Large Numbers of Falun Gong Practitioners in Jiaozhou City Have Been Sentenced and Sent to Forced Labour Camps or Mental Hospitals

Over the course of the eleven-year persecution, many Falun Gong practitioners in Jiaozhou City have been sentenced and sent to forced labour camps or mental hospitals. Below are the cases we have collected.

Practitioners sentenced:

Jiaozhou Court sentenced several practitioners--including Mr. Zhou Zhaohua, Mr. Le Songjia, Ms. Sun Xiuhua and Ms. Wang Guixiang--to four or five years of imprisonment in April 2002.
People responsible:
Li Huinuan, female, case-acceptance division head
Liu Xiliang, deputy head
Wang Ronghai, current 610 Office deputy head
Wang Qiang, current Jiaozhou City Political and Law Committee head

Jiaozhou City Court sentenced practitioner Mr. Zhao Zunming from Zhaojiadian Village, Jiaoxi, to four years in July 2002
People responsible:

Adjudication division presiding judge Zhao Yutao

Deputy presiding judges Fu Zengguang, Zhao Lianqing, and Liu Xiliang
Deputy court head Wang Ronghai

Ms. Yu Airong, sentenced to four years in February 2003
People responsible: Zhao Yutao, Fu Zengguang, and Zhao Lianqing

Ms. Li Xia, from Ducun Town/Jiaozhou City, sentenced to fours years, and Ms. Ji Xiuling from the same place was sentenced to three and a half years in February 2003.
People responsible: Zhao Yutao, Fu Zengguang, and Zhao Lianqing

Mr. Liu Zhaohong, sentenced to five years in August 2003
People responsible: Zhao Yutao, Fu Zengguang, and Zhao Lianqing

Mr. Sun Jieqi, sentenced to three years in October 2003
People responsible: Zhao Yutao, Fu Zengguang, and Zhao Lianqing

Mr. Wang Mingjiang, sentenced to five years in June 2004
Person responsible: Zhao Lianqing

Mr. Sun Jianwu, sentenced to three years in June 2004
Person responsible: Lu Bin

Ms. Gao Fen, sentenced to four years in April 2005
People responsible: Zhao Yutao, Zhao Lianqing, and Fu Zengguang

Mr. Wang Yubao, sentenced to three-and-a-half years in 2005
People responsible: Zhao Yutao, Zhao Lianqing, and Fu Zengguang

Mr. Wang Xushan, sentenced to three-and-a-half years in 2005
Person responsible: Wang Hongwei

Mr. Li Xue, sentenced to seven years in March 2007
People responsible: Zhao Yutao, and Yu Ronghai, 610 Office head

The following eight practitioners were sentenced to ten, five, four, or three years in September 2008: He Kunlin, Hei Jianfeng, Wei Xiuju, Zhai Yongqiang, Li Shiying, Zhou Shenghua, Song Guie, Liu Jinmei
People responsible: Zhao Lianqing, Fu Zengguang, Wang Hongwei, and Wang Zhi

Ms. Feng Manli and Jian Junji from Jiaodong Town, sentenced to four years in 2009
Person responsible: Zhao Lianqing

Practitioners sent to mental hospitals:

Ms. Zhang Ling, in her 20s, went to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution in October 2000. The police brought her back and detained her for 14 days. They extorted 4,000 yuan¹ from her family to have her released on bail, but then covertly held her at Jiaozhou Detention Centre. Fifteen days later, Jiaozhou Construction Bureau officials sent Ms. Zhang to the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital without notifying her family.
Person directly responsible: Song Tongfeng, former Construction Bureau Head
Person that carried out the persecution: Zhao Baoqin

Fuan Police Station officials arrested Mr. Xu Yanzhong in 2004 and incarcerated him in the Nantan Detention Centre. Two days later he was forcibly sent to a mental hospital and injected with nerve-damaging drugs four times a month while regular mental patients were injected once a month.

Person directly responsible: Liu Zuojin, former Jiaozhou City Political and Law Committee head, retired. He had come to the mental hospital in May 2000 to instruct hospital head Liu Bingwen to persecute the practitioners.
Xu Fatian, former deputy head from the same committee, since retired
Gao Siming, Zhaojiaxiao Village Party head
Zhao Lanjie, Zhaojiaxiao Village head

Mr. Song Xinjian, 69 years old, was editorial director for the Jiaozhou City Radio and Television Bureau. He was held at the Zhangjiatun Brainwashing Centre for one month in retaliation for going to Beijing to appeal on October 4th, 2000. His captors locked him in the Zhangjiatun Brainwashing Centre for one month. This was followed by deprivation of freedom at an unknown location before he was taken to the Zhangjiatun Brainwashing Centre again. He was taken to a mental hospital for around November 30th, 2000.

Persons responsible:
Liu Zuojin
Liu Xuedong, Jiaozhou City 610 Office head
Chen Shaodong, former Jiaozhou City Radio and Television Bureau head
Lin Zuoqin, former deputy Party head of the Radio and Television Bureau, since retired

Ms. Gao Fen is a 37-year-old practitioner in Jiulong Town, Jiaozhou City. When she was visiting a friend in June 2000, police officers arrived at 10:00 p.m. and pounded on the door. A few of the officers came in over the wall, forcibly entered the home, and searched the place thoroughly. They bundled Ms. Gao into the police van, took her to the Fuan Police Station, and detained her in a metal cage. The police deprived her of food, water, and access to a toilet. Jiulong Town officials sent Ms. Gao to the Jiaozhou City Mental Hospital after seven days of detention.

Jiaozhou City Mental Hospital is a three-story building. Falun Gong practitioners were kept on all three stories. Doctors forced Ms. Gao to take medicine immediately upon her arrival. As a result, she felt dizzy constantly and had purple-black clots during her menstrual period. When she refused to take the medicine, the doctor ordered several strong patients to hold her down and attempted to force-feed her the medicine. When Ms. Gao told them not to, the doctors said they had no choice since doing this was a "political responsibility."

People responsible:
Liu Zuojin
Wang Huansheng, former Jiulong Town Police Station head who died from cancer

Mr. Xiao Zhiduan, 44 years old, was a former Jiaozhou City Court presiding judge. He began to practice Falun Gong in 1997. On March 2nd, 2000, he was arrested by Fuan Police Station officials in Jiaozhou City on March 2nd, 2000, for publicly practising the Falun Gong exercises. Jiaozhou 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) agents extorted 3,000 yuan from him and sent him back to his workplace for monitoring.

Mr. Xiao went to Beijing to appeal for justice, but he was arrested by Fuan police on November 3rd, 2000. In an escape attempt, he jumped from the police headquarters' second story and sustained a lumbar vertebral fracture. Police sent him back to his workplace. Court head Zhu Chenli and former court head Wang Fulin (since retired) detained Mr. Xiao for more than ten days and covertly sent him to the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital and informed the family after the fact.

Doctors in the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital forced Mr. Xiao to take large amount of nerve-damaging drugs. In addition, No. 2 Mental Division head Jiang Dengfa beat him, tied him up on a table, and shocked him with high voltage electric batons. The captors also inserted needles in the practitioner's hukou acupuncture point. When the electric current goes through, the victim immediately experiences numbness in both arms. The severe pain goes to the heart, until the victim loses consciousness. The electric batons are then turned off, and the victim regains consciousness. The process is repeated many times. When the electricity goes through, the victims cannot help crying out in pain.

Mr. Xiao went on a protest hunger strike. The guards then force-fed him. He was tied to a bed, with all four limbs immobilised. A head nurse surnamed Wang took a long tube and inserted it through his nose, deep into his stomach. To increase the pain, the head nurse intentionally pulled and pushed the tube back and forth. The pain made his stomach react strongly. Mr. Xiao was sent to the Zhangjiatun Brainwashing Centre close to the 2001 Chinese New Year. 610 Office head Liu Xuedong ordered guards to handcuff him close to the bed and beat him brutally.

People responsible:
Liu Zuojin, Liu Xuedong
Zhu Chenli, Jiaozhou Court head
Wang Fulin, former Jiaozhou Court deputy head, retired
Jiang Dengfa, former mental division head of the hospital
A nurse surnamed Wang

Ms. Zhang Xuanping, 41, worked at the Jiaozhou Boiler Factory. She began Falun Gong practice in 1996. Under instructions from the 610 Office, officials at Ms. Zhang's workplace ordered her to write a statement giving up the practice, but she refused. Following the 610 Office's orders, her workplace officials sent Ms. Zhang to the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital, where she was ruthlessly abused.

The practitioner couple Zhou Caixia and Liu Fuxi were arrested and sent to the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital. Zhou Caixia went on a hunger strike to protest for 12 days and took the opportunity to successfully escape from the mental hospital. The couple is currently in exile to avoid further persecution.

People responsible: Liu Zuojin
Liu Yanxi, former Political and Law Bureau official, later transferred to the Family Planning Bureau Wang Zhouxiao, Zhongyun administrative office head
Liu Bingwen, mental hospital head

Ms. Qiu Yuane was arrested at a railway station on her way to Beijing and sent to the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital. To compel Ms. Qiu to take medicine, Liu Yanxi ordered a nurse to force open her mouth with chopsticks and a screwdriver. After this happened many times, Ms. Qiu's mouth was bruised and bleeding. Some of her teeth were broken. The captors would not let her family pick her up until she had been tortured to the point of dementia. Ms. Qiu still has a mental disorder resulting from the abuse she experienced.

People responsible: Liu Zuojin, Liu Yanxi, and Liu Bingwen.

Ms. Tan Jianhua, 45 years old, went to Beijing to appeal on September 11th, 1999. After being arrested and taken back to her town, 610 Office agents placed her in the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital. Eight male nurses worked together to inject her with toxic substances with a big syringe that was normally used for glucose injections. Ms. Tan immediately felt her internal organs malfunctioning and her heart beat accelerating to the extreme. Her tongue and lips trembled, and she had a sensation as if her heart, lungs, and liver would separate from her body. She felt extremely dizzy, as if her head would split open. She wanted to urinate but there was no urine; she wanted to vomit, but nothing came out. Ms. Tan could not tolerate this and kept crawling and rolling on the ground. However, she did not die and went outside the next morning to do the Falun Gong exercises. When doing individual cell checks, the guard kept asking if Ms. Tan was doing the exercises. When the answer was yes, she was electrically shocked, forcibly injected with higher doses of medicine that increased from 2 tablets to 10 tablets. The nurse monitored her three times a day, to make sure she took the medicine. Each time, they ordered Ms. Tan to open her mouth and checked to see if the tablets were under her tongue. The second month of such abuse found Ms. Tan trembling; she could not hold her bowl or chopsticks, her face was purple, and she had heart pain and headaches. Her entire body turned purple, and her joints hurt. She had astigmatism and could not see clearly. Her menstrual period stopped. She became physically misshapen. She could no longer move her eyelids and experienced a muddled mind and memory loss and showed signs of dementia.

People responsible: Liu Zuojin, Liu Yanxi, and Liu Bingwen
Sun Zhijun, mental division head
Jiang Dengfa, psychology division head
Yang Yanhai, doctor

Mr. Wang Weihe's family of three incarcerated at a mental hospital

Three of Mr. Wang Weihe's family members were arrested after going to Beijing to appeal on February 10th, 2000, and held in the village office. Township deputy party head Wang Xuehao arrived. He and village party head Dong Fenggang took Mr. Wang Weihe's daughter, Ms. Wang Ping, to a room next door, closed the door, and beat her. The persecutors then took the family to the township police station and detained them in separate rooms. Wang Xuehao beat Mr. Wang Weihe, and police station head Zhou Wei beat Ms. Wang Ping. Wang Xuehao ordered Mr. Wang Weihe to sit on the floor, with both legs straight and arms pointing straight forward. He then beat Mr. Wang Weihe brutally, until Mr. Wang lost consciousness. Zhou Wei (who has already received retribution and died at a young age) ordered Ms. Wang Ping to stand with both legs bent. He then used a metal rod to beat every joint in her body. Her joints swelled and hurt. Village party head Dong Fenggang became drunk on wine and beat Mr. Wang Weihe again. He kicked Mr. Wang in the ribs with his boots until the practitioner once again lost consciousness. Mr. Wang was in agony could not eat and had difficulty breathing because of the two severe beatings. Seven days later he was taken to the police station and continued to be detained there. Three months later he and his wife were sent to a mental hospital for even more ruthless abuse and mistreatment.

Mr. Wang was injected with medicine upon arrival and was detained with his wife on the first floor. Their daughter was on the third floor. When doctor Yang Chengchao saw Mr. Wang studying Falun Gong lectures, he kicked him to the floor and continued to kick him back and forth. The doctor then pulled Mr. Wang by the leg to the lobby and then dragged back to the room. Then he tied up Mr. Wang spread-eagle in a bed. After beating him for a while, he injected Mr. Wang with unknown substances. He injected Mr. Wang seven times that evening and tortured him for 11 hours. He did not let Mr. Wang go until it was his time to go off duty. Mr. Wang has since been unable to take care of himself. Yang Chengchao beat him three times within several days. Mr. Wang still has a mental disorder.

People responsible:

Liu Zuojin, Liu Yanxi, Liu Bingwen, Sun Zhijun, mental division heads
Jiang Dengfa, psychological division head
Yang Yanhai, doctor
Wang Xuehao, former Madian Town party head
Zhou Wei, former Majian Town Police Station head, later assigned as detention centre head, died in 2003 at his father-in-law's from unknown causes

The following practitioners are being grossly abused and mistreated at the mental hospital: Lu Yi, Sun Linfang, Liu Zhaohong, Gao Fen, Li Jun, Jin Lanxiang, a practitioner surnamed Tian, Liu Zhongzhi, Li Guifeng, Wang Yongping, An Xianqin, Wei Huayu, and others.

Practitioners sent to forced labour camps:
Mr. Liang Xisheng in Liangjiatun, Zhangying Town, was sent to a labour camp in October 2000.

People responsible:
Liu Zuojin, Liu Xuedong, Chen Xilai, Zhangying Town deputy party heads
Liu Jianqun, Zhangying Town Police Station head
Zhangying Town Police Station officer Li Bingke

The following seven practitioners were sentenced to three years of forced labour by Jiaozhou City 610 Office on December 28th, 2000 (all are from Beiguan Town): Guan Fengbao (Aiguo Village), Zhang Fuyuan (Jiaozhou City Water Resources Bureau), Qiu Yuanyin (Xiwulidui), Guan Fengyong (Aiguo Village), Sun Qijie (Qiandawang Village), Jin Lanxiang (Xiyong Village), and Guan Fang (Aiguo Village)

The following four practitioners were sentenced to two years of forced labour on December 28th, 2000: Xu Zuoe, Kuang Yonghao, Gao Hui, and Liu Xuewei.

Xu Yanzhong was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour in July 2005.

People directly responsible:
Gao Zhenhua, Political and Law Bureau Party secretary
Wang Qiang, 610 Office head
Jiang Pinyang, 610 Office agent
Wang Wenlong, police officer
Wang Yong, police department deputy head

Ms. Song Guixiang and Ms. Song Guilan were arrested and detained at the police station for 14 days as of January 22nd, 2007. Ms. Song Guixiang was sentenced two years of forced labour, and Ms. Song Guilan was sentenced one and a half years of forced labour. Within 10 days after arriving at the labour camp Ms. Song Guixiang had illness symptoms and was released. Ms. Song Guilan is still detained at the Wangcun Labour Camp and is subjected to severe abuse and mistreatment.

People directly responsible:
Gao Zhenhua and Wang Ronghai, Jiaozhou City 610 Office heads
Wang Yong

The following five practitioners are still incarcerated at the Jinan Women's Prison: Wei Cuixia, Wei Junfeng, Liu Hong, and Cao Xiucheng. Liu Baobin is currently held in a male detention centre.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/3/3/219165.html