[Clearwisdom net] Since July 20,
1999, the Political and Security Subsection of Shijiazhuang Public Security
Bureau has become a vicious team that solely and specifically persecutes
Falun Gong practitioners. The team head Ma Wensheng is also the director
of the Hebei “610 Office” [a bureau specifically created by
the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power
over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the
political and judiciary branches]. He is in charge of all the subsections
of the “610 Offices,” anti-Falun Gong brainwashing classes,
forced labor camps, detention centers and prisons within Hebei Province.
He is a key person who brutally trampled Falun Gong practitioners’ rights
by kidnapping, extorting, torturing, detaining, murdering practitioners
and destroying sites where Dafa materials are made. The following is
a report of these crimes against Falun Gong practitioners.
(1) Practitioners are deprived
of sleep, interrogated by torture and murdered
The practitioners were deprived
of sleep in 24-hour cycles. The police illegally interrogated them at
midnight. If a practitioner was sleepy, they would beat him. They said
that this method was used to deal with a criminal who committed severe
crimes. A normal person can only stand this kind of torture for three
days, but it had no effect on practitioners. The police threatened,
“If you still do not answer my question, I will beat you half to
death, then drag you outside, pour gas all over your body and set you
on fire. Then we will say you did it to yourself because of practicing
Falun Gong.”
They cuff practitioners in a very
painful way: the practitioner’s hands are cuffed together behind their
back with one hand over the shoulder and the other hand against the
lower back. The police beat practitioners with iron rods, and slap their
faces until they are severely distorted and totally unrecognizable.
Practitioner Dr. Zhang Huiyin from Shijiazhuang Railroad College was
slapped so hard that he slipped into a coma. The police force practitioners
to sit on iron chairs (one type of torture) with hands cuffed and feet
chained. (The handcuffs deeply cut into practitioners’ flesh and made
their hands dramatically swollen.) Practitioner Shi Yang was forced
to sit on the chair for more than forty days. The prolonged torture
made both of his legs swollen for days and caused him to have trouble
walking. Practitioner Zhang Qiu suffered on the chair so severely that
he was not able to walk at all. The police forced his family to carry
him home.
If a practitioner went on a hunger
strike to protest their brutal maltreatment, seven or eight policemen
would hold the practitioner down, and pinch his nose in preparation
to “force feed” him. Aside from the force-feeding itself,
this preparation alone was torture. They had inserted the tube into
a practitioner’s lungs while force-feeding him, which caused him to
have a high fever. Later they just drove the practitioner on hunger
strike to Shijiazhuang Chinese Medicine Hospital to induce the force-feeding.
Because they tortured so many practitioners in this way, the nurses
in the hospital did not want to cooperate with them, they said “They
(practitioners) are over fifty or sixty old and you still torture them
in such a way, what if one of them died from it?”
In March 2001, they beat practitioner
Liu Shusong, a graduate from Hebei Medical University, to death.
(2) Extort and loot practitioners’
money and property
The police search practitioners’
homes without any legal process and loot them of all their properties.
On September 18, they illegally took away kidnapped practitioners’ personal
property and their bank savings totaling around 10,000 Yuan [Chinese
currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is
about 500 Yuan] in cash. They also stole items such as washing machines,
TVs, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, computers, pagers, cellular phones,
chairs and other furniture while illegally searching practitioners’
homes. The police keep items they stole for themselves and never returned
them to their owners. Besides that, they utilized every means to extort
money from practitioners and their families. At times the kidnapped
practitioners refused to give out their names and addresses. The police
summon practitioners’ families to identify them. After torturing the
practitioners, the police demand their family members pay for all the
“fees.”
Practitioner Zhang Linjiang was
kidnapped to a hotel and was interrogated by torture for a whole month.
The police extorted thousands of Yuan from his family as a so-called
“hotel fee.” The fact is that the hotel was rented and taken
over by the police. In another case, when a practitioner was illegally
arrested, the police asked his family to identify him and then were
going to sentence him without any legal process. The police demanded
his family pay over ten thousand Yuan as a so called “arresting
fee.” The family openly refused the police’s ridiculous request.
The police also extorted money from
a landlord who was not a practitioner but rented a room to a Falun Gong
practitioner. After the practitioner who was forced to live outside
because of the persecution was arrested, the police extorted between
one and ten thousand yuan from the landlord with the excuse of “providing
a place (for Falun Gong practitioners).” They even waited outside
near the house complex to arrest any practitioner who might drop by.
(3) Slandering, deceiving and
brainwashing
The practitioners who were just
arrested were brutally beat up by the police. If the beating did not
make the practitioners give in, they would be sent to a brainwashing
session. Some practitioners gave up under the intense physical and mental
torture. The first thing the police would order them to do is “cooperate”
with police to name other practitioners for arrest, such as paging another
practitioner to meet somewhere. If that practitioner came, the police
would arrest him.
If a practitioner did not give up
in two to three days, the police would use the attachment of some practitioners
who were impatiently hoping to get away from the detention to continue
to rectify the Fa on the outside. They let the practitioner go free
on purpose and make a false pretense that the practitioner successfully
escaped. Then they would secretly tail the practitioner and would arrest
them when meeting with other practitioners. When they re-arrested the
practitioner, the policemen would pretend to have been punished for
letting him escape and would beg and deceive the practitioner to “help”
him by giving out other practitioners’ information.
When they pretended to release a
practitioner, they would monitor him near his home, trying to find out
whom he contacted, or tail him to find a site where Dafa materials are
made. They released collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who
have gone astray due to brainwashing and torture] and used a practitioner’s
compassionate heart of caring for his family and friends to deceive
and arrest him.
Under public pressure, they had
to release some steadfast practitioners who went through the torture.
Because these practitioners were very clear about the crimes committed
against them, in order to protect themselves the police spread rumors
everywhere saying these practitioners already sold out to the police
and were collaborators. They laughed at these practitioners saying,
“Nobody will believe your words, how can you reveal the evil!”
They were very worried about those
released practitioners who apparently did not give up while at same
time knew the police’s crimes against practitioners. To monitor and
tail these practitioners, the police used all methods to “squeeze”
them into companies that were supported by the Public Security Bureau.
If they found the practitioner became active in practicing Falun Gong
again, they would repeatedly arrest them.
(4) The Police fear people will
become aware of their vicious doings against practitioners and try very
hard to hide away evidence
On the surface, these vicious police
are extremely confident and strong. Inside, they are afraid in every
nerve. To cover up their crimes of torturing practitioners, they discarded
the regular office and setup a mobile office. They usually rent a house
as a temporary office but do not put any sign outside. The places they
use to interrogate practitioners are rented big, easy-built iron rooms
with no windows. They do not stay in one place for very long and keep
moving. They have temporary offices at Shijiazhuang West 2nd Circle,
North 2nd Circle, Plant Garden, Atom 4th Institution, 812 Military Storage
Building and in other places. When they throw the arrested practitioner
in their car, or transfer him to other detention places, or even drive
the practitioner to a hospital for force-feeding, they squeeze the practitioner
under the seat, or cover his head with cloth. In case the practitioner
should remember the route and find their temporary office, they drive
the car in circles around the destination or take extra unnecessary
turns. For example, they interrogated a practitioner in 812 Military
Storage Building and then wanted to transfer him to a hotel where he
would be brainwashed by some collaborators. Normally it would just take
no more than five minutes to drive but they spent a half hour on the
road.
After their crimes were exposed,
they changed their strategy by kidnapping practitioners to rural areas
that were far away from Shijiazhuang City, such as Zhengding Town and
Xinle Town. They gathered some local thugs to beat up and torture practitioners.
Practitioner Shi Lanhui was kidnapped to Zhengding Town on Chinese New
Year’s Day. They ordered the local branch of the “610 Office”
to brutally beat him. He was forced to kneel down on the ground, iron
rods were used to forcefully press and gouge his legs, and he was hit
with iron bars; he suffered continuous torture. In May 2001, they kidnapped
practitioner Zuo Zhigang to the Xinghua Police Station. Zuo Zhigang
was tortured to death in less than 24 hours while in police custody.
Xinghua Police Station has been renamed “Weiming Street Police
Station.” But the responsible policeman Bai Yuanji is still there.
Whatever they did to cover their crimes, it will end in failure.
(5) Perpetrators
Ma Wensheng: Team head, also the
director of the “610 Office” of Hebei Province
Deng Fang: deputy team head
Heads of subsections:
Zhang Qiuli, pager: 96777 ext.3237;
Mobile phone: 86-13001881133
Li Ruihai and Wang Xiaofeng;
Policeman Ma Yong: Joined the training
in Law Education and Training Class in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
to learn how to torture Falun Gong practitioners, he is in charge of
brainwashing classes.
Policeman Li Yong: Graduated from
Central Political and Law University. Female practitioner Yao Jianrong
from Shijiazhuang Railroad Public Security was kidnapped for practicing
Falun Gong. Li Yong used deceitful means to get some information from
her. Using the “information,” he fabricated charges and sent
her to a forced labor camp. For this, his supervisors praised him.
Bai Yuanji: policeman in Weiming
Street Police Station
Pager: 96777 ext. 12129; Office
phone: 86-311-7888193 ext. 8010
Note:
812 Military Storage Building is
located near East Yuhua Road and South Shengli Street, on the south
side of Xingfang Road. There is no sign on the gate, it is an isolated
complex. Entering the gate, on the right side is a kitchen that faces
north. The west side is a huge iron garage without any opening. There
are iron chairs inside. This is one place they use to torture practitioners.
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Posting date: 4/Nov/2002
Original article date: 14/Oct/2002
Category: News from China
