Zhang Lin, and Zhang Quanhong.

3. On March 2nd, less than two months after she was released from prison, Ms. Su Qingling from Yongning County was arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre.

4. On March 7th, officers arrested Ms. Wang Yuzhou, Ms. Wang Yuxiang, and Ms. Pan Yiyuan, and searched their homes. Ms. Wang Yuzhou was later taken to a brainwashing centre.

5. On March 7th, officers arrested three practitioners from Wuzhong City and Qingtongxia City. One practitioner's home was searched and his whereabouts are unknown.

6. On March 14th, officers arrested Ms. Zhang Feng'e and Ms. Jing Yuling in Zhongwei City. On the second day, they arrested two more practitioners while they were searching the homes of Ms. Zhang and Ms. Jing. They later arrested the husband of an imprisoned practitioner.

7. On March 25th, officers from the Dongjie Police Station in the Jinfeng District of Yinchuan City arrested Ms. Zhang Guifang, who lived in the Jinfeng District.

8. In late March, Mr. Ding Fadong from Yinchuan City had to leave home to avoid further harassment. Even after he left, the Neighbourhood Committee kept harassing his family.

9. On April 1st agents from the Ningxia City 610 Office took Ms. Yang Jie from Zhongwei City to a brainwashing centre the same day that she was released after four years in prison.

10. In early April 2009, agents from the Ningxia Region 610 Office took Ms. Cao Guilan to a brainwashing centre. Ms. Cao had been imprisoned for several years.

11. On April 17, 2009, officers from the Xingqing District Police Department in Yinchuan City arrested Mr. Liu Sizu at his home.

11. In Ma, the Xixia District Court in Yinchuan City secretly sentenced Mr. Luan Ning to four years in prison. Mr. Luan was arrested on September 19th, 2008. His parents appealed for the release of their innocent son at many government offices. Government agents threatened them, verbally abused them, and made things difficult for them. The agents prevented them from visiting their son. Ms. Luo Canhua, the mother of Mr. Luan, died fighting injustice on February 27th, 2010.

Mr. Luan was a college graduate. Before the persecution began, he was a deputy division chief of the Ningxia Region Human Resources Office. After he appealed for the right to practise Falun Gong in Beijing in 2000, he was sentenced to three years in prison and fired from his position.

13. On June 4th, officers from the Pingluo County Domestic Division arrested Mr. Guo on a street in Pingluo County. Mr. Guo, who is in his 60s, is a practitioner from the Shizuishan City, Ningxia Region.
14. On June 5th, the daughter of Mr. Guo was arrested.

15. Around June 10th, police arrested Ms. Wang Yulan and searched her home. Ms. Wang, in her 60s, is a practitioner in Shizuishan City.

16. Around June 10th, officers from the Huinong District Domestic Security Division in Shizuishan City arrested Ms. Wang Li, who is in her 40s. They searched her home.

17. Around June 20th, police searched the home of Mr. Wang Weicheng twice in Shizuishan City.

18. In the first six months of 2009, under direction from the 610 Office, guards in the Pingluo Prison abused imprisoned practitioners:
Mr. Jiang Tao, Mr. Qiao Jianhui, and Mr. Zhao Lin were held in a disciplinary prison section.
Mr. Wang Jiaming was held in a sick and disabled prison section, and not allowed to contact anyone.
Mr. Wand Yuzhu and Mr. Zhao Yuhu were forced to make fake eyelashes and peel beans.

Mr. Xie Yiqiang and Mr. Zhao Lin refused to recite the prison regulations and persisted in doing the Falun Gong exercises. They were confined in solitary compartments and not allow to sleep before 1:00 a.m. for their peaceful disobedience. They were slapped in the face by inmates and forced to stand still for long periods of time because they remained silent during roll call.

Mr. Wang Yuzhu was held in an enhanced electronic monitoring cell because he had an electronic Falun Gong book. He refused to reveal the source to guards, so they had police arrest his brother, Mr. Wang Yuzhou; his sister, Ms. Wang Yuxiang; and his ex-wife, Ms. Pan Yiyuan, and had their homes searched. The prison administration later extended his prison term.

19. On July 16th, agents from the Ningxia Region 610 Office and officers from Guyuan City arrested Ms. Zhang Lifang, a practitioner from Guyuan City, at her daughter's home in the Xingqing District, Yinchuan City. She was then held at the Ningxia Women's Forced Labour Camp for a two-year term even though no legal procedures had been followed. Ms. Zhang, 49, had been arrested three times, and was subjected to 18 months of forced labour in March 2005.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/2/19/218457.html