Torture and Police Terror Lead to Another 16 Falun Gong Deaths in China (Photo)

NEW
YORK (FDI) — Presented below is much of what has been confirmed about
the deaths of another 16 Falun Gong practitioners who were persecuted
in China for refusing to give up their spiritual beliefs.

Falun
Gong practitioners are often bound, beaten, brutally tortured and even
disfigured with wooden batons and electric cattle prods. Brainwashing
and mental tortures are also extensively used, and often, practitioners
are force-fed toxic
liquids, even those mixed with human feces and urine, when they protest
with hunger strikes. Women and men alike are sexually abused and subjected
to disgusting atrocities.

Still,
Falun Gong practitioners continue to appeal peacefully and non-violently
to bring an end to the Jiang regime's persecution of “Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance,”
the essential teachings of Falun Gong, and the principles that the practitioners
listed below have defended with their lives.

The
deaths of at least 578 practitioners (reports / sources)
have been documented by the Falun Dafa Information Center, while reliable
sources in China suggest the true figure to be in the thousands.

Practitioners
Recently Reported Dead from Persecution include:

• Ms.
  Liu ShuFen was killed shortly after she witnessed police beat fellow
  practitioner Ms. Zhang Dezhen to death in a Shandong Province detention
  center
• Mr.
  Sun Shizong, who died after guards ordered other labor camp inmates
  to beat him
• Ms.
  Ren Hanfen, a 73 year old space scientist, fell to her death under police
  pursuit
• Ms.
  Zhou Wenjie, an English teacher in her 40's from Liaoyuan City,
  Jilin Province
• Ms.
  Fu Guilan, a woman who went to Beijing to appeal for justice from Harbin,
  Heilongjiang Province
• Mr.
  Yu Tianyong, tortured to death in Wanjia Labor Camp's “hospital”
• Ms.
  Du Guilan from Hegang City, died in a police raid on a material site
• Mr.
  Sui Futao, died after brutal beatings in Chao-yang-gou Forced Labor
  Camp
• Ms.
  Zhang Zhen, a 39 year old high school teacher from Mengyin County, Shandong
  Province
• A
  practitioner whose name is unknown, died over the Chinese New Year as
  a result of force-feeding
  in a Mengyin County hospital, Shandong Province
• Dr.
  Zhang Yunyi, a physician from Beijing, after surviving brutal torture
  in a forced labor camp, died after his release in a police raid on a
  material site
• Mr.
  Peng Fangjian, a 45 year-old, appears to have died from brutal beatings
  in a police detention center
• Ms.
  Zhang Zhibing, a woman from Qinglong County, Hebei Province, beaten
  to death in December 2000
• Ms.
  Wang Fengqin, 36, died two days after being picked up by Yantai police
  for distributing Falun Gong materials
  near a local hotel
• Ms.
  Wang Shouhu died as a result of force feeding
  administered during a hunger strike

Ms. Liu ShuFen was killed shortly after she witnessed police beat
fellow practitioner Ms. Zhang Dezhen to death in a Mengyin
County, Shandong Province detention center on January 29, 2003. The two,
together with many others, had been arrested while distributing Falun
Gong flyers. Both Ms. Liu and Ms. Zhang were taken aside and cruelly
tortured together. Ms. Liu was the only witness to Ms. Zhang's death
at the hands of their captors. To hide their misdeeds, Ms. Liu was beaten
unconscious and taken to hospital for “brain surgery.” The other practitioners
jailed with Ms. Liu report that at this time, she was still breathing
normally, and she didn't seem to be feverish. They felt that she
was simply unconscious from the beating, but the guards dragged her out,
and she died tragically after her “operation.”

Mr. Sun Shizhong from Songyuan City, Jilin Province was arrested
and taken to Jiutai Labor Camp on March 24. 2003. A group of inmates,
under direct orders from camp guards, beat him to death. Guard Lu Changtai
is reported to be most directly responsible for Mr. Sun's death.
He ordered the inmates to torture Falun Gong practitioners, and rewarded
those who best carried out his twisted directives. Zhang Laoqi, Zhang
Dapeng, Xie Yunpu, Wang Bo, Pan Zhaotian and Xue Quan were among other
practitioners similarly beaten. After Sun's death, the guards put
all blame on the inmates, behaving as if the tragedy had nothing to do
with them. To stop information about the atrocity from leaking to the
outside world, prisoners were forbidden to leave their quarters, and calls
and visits with family were denied. Practitioner Lu Changtai also disappeared
at this time. His current condition and whereabouts are unknown.

Ms. Ren Hanfen, a 73 year old long time Party cadre and widely
respected aeronautical engineer active in China's space program for
decades, was kidnapped from her workplace, the Aeromechanics Institute
in Beijing's Fengtai district, and subjected to a lengthy term of
brainwashing because she wouldn't renounce her practice of Falun
Gong. Under coercion, and with the promise of her early release if she
did so, she finally signed a statement promising to give up the practice,
even though it was against her will. After her release from brainwashing,
spies frequently harassed Ms. Ren Hanfen, leaving her little choice but
to flee her home to avoid further persecution. Searching her out, the
police found her in a rented apartment and blocked her in. Ms. Ren tried
to escape, tying a rope from the window and falling to her death while
climbing down. After her death, the authorities tried to block new of
her death from leaking out.

Ms. Zhou Wenjie, an English teacher at Donfeng County No.2
Middle School in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province was persecuted to death
on May 26, 2002. Zhou was completely cured of a serious case of diabetes
after practicing Falun Gong. When southern China suffered widespread flooding
in 1998, she donated 25,000 Yuan that she had saved to buy a house to
the government. Zhou was sentenced to1 year of forced labor in Heizuizi
Female Labor Camp in Jilin Province for appealing for Falun Gong in 1999.
On May 20th 2002, Changchun Railroad Station Police kidnapped her while
distributing Falun
Gong materials. Zhou refused to give her name and address and protested
her arrest by going on a hunger strike. She died only six days later.

Ms. Fu Guilan from Harbin City died tragically on December
29, 2002. Fu went to Beijing to appeal when the persecution of Falun Gong
began in July 1999. She was arrested and sent home for 9 months of detention.
In April 2001, police from Nangang Police Station arrested her while she
was making Falun
Gong materials and sentenced her to 2 years of forced labor. She protested
her illegal detention by going on a hunger strike until her life was in
danger, and she was released for medical reasons. In 2002, police again
took Fu away, this time from one of her children's home. She continued
to protest through hunger strike until her death on December 29, 2002.

Ms. Du Guilan was killed in a recent wake of mass arrests of
Falun Gong practitioners in Hegang City. In mid-January 2003, Hegang police
searched a local apartment that was used as a Falun Gong material
site and arrested practitioners Fan Chunyan and Han Ru, who have since
disappeared. 10 days later, the site was again raided and police confiscated
the copy machine and all of the materials. Du Guilan was in the apartment
at the time, and she tragically died attempting to escape from the police
by jumping out a second story window.

Mr. Yu Tianyong died in the “care” of Wanjia Forced Labor Camp
Hospital. Illegally arrested by Taiping police on January 1, 2001, Yu
was sentenced to 10 years in a Harbin City prison. He was released due
to rapidly declining health. Authorities returned him to prison after
a partial recovery, and he was later transferred to the Wanjia Labor Camp
Hospital where he died in January 2003.

Mr. Sui Futao from Liuhe County, Jilin province, was persecuted
to death in Chao-yang-gou Labor Camp. He was first detained in Tonghua
Labor Camp and then transferred to Chao-yang-gou Labor Camp in Changchun
in December 2001. During Sui's first two days at Chao-yang-gou Labor
Camp, he was brutally beaten twice, until his face was swollen, black
and blue, and he was left unable to eat for days. After that, in the poor
conditions of the camp, his health declined rapidly and he died in June
2002 at the age of 30. The warden of Chao-yang-gou labor camp, Wang Yanwei,
is reported to be directly responsible for Sui Futao's death, though
in attempts to escape responsibility for his death, camp authorities claim
Sui died of heart attack.

Ms. Zhang Zhen was a 39 year-old Jiuzhaixiang High School teacher
from Mengyin County, Shandong Province. Zhang went on a hunger strike
to protest her illegal detention, so she was sent to Mengyin County Chinese
Medicine Hospital to be force-fed. She died as a result, over the 2003
Chinese New Year holidays.

Another Falun Gong practitioner, whose name is still unknown,
also died during the same period of time at the same hospital. Hospital
officials claim that both victims died of heart attack.

Dr. Zhang Yunyi, a physician in his thirties was one of the
chief doctors at the Beijing Western and Chinese Medicine Combination
Hospital. Dr. Zhang faced frequent police harassment at his residence
in Fuzhou City and was arrested while distributing Falun Gong materials
in the summer of 2000, and detained at Tuanhe Labor Camp, where he suffered
brutal torture. After being released, he returned to Fuzhou City. In August
2002, police broke into the apartment where Zhang and some other practitioners
were living. They confiscated a large number of materials disclosing the
true situation of the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Zhang refused
to answer any questions and died after jumping out of a window in an attempt
to escape.

Mr. Peng Fangjian, a 45 year-old from Suining City, Sichuan
Province, died on February 10. On January 28, 2003, Peng was kidnapped
from his home and taken to the Renli Police Station by local policemen
Yuan Xiaolin, Hu Zongcheng and Zhang Kangping. Three days later, he was
transferred to Lingquansi Detention Center where he went on a hunger strike
to protest his illegal detention. Less than two weeks later, on February
10, Peng died as a result of the brutalities committed against him. To
conceal incriminating evidence, the police quickly cremated his body.
Relatives permitted to see his body before cremation described how Peng's
eyes and mouth were wide open, with both arms straight out with the hands
clenched into fists, bruises on the back of his head at the base of his
skull.

Ms. Zhang Zhibing, a practitioner from Qinglong County, Hebei
Province in her thirties, was beaten to death in December 2000. A “610
Office” representative refused to discuss details of the case with a local
reporter, denying her death and claiming, “We have rules. I can only talk
about this with county officials.” Ms. Zhang Zhibing's is the 63rd
death confirmed in Hebei Province.

Ms. Wang Fengqin, a 36 year old woman from Yantai City, Shandong
Province, died in Zhifu South Suburban Detention Center a mere two days
after being arrested for distributing Falun Gong materials near Liuhuangding
Hotel on January 26, 2003. When family members were called in, they found
her clothes frozen to her body and her wrists showing handcuff marks.
The policemen extorted 1,000 Yuan from Ms. Wang's family and quickly
cremated her body.

Ms. Wang Shouhu died in November 2002 in Changchun City No.3
Detention Center from cruelly administered force-feeding
attempts during her hunger strike protesting her illegal detention.

NEWS – Feb. 25, 2003
Falun Dafa Information Center, www.faluninfo.net

http://faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=7052

Posting date: 27/Feb/2003
Original article date: 25/Feb/2003
Category: News from China