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2006-05-03T21:17:00.000-07:00

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Christians Arrested for Supporting Dr. Wenyi Wang

2006-05-03T00:23:00.000-07:00

taken from epochtimes

White House Protest by Defense Coalition

By Court Pearman

Epoch Times Washington, DC staff

May 03, 2006

Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney (right) and wife Katie (left) of Seattle WA, along with Brandi Swindell (center) of Boise ID, kneel behind the White House on May 2. They plan to ask President Bush to drop all charges against Dr. Wenyi Wang. (Lisa Fan/The Epoch Times)

- Gao Zhisheng's Open Letter to the Jury of Wang Wenyi
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 9:06:00 PM

- A Cry to Awaken Our Conscience
Monday, April 24, 2006 9:50:00 PM

- "President Bush, Stop Him From Killing!"
Friday, April 28, 2006 6:08:00 PM

On Tuesday May 2, 2006 at 11:00 am, members of the Christian Defense Coalition and Generation Life were arrested for kneeling in front of the White House to pray for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China, and to show solidarity for Dr. Wenyi Wang who faces six months of prison for interrupting Chinese communist leader Hu's speech at the White House.

The three individuals, Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney and wife Katie of Seattle, WA, along with Brandi Swindell of Boise, ID, notified the authorities last night of their plan to protest. They arrived in Lafayette Park, protest signs in hand, 15 minutes prior to address their supporters.

"Jesus said, 'When you do it unto the least of these, you do it unto me,'" quoted Rev. Mahoney, as a translator relayed his testimony in Chinese to a group of elderly Falun Gong practitioners. "We will go there, and kneel and pray in front of the White House for an end to the organ harvesting - which is beyond words as to how despicable it is. We will ask President Bush to drop all charges [against Dr. Wang], and when we are arrested and go to jail, we are standing in solidarity with our sister Dr. Wenyi Wang, and with all the Falun Gong who are in jail in China," said Mahoney evoking an enthusiastic round of applause.

Ms. Swindell said, "I was saddened to see faith trampled on in China. I was also inspired when I saw Dr. Wenyi Wang on the news... I feel shame that my country would treat her this way."

Before the Christians made their walk to the gate, a plainclothes policeman came up to them and informed them that the Police computer systems were down, and it would take longer to process them once arrested. Then a Falun Gong practitioner and persecution victim, Jane Dai and her 7 year old daughter, Fadu, cried together and handed the Reverend Mr. Mahoney a picture of the family's father, who was tortured to death in China for his belief in Falun Gong.

"Right now in China, peaceful members of Falun Gong are persecuted and their organs harvested. We call upon President Bush to uphold the basic principles that no one should be persecuted, intimidated, or harassed for their religious beliefs."

The Mahoneys and Ms. Swindell turned and made their way to the White House gate, where they kneeled in prayer. Like clockwork, the National Park Police pulled all the tourists away from the gates and cordoned off the area with yellow tape. While the police decided whether or not to transport the protesters in a squad car or a wagon, Rev. Mahoney, still on his knees, called out to the scores of tourists, explaining why he was there. "Right now in China, peaceful members of Falun Gong are persecuted and their organs harvested. We call upon President Bush to uphold the basic principles that no one should be persecuted, intimidated, or harassed for their religious beliefs." The women remained in prayer with signs on their backs showing pictures of Dr.Wenyi Wang, and calls to end organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners.

After their allotted legal time in front of the gate, only about five-minutes, the police gave them one last warning then handcuffed the three. The three shouted in unison, the same words Dr. Wang shouted to the President, "President Bush, stop him from killing!" Katie Mahoney was the last to go, as she had managed to tie her hands to the gate with rope.

As they marched one by one to the paddy-wagon, their supporters let tears fall, and shouted "Thank you" after them in English and Chinese.

The two women were released at roughly 5 pm the same evening, and the Mr. Mahoney forty minutes later. The three immediately joined in a phone conference and spoke with Dr. Wang for the first time. They thanked Dr. Wang for her inspirational actions, and in turn Dr. Wang expressed her deep appreciation for their solidarity and assured them that the Falun Gong practitioners in China are likewise grateful for their personal sacrifices.

Human rights attorney, Dr. Terri Marsh, represents Dr. Wang in a civil capacity, and assisted in the release of the three Christians. "It's unusual for people to stand up for other people, much less get arrested for them. These protesters are very special people," commented Dr. Marsh.

The three are also expected to appear at the "Friends of Wenyi" rally in front of the Washington DC U.S. District Courthouse at 8:30 am on Wednesday May 3.

tags: china

Bills with "Quitting the CCP" Slogan Are Popular in China

2006-04-26T22:56:00.000-07:00

Currency bills with "quitting the CCP" slogans are now spreading around china. I do think it's a very inteligent way fighting back against the tyranny of the CCP while at the same time spreading the word around. Now who says chinese only work hard. They do work smart too. Bellow are some interesting excerpts from the epochtimes article: Bills with "Quitting the CCP" Slogan Are Popular in China.

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Because of the lack of Internet access, many mainland Chinese are promoting the campaign via notice boards, bus station display boards, and even on electricity poles and that's not all.
An Epoch Times journalist first saw bank notes with slogans such as "Read the Nine Commentaries," "Hurry, Quit the CCP", and "Heaven Eliminate the CCP," last November, and he realized then that it was getting popular for mainland Chinese people to pass these messages using bills.
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Chinese are indeed savvy oppurtunist. Read bellow about many collecting this dissident bill as souvenirs to be sold later when the CCP goes to hell.

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Normally, people who have this kind of money would try to use them, but recently, there were also people collecting them as souveniers for when the communist regime collapses these "notes" could be worth a lot of money.

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Appeal to TomKat fans from china

2006-04-26T22:47:00.000-07:00

Tom and Katie just gave birth to a beautiful baby. They are lucky and fortunate to have a new life born into their life and into a world of freedom. Where one can they what they want and go where they want to.

Such a precious thing is rare in china. Where people are detained and torture for their belief. Right now thousands are wasting away in slave labor camps working to produce product for western companies. Thousands prisonners end up being killed for their organs. Having their organs taken out while they are dying. Still aware what evil things is being done to their bodies.

Such evil atrocities does happend. I hope that it will stop soon. And I wish Suri the best of life has to offer.

Please spread the word and help end the following human rights abuse and attrocities happenning in china. I hope the best for michelle and many of the oppressed citizens in china.

Warning: This article contains distrubing images of injuries inflicted by torture.

Many more torture stories from inside china: here and here

Li Ping

Liu Xianxi's press release

Shandong

Wang Xia

Gao Rongrong

Liu Yufeng

Zhang Hong

Wang Yunjie

Yang Lidong

Pang Xingfu

Liu JiZhi

Gao Hongfei,

Geng Huaipu

Ren Shujie

Li Yangfang

An Senbiao

Reenactment of torture methods

Many more torture stories from inside china: here and here

tags: china, asia, East Asia, human rights, human-rights, Politics, Current Affairs, news, china torture, abu ghraib, suri cruise, suri, tomkat, tom cruise, katie holmes

Appeal to Michelle Rodriguez fans from china

2006-04-26T10:14:00.000-07:00

Michelle just got sentence to 5 days of jail. While I think it's unfortunate for her. I also think she's lucky she is a american citizen. A citizen of the free world. Many of us westerners are not aware of what life is like in authoritarian countries like china and uzbeskistan.

There're some people who are oppressed and torture. Take the prisoners in china for instances. Most of them are also organ donors, who are killed for their organs for commercially sale.

Please spread the word and help end the following human rights abuse and attrocities happenning in china. I hope the best for michelle and many of the oppressed citizens in china.

Warning: This article contains distrubing images of injuries inflicted by torture.

Many more torture stories from inside china: here and here

Li Ping

Liu Xianxi's press release

Shandong

Wang Xia

Gao Rongrong

Liu Yufeng

Zhang Hong

Wang Yunjie

Yang Lidong

Pang Xingfu

Liu JiZhi

Gao Hongfei,

Geng Huaipu

Ren Shujie

Li Yangfang

An Senbiao

Reenactment of torture methods

Many more torture stories from inside china: here and here

tags: china, asia, East Asia, human rights, human-rights, Politics, Current Affairs, news, china torture, abu ghraib, michelle rodriguez, lost, jj abrams

Appeal: Nick Lachey fans

2006-04-26T00:40:00.000-07:00

Nick Lachey is a good looking guy, successful and recently gained freedom after divorcing Jessica Simpson. But There're some people who are oppressed and torture. Take prisoners in china for instances. Most of them are also organ donors, who are killed for their organs for commercially sale.

Please spread the word and help end the following human rights abuse and attrocities happenning in china.

Warning: This article contains distrubing images of injuries inflicted by torture.

Many more torture stories from inside china: here and here

Li Ping

Liu Xianxi's press release

Shandong

Wang Xia

Gao Rongrong

Liu Yufeng

Zhang Hong

Wang Yunjie

Yang Lidong

Pang Xingfu

Liu JiZhi

Gao Hongfei,

Geng Huaipu

Ren Shujie

Li Yangfang

An Senbiao

Reenactment of torture methods

Many more torture stories from inside china: here and here

tags: china, asia, East Asia, human rights, human-rights, Politics, Current Affairs, news, china torture, abu ghraib, nick lachey, jessica simpson

Free Hao Wu- it's a gray gray world afterall

2006-04-25T22:49:00.000-07:00

I just stumbled upon hao wu's sister-nina's english translated blog here managed by the good people of global voice.

For those not in the know. Hao Wu is a christian film maker in china who got abducted by the police and has not been heard from since February 22, 2006.

He's sister has been working hard to secure he's release but the local police has been giving her the run around. This is her blog in chinese. And this is Hao Wu's blog- beijing or bust written by him before he became the VIP guest of the chinese police.

She writes of the helplessness she feels in this situation. For 2 months she kept her parents in the dark regarding her brother's situation. Holding the burden of having to comfort her parents and secured the release of her brother.

It is a gray color world. Nina admit herself of the being politically naive. Distractred by the new economic dream that gave the new chinese middle class overseas vacations and earning powers. Her new ordeal proves that the world of ikea, vacations, credit cards and 5 star hotel buffets is still gray in color. It is the darkest of gray in the dark lairs of the evil communist party.

Now I'm sure Nina knows how it feels to be the family members of prosecuted falun gong members, underground churches member, Uyghurs muslims, tibetans and chinese villagers who lost their land to the evil CCP.

Bless them for using their enegry and oppurtunity in the free world to fight for the supressed. It's not the job of the local chinese police. No. Their jobs is to supress and bully the innocent. Bless you Rebecca Mackinnon and ethan zuckerman and affliates.

tags: china, hao wu, Asia, free hao wu

Chinese Christian News

2006-04-25T01:25:00.000-07:00

tags: christian, china, prosecution

Isn't it ironic

2006-04-24T23:28:00.000-07:00

They say a picture tells a million stories. What does this picture say? Isn't it ironic. An african american secret service officer, suppressing another minority. Clamping her hands on the mouth of another opressed. Given the african american's history of fighting of civil rights. This picture comes off as profounding.

Here's another picture. Of wang wenyi. She clearly rocks as proclaim by michelle malkins.
Here she is confronting Jiang Zemin the self absorbed megalomaniac coward in malta 2001.

china

Wang WenYi vs Hu Jin Tao in youtube

2006-04-24T23:08:00.000-07:00

It's that time of the year when snakes gather around squirming to continue nature's design. Hu the snake was found cuddling togethere with bill the toothless bitch and some boneless chinese business money counters.

Later on the next day. Hu got into some trouble. Catch a recap of Wang WenYi the granny protester vs Hu the cunning liar. here.

Another day later wang wenyi goes on CNN for an interview. here.

catch this video quick. Before youtube is forced to "respect the legitimate government's" laws.

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China in the news

2006-04-24T22:56:00.000-07:00

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sujiatun on google earth and wikipedia

2006-04-16T11:05:00.000-07:00

according to this guy's flickr page on sujiatun. I manage to take a look at google's map and google earth.

for google earth either search for shenyang or for Latitude: 41°47'60.00"N and Longitude: 123°26'59.99"E.

An interesting thing appear when I look at the google earth screen. As shown by the picture unit 100 is located here.

According to wikipedia on Unit 100:

Unit 100
"I put as much as a gram of heroin into some porridge and gave this porridge to an arrested Chinese citizen who ate it; about 20 minutes later he lost consciousness and remained in that state until he died 15-16 hours later. We knew that such a dose of heroin is fatal, but it did not make any difference to us whether he died or lived. On some of the prisoners I experimented 5-6 times, testing the action of Korean bindweed, bactal and castor oil seeds. One of the prisoners of Russian nationality became so exhausted from the experiments that no more could be performed on him, and Matsui ordered me to kill that Russian by giving him an injection of potassium cyanide. After the injection, the man died at once. Bodies were buried in the unit's cattle cemetery."

Sick things has been occuring here to the innocents, tortured by sick people since the 1930s. I wonder what's the significants of this area.

Sujiatun is the scene of the controversy now. Thousands of live slaughters for human organ has been allege to occur here. There are 2 thousand falun gong prisonners left. People say they will be slaughtered for organs and to destroy evidences.

tags: china, sujiatun, shenyang

CNN: Kill and cull: China rejects doctor's testimony

2006-04-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

Before the epoch times, before china and US become buddies again. The same story was ran in CNN as what is being reported in epochtimes today. 5 years later. Nothing has been done to stop the attrocities and rescue the prisonners. The victims of greed and cruelty. Prisonners are still being slaughter like caged chickens in a market. Chosen and then slaugther. Today it's been announce innocent falun gong members are slaughters by the thousand for organ harvesting profit. People claimn there thousands still alived to be slaughter for profit and to destroy evidence. Below is the excerpt taken from cnn.

Kill and cull: China rejects doctor's testimony

June 28, 2001 Posted: 6:23 AM EDT (1023 GMT)

Wang Guoqi told Congress he had helped remove the organs from prisoners whose executions had been intentionally botched

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China has denied allegations of harvesting and selling the body parts of executed prisoners, sometimes before the donors were clinically dead.

The allegations were made by a Chinese doctor, Wang Guoqi, during testimony to U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, where he described coordinated procedures between surgeons and Chinese government officials to extract convicts' organs immediately after executions.

Wang, who is seeking political asylum in the U.S., said he worked at execution grounds, helping surgeons operate in ambulances to harvest the organs of executed prisoners, without prior consent.

Denying the claims, Beijing accused Wang of lying.

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"Any clear-sighted person can see that this is a vicious slander against China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said.

"I believe for personal purposes, they have gone so far as to create those sensational lies."

"With regard to the trade in human organs, China strictly prohibits that. The major source of human organs comes from voluntary donations from Chinese citizens," she said.

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Chinese officials say organs are only transplanted from executed convicts with consent.

China executes more prisoners each year than any other nation. According to reports from the human rights group Amnesty International, China executed more than 1,000 people last year alone.

Wang's testimony is not the first time such an allegation has been made, but his testimony is considered rare because it offers an eyewitness account from someone who claims to have been directly involved in the practice.

A state department official in Washington told CNN the White House has expressed its concerns to China over reports of the practice.

Tortured conscience

Wang told the U.S. House of representatives Subcommittee on Human Rights he had also worked at a crematorium, carving skin off convicts bodies for use on burns victims.

Corneas and other body tissue were also removed for transplant, Wang said.

His hospital, the Tianjin Paramilitary Police General Brigade Hospital, then sold the body parts for profit.

Speaking before the subcommittee, Wang described the procedures, saying that often group executions were organized to facilitate the demand for organ transplants.

"It is with deep regret and remorse that I stand here today testifying against the practices of organ and tissue sales from death row prisoners," he said.

"My work required me to remove the skin and corneas from the corpses of over one hundred prisoners, and on a couple of occasions, victims of intentionally botched executions."

Wang said that prisoners were given blood tests to determine their compatibility with donor seekers.

He said his conscience was tortured after an incident in October 1995 when he was ordered to remove skin from a prisoner still alive.

The prisoner -- sentenced to death for robbery and murder -- was administered an anti-blood clotting agent and then shot.

Wang said the prisoner did not die immediately and was taken into the back of an ambulance where urologists removed his kidneys.

Wang and other surgeons then harvested the prisoner's skin before putting the body -- still not dead -- in a plastic bag then into a truck.

Shortly after that incident Wang said he had requested a transfer within the hospital before entering the U.S. with a fake passport, aiming to alert the international community to the practice.

While living in the U.S., Wang made contact with Chinese-American human rights activist Harry Wu -- himself once imprisoned in China.

Wu heads the Laogai foundation, a non-profit organization campaigning against the collection of organs from Chinese Prisoners.

'Only in China'

According to Wu, Chinese government documents show Beijing is actively helping military hospitals make money selling the skin, corneas, kidneys and livers of executed prisoners.

"This human rights violation is very unique. It does not happen in any other country, only in China," Reuters quoted Wu saying.

Wu said patients outside of China who are willing to pay for the organs are helping to drive a growing trade.

Sometimes the money comes from Americans, he said, with a kidney for a foreign patient probably costing around $30,000.

According to an unwritten policy, he said, priority recipients of organs were high-ranking officials, wealthy overseas Chinese and other foreigners.

Human rights activists say China isn't the only guilty party and the business of organs for sale happens elsewhere.

But they say the practice of removing organs without consent from the prisoner or relatives was an abhorrent human rights violation.

Evidence 'overwhelming'

"Congress cannot allow this horrific situation to go unchallenged," said U.S. Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who heads the panel that held Wednesday's hearing.

While some Congress members were skeptical whether Wang's allegations were true, Michael Parmly of the U.S. State Department's human rights bureau said the evidence was "overwhelming and growing".

"[The] sources who have reported this are credible and numerous," he said.

Ros-Lehtinen and other members of congress have introduced a resolution to prohibit visas for any Chinese physician seeking transplant related training in the United States.

She said the bill would send a strong human rights message to Chinese doctors.

"It tells the Chinese doctors that they better be careful, their visas will not be automatically stamped for approval," she said.

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Wanjia Forced Labor Camp Examined Falun Gong Practitioner's Organ Conditions Four Times

2006-04-14T02:22:00.000-07:00

taken from epochtimes

By Liu Yuan

Epoch Times Staff

Apr 12, 2006

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yuzhi tells her experience of being taken to four hospitals in Harbin for blood and health exams. Her story caused a stir at the court.(The Epoch Times)

At the same time that the atrocities of forced labour camps in China harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' organs for profits and secretly cremating their bodies were exposed to the world, a lawsuit was filed in Argentina against Luo Gan, one of the key officials in the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

Ms. Wang Yuzhi, a Falun Gong practitioner, attended the court trial to testify against Luo Gan. In the court, Ms. Wang stated that she almost went blind as a result of the torture she received at Wanjia Labor Camp in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. The police from the local "610 Office" took her to four different hospitals in Harbin to perform blood tests and to checkup on the condition of her internal organs. Her testimony caused quite a stir in the court.

Luo Gan was the mastermind of the "610 Office," an agency formed specifically to persecute Falun Gong. Luo Gan passed and executed Jiang Zemin's secret orders to persecute Falun Gong, including "eradicating Falun Gong in three months," "defaming Falun Gong practitioners' reputation, bankrupting them financially, destroying them physically," "death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be counted as suicide," and "their bodies shall be directly cremated without investigating their identification."

Since the Chinese Communist regime began the persecution of Falun Gong, human organ transplant operations have become a soaring business in China. The Epoch Times had an interview with Ms. Wang Yuzhi, one of the witnesses in the lawsuit against Luo Gan in Argentina.

Reporter: You are one of the witnesses in the lawsuit against Luo Gan in Argentina. Are you giving any new details in your testimony in this lawsuit?

Ms. Wang: Jiang Zemin is the man that launched the persecution against Falun Gong, but Luo Gan is one of the culprits. I have filed lawsuits against Jiang Zemin in a number of different countries because I have been illegally arrested and tortured in the forced labor camp.

In addition to the cruel tortures I have suffered in Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, this time I gave new details about how the police from the "610 Office" took me to four different hospitals for blood tests and physical exams while I was nearly blind. They secretly checked the condition of my organs in the hospitals. After all four hospitals confirmed that all of my organs were damaged and "useless," the "610 Office" suddenly lost its interest in me.

Lately the media has exposed the grisly atrocities of an extermination camp in Sujiatun, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, that harvested organs from living Falun Gong practitioners before eliminating their bodies in the on-site crematory. These reports made me tremble because it is a missing piece to the puzzle of that time I was taken to four different hospitals for blood tests and for a checkup on the condition of my internal organs. If my internal organs had not been determined as "useless," I might not be standing here today testifying against Luo Gan.

Reporter: Could you tell us briefly about the tortures you were subjected to?

Ms. Wang: The Chinese communist regime had kidnapped me three times. The last time I was incarcerated in Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. Many fellow Falun Gong practitioners and I were subjected to brutal beatings, electric shock, being tied with ropes, being hung up in the air by handcuffs, being forced to sit on metal chairs naked, force-feeding, being forced to stand outside in the snow, being hung up in the air by a rope, and sleep deprivation. These tortures were beyond our limits. Finally, many fellow practitioners and I began a group hunger strike for over 100 days to protest the persecution, but the torture continued despite our protests.

Later in the courtroom, I told the judge and attorneys about the truth of an extermination camp in Sujiatun where living Falun Gong practitioners' organs were harvested for profit. At least 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners were imprisoned there as "stock" in this human organ farm at one point, but 4,000 of them have already been butchered for the harvests of their kidneys, corneas, hearts, lungs and livers for huge profit. Their bodies were exterminated at the camp's crematory oven. I told them that I must know some of them in that extermination camp because I often had nightmares about them. I am terribly sad.

I have to face a cruel fact: If my body had not been "useless" at the time, I would not be able to live to tell this story today. In the past few years I had forgotten many things that injured my mind and health during the illegal incarceration, but I have suddenly become very clearheaded since I started to prepare for the lawsuit against Luo Gan and started to remember a lot more of the details. They came up to my mind as very high-resolution pictures. One of the details I suddenly remembered was why I was able to escape the pain of death and why they wanted to check my internal organs secretly in four different hospitals.

Reporter: You have provided many details about a scheme to harvest your organs. How did you find out about their scheme?

Ms. Wang: When I became critically ill and blind, staff members from the local "610 Office" took me to four very famous hospitals in Harbin for a physical exam. The recent exposure of an extermination camp in Sujiatun triggered my memory and provided me with missing pieces of the puzzle. It was not until then that I realized why they wanted to take me to four different hospitals.

Reporter: Could you please tell us the process where they secretly had your body and organ conditions checked during your imprisonment in Wanjia Forced Labor Camp?

It was between October 2001 and March 2002. (I cannot remember the exact day.) When I was at death's door, the head of Wanjia Forced Labor Camp's hospital, Ms. Song Zhaohui, bickered with the police from the "610 Office." Song Zhaohui said, "It is too much trouble to torture Wang Yuzhi because we have to keep her alive to torture her. She has been on the hunger strike for several months. Her body cells, tissues and organisms are done for. She will die soon. All the rooms are packed. We don't have room for her. She is useless. Give her a prison term and send her off!" Instead, the police from the "610 Office" took me to four different famous hospitals in Harbin for physical exam, including Harbin Public Security Hospital, Heilongjiang No. 2 Hospital, Harbin No. 1 Medical College Hospital and Harbin No. 2 Medical College Hospital. Each time they drew my blood for a blood test. When I resisted giving a blood sample, I was subjected to beatings. Then the police ordered the doctors to give me an anesthesia injection.

On October 25 and 26, 2001, Harbin Public Security Hospital gave me the first general health exam. I also saw several other Falun Gong practitioners receiving health exams in the adjacent rooms. They were all young male practitioners. We were shocked to see each other here. All of us distributed truth-clarification materials in Harbin. We didn't know each other's name, but we recognized each other's faces. We were confused, not knowing what would happen to us next. The police quickly separated us. After I was released, I searched for them for years, but there has been no sign of them.

After a few days, I was taken to Heilongjiang No. 2 Hospital. It is a famous hospital known for its excellent medical experts. I heard them complaining, "Now going to hospitals has become my work!" Based on what they said, I remembered that, besides kidnapping Falun Gong practitioners, the police from "610 Office" sent a lot of Falun Gong practitioners to psychiatric hospitals between 2000 and 2002. They must have tried to examine their bodies in addition to resorting to psychiatric abuses as a means to make them renounce Falun Gong.

A female doctor at Heilongjiang No. 2 Hospital commented that the skin of my thigh was very fair and fine when she examined it. She asked if I had any skin allergy. She was checking me out and noticed that I was scratching my thighs. She said, "Does your skin feel itchy very often?" I replied, "My skin feels itchy because I was ordered to sleep next to a fellow Falun Gong practitioner suffering from severe scabies. Next she did a test on my wrist. Five minutes later, the area she tested on became red. She asked if I had allergy to any medicine, and I told her that I used to have allergic skin and I was allergic to western medicine before I practice Falun Gong. I had to rely on traditional Chinese herbs.

One day in March 2002, Wanjia Forced Labor Camp secretly transferred me to Harbin No. 2 Medical College Hospital. I remember asking the police from the "610 Office," "Why are you spending so much time and energy on taking me to these hospitals for health exams after having subjected me to so much torture?" They replied, "We are treating your illness. We have to treat your illness because we cannot afford to let other people see you like this. Should your current physical condition be exposed, we [610 Office] would be done for. Once you recover your health, our mission will be accomplished." The hospital drew my blood, but my blood was dark purple because I was on a thirst strike too.

They told me to urinate, but my bladder was empty. My heart was pumping so hard that I felt restless. After three hours of the ordeal, I tried to urinate in a urine basin in the room. I still didn't have any urine so they gave me a glucose drip. After about one hour of the glucose drip, they finally got my urine for a urine test. They found blood in my urine. A doctor asked me if I was on my period. I said no. Next they took me to OB/GYN. They gave me an ultrasound scan and said everything was fine. Next they asked if I had any nephritis (kidney inflammation) before I started to practice Falun Gong. I replied, "I had nephritis when I was little. Because of my kidney problem, I often wet my bed. After I got married, the problem improved. Since I started practicing Falun Gong, I have never had any problem with bladder control."

Three policemen and two nurses carried me to the next exam room. They used X-rays to check my heart and lungs. They even gave me an X-ray scan from head to toe. I heard a doctor saying that the machine scanning my heart seemed to be broken because my heart was functioning at random. In one minute it was beating hard, but in the next minute it would stop beating. They pressed on my stomach and the location of my liver, and asked if it hurt. They also used a prop to poke at the bottom of my feet. They poked at my feet very hard and asked if my head hurt. They also flipped over my body to check my kidneys.

At every hospital the police asked the doctors to draw my blood for a blood test. One day I asked a doctor, "What on earth are you trying to find in my blood? I must know this because I will survive and tell the tale." They told me my blood type is AB, which is hard to find. I wouldn't have known my blood type is AB. I was wondering, "Are they trying to give me a blood transfusion or are they trying to give my blood to someone?" Both of my guesses were far from correct because every hospital has a blood bank. At the time I had a hard time guessing what their purpose was.

Later two policemen called Heilongjiang Province's "610 Office" and asked what to do. They were told not to give me emergency resuscitation and send me to Harbin No. 1 Medical College Hospital for another round of checkups.

On the same day I was transferred from Harbin No. 2 Medical College Hospital to Harbin No. 1 Medical College Hospital. They checked my eyes, throat, trachea, five sense organs and brain. Brainwave sensors were taped to my wrists and the back of my head.

A computer monitor showed my brainwave diagram. I was locked in a hospital ward with one policewoman and three policemen watching me. There were a total of 11 SWAT police officers taking turns watching me. They told me, "It would cost USD$100,000 for each eyeball transplant if I should become blind. Your husband who runs the business has run off. No one cares what will happen to you." I closed my eyes, refusing to acknowledge them. I thought they were talking nonsense to add insult to my nearly lost vision when they said it would cost $100,000 for each eye transplant.

I waited for the health exam results at Harbin No.1 College Hospital. The doctor finally announced, "There are problems with her cell tissue. Her pulse shows up at random. Her heart beats at random." In short, my body was "useless." In order to treat my illness, the hospital demanded about 50,000 yuan from my family. However, the "610 Office" suddenly lost interest in me when the doctor said I would be a useless "walking dead person" even if I recovered. Following May 1, each day one policeman would disappear from my room. One night the remaining policemen told me, "In your condition, it does not matter where we leave you. If you survive, go back and look for your family. If you are dead, you will be cremated." Later they just abandoned me in the hospital. I was in disbelief that all the policemen left the hospital on May 8.

Reporter: In the four health exams, did any doctor try to resuscitate you when you were at death's door? Did the "610 Office" give you any medical treatment as they had promised when they found you were ill at the hospital?

Ms. Wang: In the four health exams, the "610 Office" did not give me any medical treatment like they said. They just ordered the hospitals to give me health exams to find out the condition of my organs. It was revealed in the first health exam that there were problems with my blood, my organs were not functioning normally and my corneas were ruined. I was about to become blind. My kidneys were failing. My liver was failing. My skin was contracting scabies. But the "610 Office" refused to give up. They sent me to two other hospitals to repeat the health exam. After the last three hospitals gave the same diagnosis that all of my organs were useless, the "610 Office" suddenly lost interest in me. It even withdrew most of the policemen. The remaining three policemen ran off too. That was why I was able to call a friend of mine without the help of a nurse. That was how I escaped.

Reporter: After you escaped from the hospital, did the "610 Office" try to locate you? Did they find out that you fled from China?

Ms. Wang: After I escaped from the hospital, the "610 Office" didn't look for me. But I heard there were men watching my home, and my home phone was tapped. They probably thought I was dying soon and was useless to them.

In just twenty days, I recovered my health by practicing Falun Gong. Soon I escaped from China successfully. In the United Arab Emirates, I clarified the truth to Chinese tourists in order to rescue those fellow practitioners imprisoned in China. I told them I was subjected to horrific torture simply because I refused to give up my belief in Falun Gong. That was when the "610 Office" became shocked. They kidnapped me in the United Arab Emirates and tried to send me back to China. Fortunately, the Canadian government was informed of my situation at the pivotal moment and rescued me from their hands. That's how I arrived in Canada.

Reporter: Has the organ trade taken place in the labor camps in China's provinces, cities and municipalities that imprison Falun Gong practitioners? Are the victims of organ harvests mostly those practitioners who refuse to give the police their names or those who were imprisoned in forced labor camps?

Ms. Wang: I have been thinking about this question since I recalled the secret checkup on the condition of my organs. The Chinese communist regime not only harvests organs from those Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to give their names or who were kidnapped, but also practitioners like me. I have a husband and siblings. They all know I was imprisoned and knew the location of Wanjia Forced Labor Camp. They even knew that I have family members outside of China. But when I was dying, the communist regime was preparing to remove my organs for sale! Bases my case, I believe the organ trade from living human beings must be well known in China. At least such a beastly action must be an open secret within China's "610 Office!"

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Doctors in China Working Overtime on Organ Transplants

2006-04-14T02:17:00.000-07:00

taken from epochtimes

Audio Recordings of Phone Interviews with Medical Doctors in China: A Surge of Human Organs from Living Donors by May 1 and Doctors Work Overtime for Organ Transplant Operations

By Tang Mei

Sound of Hope Radio Station

Apr 14, 2006

A group of four Falun Gong practitioners re-enact the organ harvest in Sujiatun Extermination Camp at a rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, 3-06-2006. (Central News Agency)

Clearwisdom.net issued an urgent announcement on April 6, 2006 in which it says, "Falun Gong practitioners in underground concentration camps, including Sujiatun Camp, have been secretly relocated and are subject to slaughter at any time. Meanwhile some hospitals in China have suddenly increased the number of transplant operations. Apparently a massacre with the purpose of exterminating all witnesses of such extermination camps is taking place right now in China."

Reporters from Sound of Hope Radio made phone calls to major hospitals in China with a human organ transplant department in order to assess the current situation. Most of the medical doctors that answered the phone gave the same guarantee --- there will be an unusually large number of organ donors before May 1. After that date, the chance for a donor will become much smaller.

[ Audio report, including interviews with doctors (in Chinese) ]

I made phone calls to organ transplant centers in Hubei Province, Shanghai, Liaoning Province, Beijing, Shanxi Province and many other regions and got about the same answer from medical doctors (MD) --- grasp the opportunity right now.

Doctor A: April. We should have a lot of organs before the end of April. We are getting a larger and larger supply of organs, but you have to grasp the opportunity. Do you know what I mean? After this period of time, the supply will become very slim. After the end of April, there will be a period we will have nothing. We just won't have any supply of organs. If you don't have an organ transplant now while there is a supply, you are leading yourself to a dead end when the supply disappears.

Doctor B: You will have to get it done by May 1. This week and next week. After May 1, we will have very few organs.

Doctor C: If you want to come have an organ transplant, you must try to come before May.

Doctor D: All of our donors are in their 20's and 30's. They are very healthy. We guarantee livers and kidneys from living human beings. We can provide a whole liver. For some blood type, we can find matching donors right away.

Doctor E: Normally they are in their 20's and 30's. I can guarantee they are very healthy and the organs are fresh.

Reporter: Can I get a whole liver?

Doctor E: A whole liver. A whole liver.

Reporter: I heard some of the donors are young and healthy people in their 20's and 30's.

Doctor F: Yes. That's right.

Doctor G: We should be able to find an organ (with HLA tissue match) from a donor of AB blood type. In fact, we should be able to find one very quickly.

Reporter: Do you mean kidneys from living people?

Doctor H: Yes. We also supply livers from living people.

Reporter: Livers from living people?

Doctor H: Yes! Yes!

Reporter: I heard you can supply organs from young, healthy people in their 20's and 30's?

Doctor I: Yes! Yes!

Reporter: I heard they will be harvested from living human beings.

Doctor I: Yes! Yes! Yes!

Reporter: Some labor camps imprison Falun Gong practitioners and then harvest their organs when they are alive?

Doctor I: [Sneering] Right.

The number of patients at the organ transplant centers in China suddenly surged. Major hospitals in China are now working overtime for organ transplant operations.

Doctor J: There are 30 patients right now waiting in line for organ transplant operations.

Reporter: Are you all working overtime for organ transplant operations?

Doctor K: Yes. Yes. Yes. We have several organ transplant teams here working around the clock. We have a total of four teams that can perform organ transplants.

Reporter: Are you doing a lot of organ transplants lately?

Doctor L: Well…that's that.

Several hospitals admitted that they started to do organ transplants since the end of 2000 and that they have performed about 100 ~200 organ transplant operations each year.

Doctor M: We started organ transplants at the end of 2000.

Doctor N: It has been five years since we started organ transplant surgeries.

According to the official statistics of the Chinese Communist regime, there were only 78 liver transplant surgeries in China in eight years between 1991 and 1998. Since the Chinese Communist regime started to suppress Falun Gong in 1999, the number of liver transplants doubled and tripled in number. China has become the country with the largest number of liver transplants in the world. The number of liver transplants in China in 1999, 2000 and 2001 was 118, 254 and 486, respectively. In 2002, the number increased to 996. In 2003, the number of liver transplants in China jumped to over 3000. The statistics clearly show that the number of human organ donors suddenly has increased rapidly since 1999. We are using liver transplant as an example because each human being has only one liver. A human being will not survive once his liver is removed.

Doctor O: In China, we get our supply of human organs from the same place. How do I explain it to you? Only we doctors know where the organs are from.

Since Sujiatun Concentration Camp was exposed to the world, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG)immediately started an investigation all over China. Their investigation revealed that there are at least eight provinces and cities in China that harvest internal organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, including Henan Province, Shandong Province, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning Province and Hubei Province. Employees and surgeons in hospitals of these areas guaranteed the investigators they could supply Falun Gong practitioners' internal organs.

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Conversation with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: Responding to Live Organ Harvesting in China

2006-04-12T23:07:00.000-07:00

taken from epochtimes

Epoch Times Staff

Apr 11, 2006

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (rohrabacher.house.gov)

Editor's note: The Epoch Times had the opportunity recently to sit down with U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and to discuss the recent news about organs being harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners in China's labor camps. Here is a transcript of Congressman Rohrbacher's remarks.

This case can be investigated either inside or outside, and the truth made known to the American people and the people of the world. This is gruesome and clearly beyond the moral standards of almost every country that I know. It's time for the civilized world to say "no" to the monsters that are tearing apart people in China and enriching themselves from others' bodies.

We, as legislators, as statesmen and Americans, must not also become complicit in these crimes by keeping silent. History cares not whether we have inked another trade deal or helped sell another Boeing 747, but history will judge us if we choose to look the other way when faced with truly indescribable human suffering on this scale.

"We have a responsibility to have our President express America's strong wish to have a full investigation of these charges."

We have a responsibility to have our President express America's strong wish to have a full investigation of these charges and demand an explanation from Chinese leader Hu Jintao during his upcoming visit and an agreement to allow on-site third-party investigations. I think you will agree this is the least we can do.

On the website for just one transplant center, the Oriental Organ Transplantation Center in Tianjin (www.ootc.net), we could see a graph of their "achievement" shows the number of procedures growing by leaps and bounds after 1999, the year the persecution of Falun Gong officially began.

This may be the grisly reason why there is no waiting list for human organs in PRC.

This kind of moral complicity required for the non-consensual removal and sale of human organs is certainly unique, which is an issue that we cannot ignore.

There are so many people who think of China only as a good place to do business and make money, but they don't want to recognize those people running China who are involved in monstrous crimes that no civilized person would associate with. Now we ignore so many bad things that they have done, the Chinese Communists expect us to ignore this as well. That doesn't mean the rest of our country has forgotten these values.

"History cares not whether we have inked another trade deal or helped sell another Boeing 747."

I believe that when a country doesn't stand for certain moral principles and closes its eyes to oppression, in the end that decision comes back to hurt the country who closes its eyes and chooses not to recognize evil. In that case, China again, the Chinese Communist country is demonstrating evil that deserves condemnation by the entire civilized world.

I think it's important to the elected people in the United States to speak loudly on behalf of the entire American people to let those suffering in China and across the world know that we are on their side. We are on the side of those people who are being oppressed, not on the side of the brutal dictator who controls them, even though a lot of American businessmen are making money in china.

Many people should go to China, but they should talk to the people who are being oppressed rather than spending their time with the oppressor. Rather than spending their time with the torturer, they should spend time with people being tortured.

I think eventually the American people will reach an understanding of what's going on in China and there will be a backlash against the Chinese Communist leadership from the United States. Hopefully we then offer much more support to those people like Falun Gong in China who asked only to be able to live their lives in Freedom.

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Former CCP Secretary Calls On International Society to Investigate Chinese Labor Camps

2006-04-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

taken from epochtimes

By Xin Fei

Epoch Times Staff

Apr 12, 2006

Mr. Lin Mu, former secretary of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang (The Epoch Times)

Since the practice of live organ extractions from Falun Gong practitioners at Sujiatun was exposed, witnesses to the underground concentration camp and its activities were all secretly transferred. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s authorities maintained their silence for three weeks, it proceeded to lie and declared that it would allow foreign media to investigate the case. This was widely accepted as evidence of fact that the Chinese communist regime who denies all confesses all, having destroyed all traces of leads regarding Sujiatun and other such camps.

In an interview with The Epoch Times , Mr. Lin Mu, the former secretary to former General Secretary of the CCP Hu Yaobang, called on the international society to act in unison to stop the CCP's cruel crimes, and he called for society and the United Nation's Human Rights Council to investigate all labor camps in China, and thoroughly investigate the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and political dissidents, including the practice of live organ extractions. The following comments are compiled from the interview.

Inhuman Live Organ Extraction

"The CCP's criminal activities of live harvesting of human organs from Falun Gong practitioners not only violates Public International Law but also violates the laws of China. Although the CCP established so-called legislation recently, it is unlikely to be carried out."

"Etiquette has been considered very important in China since ancient times. Chinese people hold strong traditional beliefs such as preserve the human body after their relative dies, bury the dead, even relative's body and hair cannot be damaged."

"According to traditional Chinese people's notions, the CCP's criminal act of live organ extraction is extremely brutal and inhuman."

Chinese Labor Camps are the Most Evil Place

"Chinese labor camps are the darkest corner and most evil places in China where tortures are widespread. I heard many things about Falun Gong practitioners and political dissidents being tortured in labor camps. Many people coming out of those places experienced different forms of tortures."

"I have many young friends who are witnesses. For example, Wang Jinbo, who was released last year after serving full term of imprisonment, had been tortured many times in prison; Chen Longde from Hangzhou, the capitol of Zhejiang Province, was beaten with electric shock batons and is now completely disabled. Ma Xiaoming and Zhao Changqing from Xi'an City all encountered torture and abuse…"

The CCP Covers Up Its Labor Camp Crimes

"Even though many people have come out and disclosed the torture and persecution they suffered at the labor camps, they have no way of suing the criminals because they cannot find witnesses nor provide evidence. They know that everyone who was at the scene, including public security officials, the camp administrative personnel, will never testify."

"There are a few kind-hearted public security and prison personnel who have told us about the torture and mistreatment that often takes place, but they will not testify because they are afraid of risks, if they were witnesses in a trial."

"Moreover, the labor camps use any means to cover up their crimes, such as frequently organizing criminals to mistreat the political dissents."

Appeal to International Society for Investigations

"Whereas China's labor camps are widespread and torture is prevalent, especially since the crime of removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners has been exposed;"

"Whereas the CCP disregards laws, the evils of labor camps are unable to be resolved through legal proceedings in China;"

"We appeal to the international society and the United Nations Human Rights Council to carry out a comprehensive and independent investigation. We strongly urge the CCP to open all labor camps in China for the international society to investigate."

"We appeal to United Nation's authoritative councils to investigate the truth, break all obstacles, crush the CCP's obstruction and blockade, and make universal investigations of China's labor camps, prisons, detainment centers, 6-10 Office and related spying networks and other illegal organizations.

"Regardless of the result and degree of achievement, we appeal to the international society and persons from all walks of life to call out for justice in unison, "Only a large-scale, in-depth and comprehensive independent investigation will be effective and significant.

"We will continue our appeal of stopping these state-sponsored crimes against humanity in China."

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The Epoch Times Responds to Communist Regime's Denials

2006-04-12T23:01:00.000-07:00

Organ harvesting from living prisoners continues in China's labor camps

taken from epochtimes

The Epoch Times

Apr 12, 2006

In a press conference yesterday in Beijing, Zhang Yuqin, the deputy director of the Liaoning Thrombosis Treatment Center, claimed that his hospital is considering suing The Epoch Times. Tipped off by three brave individuals who risked their lives in order to tell the truth, we have reported the harvesting of the organs from thousands of living Falun Gong practitioners at his hospital and associated hospitals in the Sujiatun district of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.

Subsequent investigations have corroborated the statements of these witnesses.

We first reported this horror on March 9. More than a month later the Chinese Communist regime chose to respond. Why the wait? We have reports from Sujiatun that the time was spent executing or shipping out the Falun Gong practitioners still held there and creating a cover-up.

If the media travel to Sujiatun, they will find a Potemkin Village, ready for inspection.

The Chinese Health Ministry lied about SARS. The Chinese Communist regime still claims no one was killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre. Now the Chinese regime has decided to lie about the organ harvesting factories it has set up around China.

We stand by our original stories and are eager to see a full, independent investigation into the organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners that is continuing to take place in labor camps and prisons throughout China.

Such an investigation could begin by looking at the role played by the China International Transplantation Network Assistance Center (CITNAC) based in Shenyang City.

This Center's website, which mysteriously stopped working right after the Sujiatun story first broke, advertised in five languages that a liver transplant might be available within one month, and a kidney transplant might be available within one week. The maximum times for such transplants were said to be, respectively, two months and one month. Outside China, individuals often have to wait years for a matching kidney or liver to come available.

This website also claimed that it does not use organs from those who are brain dead "because the state of the organ may not be good."

Where could such organs come from whose quality is better than those removed from the brain dead?

The organs don't come from destitute individuals trying to sell an organ. An article in the China Business Daily quotes Dr. Wu Gang, an associate professor in the Organ Transplant Department of a Shenyang City hospital as saying, "The kidney supply in Shenyang is sufficient. Those kidney ads [from individuals trying to sell their own kidney] almost have no market."

Perhaps Mr. Zhang can also explain the statistics regarding liver transplants published by the "Health Newspaper," a periodical affiliated with the Ministry of Health.

From 1991-1998, 78 liver transplants were performed in all of China. In 1999 the persecution of Falun Gong began, and in that same year the number of liver transplants skyrocketed, to 116 in that year alone—more than the total for the previous seven years combined. Each succeeding year the numbers continued to climb, to 254 in 2000, and 486 in 2001. By 2003 the number in one year totaled 3,000.

Where did this flood of healthy organs come from? China has almost no voluntary donations of organs.

We are confident—although deeply saddened—as to the answer to this question: this extraordinary increase in healthy livers came from Falun Gong practitioners who were killed in the act of harvesting their organs.

The lies told in Beijing yesterday were occasioned by the visit to Washington, D.C. next week by Hu Jintao, China's paramount leader. We trust the free press of this country will demand of Mr. Hu a full account of the organ harvesting being done in China.

The Epoch Times calls on our colleagues in the media to join us in investigating these atrocities. Such an investigation is demanded by the facts, demanded by our duty as journalists, and demanded by our humanity.

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Informant Tells of Other Chinese Concentration Camps

2006-03-30T21:31:00.000-08:00

When I read this I want to cry. There's hell on earth right now, and it's in all of those lawless and authoritarian countries on earth. Africa, laos, burma, china. Why doesn't the mass media print this news? Is it because people don't really care generally? Or is it we are being manipulated by unknown forces? Read on and find out why I wanted to cry.

Taken from epochtimes

Sujiatun Is Merely One of 36 Concentration Camps for Falun Gong in China

By an individual who identifies himself as a veteran military doctor

Special to The Epoch Times

Mar 30, 2006

Falun Gong practitioners reenact an scene of organ-harvesting in parade in New York City (The Epoch Times)

[Editors' Note: Editors' Note: This report is a compilation of information provided by an individual who identifies himself as a veteran military doctor in Shenyang Military Zone in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China. The Epoch Times has only added headings. The Epoch Times encourages more people to give us inside information about Sujiatun Concentration Camp or other similar camps imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners. The Epoch Times will be discreet and careful about your personal safety.]

I am a veteran military doctor in the logistics service in the army in Shenyang military zone. For safety's sake, I will not disclose my identity for now. The reports from outside China about Sujiatun Concentration Camp imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners are true although some of the details are incorrect. The so-called underground Sujiatun Concentration Camp does exist. Organ harvesting is routine there. It is also a common practice to cremate dead or even living Falun Gong practitioners.

Ashes Given to Families Came from Animals or Other Bodies in the Crematorium

As many state regulations have stipulated, the top level of each provincial government has the authority to establish "recycling organizations" to process felons in the military zone under its jurisdiction. This practice is warranted by a legal document that the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Committee established as early as 1962. This practice has never stopped to this day. According the regulations in the document, death penalty prisoners and felons may be processed according to the development needs of the state or of socialism. During the Great Cultural Revolution, the most extreme way to process these prisoners was to use their bodies for food. The second most extreme way was to use them as slave labor for engineering or production work.

After a 1984 amendment, it became legal to harvest organs from felons. The police and judicial departments perform organ harvests on living prisoners before cremating their bodies. Sometimes, they will injure the prisoners in a show execution before they perform organ harvests on the injured prisoners. They then cremate their bodies.

Since 1992, such a practice has become public. Due to the development of many related businesses, human bodies have become profitable raw materials. Living human beings, as well as dead bodies, have become industrial raw materials.

Many crematoriums in China do not actually cremate the bodies after they receive them. Instead, these bodies are transferred elsewhere through secret tunnels. In many cases, the ashes given to the families of executed prisoners came from animals or from other people's bodies. Some of the bodies given to the families were even ancient Chinese people or victims of WWII. The actual bodies are sold at high prices to many different types of state-owned factories as raw materials for different products via many different channels. Nearly all the large crematoriums in China are engaged in such underground businesses.

The Hospital in Sujiatun is Only One of 36 Similar Concentration Camps All Over China

The Chinese Communist Party has openly declared Falun Gong to be the "class enemies", turning Falun Gong practitioners into the target of its most severe suppression. In other words, the Chinese Communist Party has declared Falun Gong practitioners to be felons. The so-called hospitals in Sujiatun are but one of 36 similar concentration camps all over China. At present, the majority of detained Falun Gong practitioners are in prisons, forced labor camps and detention centers. They are transferred elsewhere on a large scale only when special occasions call for it. Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces imprison the largest number of Falun Gong practitioners. The concentration camp in Jiutai Area, Jilin Province is the 5th largest camp imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners in China. This camp alone detains over 14,000 Falun Gong practitioners.

Jilin Concentration Camp, Codenamed 672-S, Imprisons over 120,000 People

Based on information I have access to, the largest concentration camp is in Jilin Province. The concentration camp, codenamed 672-S, imprisons over 120,000 people. A large number of Falun Gong practitioners, felons and prisoners of conscience from all over China are there, but I do not know its address.

More Than 10,000 People Detained in Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Early 2005

In the so-called underground concentration camp of the Sujiatun District Hospital, there were indeed over 10,000 people kept there in early 2005, but at the present time, the number of detainees there is maintained at 600-750. Many detainees have been transferred to other concentration camps.

5000 People can Be Trandferred in24 hours By Covert Rail Routes

It takes no more than a day to transfer 5,000 people in a closed freight train on a special route. I have witnessed a specially dispatched freight train transferring over 7,000 people in one trip from Tianjin to the Jilin area. It ran at night, guarded by the Chinese army. Everyone on the train was handcuffed to specially designed handrails on top of the ceiling like rotisserie chickens.

You Won't Find Any Evidence Even If You Enter Sujiatun to Investigate

It is useless to enter Sujiatun trying to investigate the concentration camp because it is easy to transfer several thousand people.

CCP's Top Ranks Name Falun Gong Practitioners "Class Enemies," Useful Only To Generate Income

One must understand that based on the latest decisions by the Chinese Communist Party's top level: The Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee agreed to treat Falun Gong practitioners as "class enemies " and to handle them in any economically beneficial manner without having to report to higher authorities. In other words, Falun Gong practitioners, like many actual felons in China, are no longer regarded as human beings, but as raw materials for commercial products. They have become commodities.

This is as much as I can tell you.

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Several Thousand Police Suppress Chinese Villagers

2006-03-29T23:03:00.000-08:00

taken from epochtimes

By Gu Qinger

Epoch Times Staff

Mar 28, 2006

At 8 a.m. on March 22, 2006, local officials led several thousand armed police into Baijiawang Village in Zhejiang Province, China to destroy the villagers' crops and forcibly confiscate their land. Local residents confronted the police, leading to several hours of violent conflict.

A local resident said, "[The police] parked a lot of vehicles along Jiaojiang Bridge. We did not know exactly how many there were. The armed forces wore helmets and bulletproof vests; they beat us with batons. All we could do was throw rocks at them from afar." More than ten villagers were injured during the altercation. Of these, five were seriously injured and had to be hospitalized. Three people, Zheng Chongri, Wang Xiangde and Wang Pinbao, were arrested.

The bloody clash occurred because the government planned to confiscate over 300 mu (50 acres) of farmland to sell it to land developers below market value. When this proposal was vetoed by local residents, District Director Chen Xiangrong led several thousand armed police to suppress the villagers. Baijiawang Village, in the Jiaojiang District of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, is a village of 3,000 residents.

Local residents had heard the day before that officials were sending troops to subdue them. Some elderly villagers woke up early the next day to examine the situation and saw that a large group of people was indeed heading their way. The villagers cooperated and built roadblocks to prevent the police from entering the village. A local resident explained, "Except for our local officials, fully 99 percent of us [villagers] do not want to sell our land. The same sort of confrontation also occurred last year. The troops entered our village at three or four o'clock in the morning and were prepared to fill our paddy and orange fields with stones. We fought for our rights successfully, that time."

Another villager said, "When we learned of the government's plan to suppress us on March 22, all residents, young and old, took the initiative to prevent the police from entering our village. An intense battle ensued which led to casualties on both sides. The police beat us with batons and caused a serious injury to one villager's head. His condition has stabilized after surgery. Three elderly residents, all over the age of 60, were arrested for attempting to prevent the police from hitting people."

It was learned that a few government officials and village heads hold the right of land acquisition at Baijiawang. Only the village heads know the details; the farmers in the village know nothing. The farmers do not want their land to be seized, not only because the compensation for the land seizure is a mere pittance, but because this land is what they live on. For those who don't know how to do business, their small plots of land are all they have to sustain themselves and their families.

Farmers for the village have gone to Beijing twice to appeal but didn't receive any resolution. On the day before the conflict occurred, some farmers went to Beijing to appeal the inadequate compensation offered for farmland forcibly taken from them. No one imagined that this conflict could occur. The farmer said, "The land in nearby Jianshe Village was forcibly seized. Those arrested there have not been released yet. We can only guard our own land. There are no other ways. Only the ordinary farmers are forced to make sacrifices."

Mr. Yan Zhengxue, a famous artist who resides in Taizhou, also confirmed that this bloody conflict occurred in Taizhou as had been described.

When contacted by this reporter, the Police Department of Jiaojiang District, responded, "As to this matter, I don't know the details. The leaders are at meetings."

The reporter then called the Jiaojiang government offices. One government official told the reporter, "Please inquire at our Foreign Affairs Office Department of Propaganda if you have detailed questions." When further asked, "Was there a bloody conflict?" The official answered, "They didn't fully understand the situation, so the report was unauthentic. We are in a coastal open city. These sorts of things cannot occur here."

The reporter asked in return, "According to you, the incident didn't occur?" The official said, "It is not that this conflict didn't occur. It was not a bloody conflict. How can you call it a bloody conflict? This group of people (referring to the farmers) has a very strong clan bond."

The reporter asked further, "At the time (of the conflict), the government ordered eight large coaches of armed police, all dressed in uniforms with iron helmets to enter the village. Were any farmers seriously injured?" The official responded, "The aim was to bring development there. This is an underdeveloped area. The Office of Foreign Affairs will provide you with the details, all right?"

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A Personal Experience in Organ Extraction from a Live Prisoner

2006-03-24T00:58:00.000-08:00

this person witness a live prisoner having organs ie cornea, kidney, scrotum harvested while the person was injured. The communist party has created a unjust and fearful society in china with fear and supression. The public executions were meants to destroy the moral standards of the chinese society so they can be supressed.

taken from epochtimes

Epoch Times Staff

Mar 23, 2006

The Orient Organ Transplant Center, a medical center in mainland China that performs a large number of organ transplants.(OOTC.net)

I was once a graduate student at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University,　the largest hospital in Heilongjiang Province, which is well known for its heart transplants in China and which also offers kidney and liver transplants.

Like many other hospitals in China, the organs for the transplants in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University are basically from prisoners. Doctors in the department and my classmates all knew this.

One day a patient in our department needed an organ transplant, we were notified by the hospital's medical administration department that a "condemned criminal" with a matching organ would be available the next day. So, led by our teacher, I personally went through an experience that would be hard to forget for the rest of my life.

I used to think that it is not wrong to take organs from a "deserved criminal" to save a life. However my experience that day made me realize the truth behind organ transplants in China and what it really means. One important factor is that when the organ was taken from the prisoner, he was still alive!

The organ extraction and the execution of the prisoner were all conducted in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University. On that day, by the time we got there, officials from the medical administration department and many doctors from other departments, including the ophthalmology department, the general surgery department, the urological department and the department of orthopedics were already there. They seemed to be carefree and quite used to what was going to happen. They were all waiting for the arrival of the "prisoner."

At about 9 to 10 a.m., a few police vehicles drove up. We all went into the inner room where the organ extraction was to take place. The prisoner was executed right in the outer room. Out of curiosity, I peeked through the window separating the two rooms. The prisoner was quite young. Without any special procedure, the prisoner knelt in front of a sand heap piled at a corner of the room, and an equally young police officer took out a gun and shot him in the head.

After hearing the gun shot, the doctors in the inner room rushed outside as if they'd heard a signal and carried the prisoner into the inner room. Others wearing disposable surgery clothes began to bustle about. We were the first to take organs, but I was shocked to discover that during our operation, the prisoner was still alive. The gunshot had not quite hit his brainstem.

During the procedure of the organ extraction, a whistling sound came from his throat! My blood ran cold, but those "doctors" taking the organ turned a deaf ear to it. I cannot express how I felt in words! Doctors are supposed to cure diseases and save people. The medical profession is supposed to be lofty and the morality of doctors is supposed to be noble, but they were actually killing a person in the name of saving another. In the meantime, the police officers, who are supposed to serve the people, were smoking cigarettes outside the room and happily chatting away with the officials from the administrative department.

My brain went numb. The needed organ was taken quickly and skillfully. A group of "doctors" left satisfactorily; then doctors from other departments began to pile on. They busied themselves on the patient's eyes, belly, scrotum, hip joint and so on.

The wheezing sound from the patient's throat gradually faded. In an instant, all the doctors disappeared from the room with only the prisoner's broken body and a person to carry the body remaining. The body was going to be transferred to the crematorium to be cremated immediately. His relatives knew nothing about this whole procedure. I heard that they would be notified only after all was over.

Reading about the exceedingly horrible persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Sujiatun, Shenyang City recently and associating it with my own experience, I keenly realized that in a communist society, the Communist Party has already converted people into its tools and murderers.

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Shocking TORTURE Testimonies from china

2006-03-22T21:29:00.000-08:00

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WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF TORTURE.

We Must Immediately Stop the Brutality That Suffocates Our Nation's Conscience and Morality

Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, and all other conscientious fellow Chinese citizens:

I, Gao Zhisheng, send you my greetings from Changchun City. I would first like to convey my deepest mourning for the innocent fellow Chinese citizens killed by the Guangdong government, and my condolences and support for the family members of the victims. [1] At the same time, I would like to express my strongest protest against the brutality of slaughtering our kind countrymen. I strongly urge that the highest authorities follow the basic principles recognized by civil societies, punish the murderers and those responsible for these acts, and comfort and compensate the families of the victims.

Winter in Changchun is extremely cold. Although in "hiding" in a room that doesn't have water most of the time, my blood is boiling hot. The reason isn't because I am again writing an open letter to Hu and Wen. Instead, simply being able to work for the future of one of the greatest peoples in the world is enough to make any ordinary citizen's blood boil.

On October 18, also with red-hot enthusiasm, I wrote an open letter to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, two fellow countrymen of mine, urgently calling on their government to "Stop Persecuting Believers in Freedom and Mend Your Ties with the Chinese People." The next day, I received blatant threats over the phone at home. Starting the third day, at least 10 cars and 20 plainclothes police officers began circling, monitoring, and following my entire family every day, 24 hours a day. The 15th day after I wrote the letter, the Beijing Judicial Bureau illegally closed the law firm I ran. It is very regrettable how our country treats a citizen who openly makes suggestions.

Another strong reaction prompted by the open letter was that Falun Gong believers from various parts of China who have been persecuted have written me and invited me to their areas to learn more about their true situation. Quite a few of these letters were from the cities of Changchun and Dalian. Beginning on November 29, I spent almost 24 hours a day continuously traveling between Jinan City, Shandong province; Dalian and Fuxin cities, Liaoning province; and Changchun City, Jilin province to conduct another round of investigations. Unlike my usual practice of traveling solo, I was honored to be accompanied by Professor Jiao Guobiao. [2]

Meanwhile, flocks of plainclothes police were still hovering around my home night and day, creating an atmosphere of terror and severely suppressing my entire family. On November 29, I escaped being followed and encircled by more than 20 plainclothes police and spent 15 days investigating the truth in my own way. I especially would like to say here that we try our best to tell the truth of how this nation is being continually and brutally persecuted, especially at this time. This is also to remind our entire nation of the severity and urgency of the problems we are facing. It is time for our nation and each and every one of us to seriously face our problems. Any excuse or delay by any means is committing a crime against our entire nation!

In this letter, I will not avoid any of the real problems I saw, even if this means I may be immediately arrested when this letter is publicized. The 15 days of investigation again showed me the painful truth. The 6-10 Office is—or at least can be called—a gang that exists within the political power of the nation, yet is higher than the political power. It is a gang that can control and regulate all political resources. Although it is an organization that exists outside of the Constitution and the regulations of the country's power structure, the 6-10 Office is using many powers that are only supposed to be used by agencies of the national government, and even many powers that are beyond those of agencies of the national government. It uses powers that don't belong and have never belonged to the nation since the beginning of mankind's political civilization on this earth.

We can see that the power symbolized by the number 6-10 continues to "interface" with the public through ways such as killing a person's physical body and spirit, shackles, chains, electric shock tortures, and "tiger benches." " [3] The nature of this power has become that of a criminal gang. It continues to torture our mothers, sisters, children, and our entire nation. Mr. Hu and Mr. Wen, as members of our nation in special positions at this time, and especially as individuals who are perceived by the majority of the public as being conscientious, you should face everything together with all of us.

At this moment, with a trembling heart and a trembling pen, I am writing down the tragic experiences of those who have been persecuted in the last six years. Among the true accounts of unbelievable brutality, among the records of the government's inhuman torture of its own people, the immoral acts that shocked my soul the most were the lewd yet routine practice of attacking women's genitals by 6-10 Office staff and the police. Almost every woman's genitals and breasts or every man's genitals have been sexually assaulted during the persecution in a most vulgar fashion. Almost all who have been persecuted, be they male or female, were first stripped naked before any torture. No language or words could describe or re-create our government's vulgarity and immorality in this respect. Who with a warm body could afford to stay silent when faced with such truths?

At 4:20 p.m. on October 28, 2005, Ms. Wang Shouhui (mother) and Mr. Liu Boyang (son) from Changchun City were followed by 6-10 Office staff and were illegally arrested. The two were brutally tortured by the police. At about 8 p.m., 28-year-old Liu Boyang died from the torture. About 10 days later, his mother was also tortured to death. The bodies of the unfortunate duo are still in the hands of the 6-10 Office officials. It took the 6-10 officials three days to inform Liu's father of his death, while Ms. Wang's time of death remains unclear. Liu's father looked for a lawyer in his city, but no one dared to accept his case. The elderly man said, "In a society like this, it is harder to live than to die. Living brings more pain. After I take care of their burials, I'll follow them and leave, too."

Ms. Wang Shouhui, her husband, and her son (Liu Boyang) began practicing Falun Gong in 1995. Since the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, they were continually harassed by police from the Zhengyang Police Station of Luuyuan District and officials from the Zhengyang Neighborhood Administration Office. Ms. Wang was illegally detained in October 1999 and sent to the Heizuizi Labor Camp in February 2000. At the labor camp, she was tortured with an electric baton eight times. She was also forced to work during the day. For five days and nights, she was prohibited from sleeping and was required to remain standing. She was tortured using a "death bed" [4] several times. The most serious time, she was beaten with two electric batons for over one hour while tied to the "death bed." She did not have even one part of her body and face intact. She was only released after the torture put her life in danger.

On April 11, 2002, Ms. Wang was walking down the street when she was again abducted by the police from Zhengyang Police Station of Luuyuan District. She was blindfolded by the police from the First Division of the Changchun Public Security Bureau and was taken to a secret torture room in Jingyueshan, Changchun. She was tortured on the tiger bench for two days and one night, during which time she was also beaten with two electric batons on the breasts. Three men used their fists to punch her face, chest, and back. As a result, Ms. Wang's left cheekbone was fractured and she vomited a great amount of blood. Later, her lungs were infected. While at the police hospital, Ms. Wang's four limbs were confined when she received infusions. She was prohibited from using the restroom. Instead, the hospital forcefully inserted a tube into her bladder, but did not give her care. She could not move for five days and five nights. Subsequently, her bladder was permanently damaged and she could no longer control her bladder.

On June 27, 2002, Ms. Wang and her family were again abducted to the Zhengyang Police Station by the Political and Security Division of the Luuyuan District Police Department. Ms. Wang was tied into the fetal position for an entire evening. Later, when she was illegally detained at the No. 3 Detention Center in Changchun City, the guards locked her handcuffs to her ankle shackles for 18 days and force-fed her for a month. She was then sent to the provincial police hospital, where her limbs were confined and she was force-fed for over 30 days. She wasn't released until her life was in danger. At the same time, several police from Zhengyang Police Station brutally tortured, beat, and kicked Liu Boyang. They also slapped his face with leather shoes, tied him with a rope, put a plastic bag over his head, tied his arms behind his back, and hung him from the ceiling using handcuffs. When Liu was hanging in the air, they shook his feet or dragged his feet down. Mr. Yuan Dachuan, a police officer conducting the torture, said shamelessly, "I have killed quite a few Falun Gong practitioners with torture. I don't have to bear any responsibility if I beat you to death." Every time they were tortured, the mother and son could hear each other's screams, which shook heaven and earth, ghosts and spirits!

On October 29, 2002, Liu Boyang was sent to two years of forced labor at Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun City. In December, the police forced him to sit on cold cement floors all day long and prohibited him from sleeping at night. During the day, he was forced to attend brainwashing classes. In June 2004, when his term was over, the labor camp refused to release him and found some excuse to add 47 days to his term. Liu was a graduate of a medical university. He was a good person, and was kind to children and respectful to the elderly. Every year he was a model worker at the hospital. A woman surnamed Wang told me the above experiences of Ms. Wang and Mr. Liu so rapidly she spoke almost in one breath.

Sun Shuxiang, a 48-year-old Changchun resident, was illegally arrested nine times in six years. Below are some of the experiences she described during her illegal sentence in labor camps:

"One day in the latter part of 2001, the policeman Li Zhenping from the eighth section of Xingye Street Police Station came to my home with another man. They came to persuade my husband to divorce me. I said, "No." Li kept hitting my face until it was swollen. My eyes started to bleed, and I suddenly could not see anything. He asked again if I agreed to the divorce, and said if not he would send me back (to the labor camp). Under their constant terror, my husband divorced me. My good family was thus broken apart by the government. Now, I am still in exile.

"In July of 2002, I was in my father's home. A plainclothes policeman suddenly broke into the house and asked if I was Sun Shuxiang. Before I answered him, I was kidnapped. The next day, police from the first section of Changchun Public Security Bureau put me in a car and drove me on a bumpy road for about two hours. Two policemen took me to a dark and terrifying basement, and took off the blindfold. Eight or nine policemen all rushed into the room. On a table there were three electric batons of large, medium, and small sizes and a bundle of rope, and on the other side were three tiger benches. Two policemen forced me on a tiger bench, and placed my hands on the armrests that each had a handcuff attached to it. My hands were locked in place with the handcuffs. The armrests on the tiger bench had a row of different size holes to fit different wrist sizes. The police skillfully fixed an iron rod as thick as the thumb on the two armrests, pressing against my chest and abdomen area and making it impossible for me to move. One policeman pointed at the torture tools and said to me, 'Do you see that? If you cooperate, we can finish business in over an hour. Otherwise, we will have you taste all kinds of instruments. What happened to Liu Zhe and others [practitioners who were killed] ? Only a few can come out of here alive.'

"A seemingly polite policeman slapped my face twice, and asked me if I knew any fellow practitioners. I said no. He took an electric baton, stuck its two claws between my ribs, and started to shock me. He asked again for my fellow practitioners' phone numbers, and I said nothing. He then used the electric baton over my fingertips, while asking me which practitioners I knew. He used the electric baton on my arms and then my head, then to the other side of my body. After one round over my body, he slowly traced my body another round with the electric baton. They then changed into a higher voltage, fully charged electric baton, and started from my toes and went over my body. I still remained silent. They started with the toes of the other foot to go over my body from the other side. I was still silent. They then used the electric baton on my eyes. I felt like my eyes were going to pop out of the sockets, and I could not see anything. I still refused to tell anything, and they returned to electrify my ribs. The pain was unbearable. The electric baton moved to my chest, as they asked me with which practitioners I had remained in contact. The pain made it impossible for me to speak, and the familiar faces of practitioners appeared in front of me one by one. I had one thought: No matter what, I would not tell about any practitioners, since as soon as I told about anyone, that person would be arrested and tortured. The police stuck the electric baton inside my mouth. My mouth was all burnt and swollen, and blisters covered the outside. They said to me as they were shocking me, 'If you do not speak, we will pry open your mouth.' They again stuck the electric baton inside my mouth. After a day and a night's torture, I was just about to die…

"In the beginning of 2004, I stayed temporarily at Ms. Xing Guiling's home. One midnight I heard loud pounding on the door. The double door was quickly broken. In terror, I saw a bunch of police with iron hammers and guns, shouting, 'Do not move, otherwise you will be killed.' We were arrested and taken to the Luuyuan branch of the Public Security Bureau, and locked up in a small iron cage. I was tied onto a tiger bench. They started to beat Xing Guiling in front of me, using a leather belt to strangle her neck. She cried heart-wrenchingly. I saw Xing Guiling beaten down; when she was down, they kicked her. When she got up, they beat her down again. They beat and kicked her, asking her to reveal her contacts with other practitioners. They kept torturing her over and over. They took their leather belt and strangled her again, till she could not breathe. The police shouted, 'I will show you if you don't tell.' Xing Guiling was tortured with only one breath left, but she did not reveal a single practitioner's name. They then started to torture me. After three days and nights of torture, they sent us to the No. 3 Detention Center.

"On August 4, 2003, I was again arrested by the police. They took me to the Nanguan branch of the Public Security Bureau. A pockmarked policeman grabbed my hair and kept hitting my head on the wall. I was getting so dizzy. He then forced me to sit on a tiger bench and cuffed my hands tightly. Another policeman started to hit my arms, and my wrists began to bleed from being tightly caught by the handcuffs. They used iron rings to chain my ankles, and then stepped on the rings, making it tighter and tighter. My ankles were painful beyond endurance. They then used a plastic bag to cover my head, and tied it over my neck, suffocating me. When they saw that I was about to die, they took off the bag. After a while, they covered my head again, and took it off before I died. They did this three times and at the same time kept pressing the rings tighter into my ankles. It was so painful that I started to have a seizure. My ankles were broken and bleeding. I fainted. They used cold water to bring me back, and sent me to the No. 3 Detention Center. There, I refused to eat and drink, and went into a coma. After 27 days, I had just one breath left. They notified my family members to take me home."

Liu Shuqin, a 60-year-old lady from Changchun, was arrested and sent to labor camps five times in six years. This old lady calmly told us the barbarous torture she suffered:

"I was first arrested in February of 2000. The police violently hit and kicked us to the police car, which took us to the Balipu Detention Center. I was locked up for 15 days without any legal procedures. Altogether more than 10 of us were arrested, and all experienced unspeakable torture. After that, the Neighborhood Administration Office and the police continued to harass me.

"On December 31, 2000, I was arrested for the second time when I went to Beijing to appeal to the government. I held out a banner that said "Falun Dafa is Good," and the Tiananmen police hit my back violently with electric batons, forcing me onto a police car. Later I was thrown into a dungeon with walls covered with ice and frost. The police forced me to take off all my clothing, and ordered someone to shoot water on me from a big pipe. They left me to sleep on the bare floor naked, with nothing to cover my body. The toilet in the room stank so much and smelled so bad. Everyday, several policemen came to interrogate me. They did not allow me to sleep at night. After 38 days of interrogation, they did not get anything.

"On December 31, 2001, several practitioners and I hung banners outside to expose the lies of the government about Falun Gong. Someone reported us and we were arrested. The police from the 6-10 Office beat me violently without stopping. At midnight that day, I was sent to the No. 3 Detention Center. There, a policeman punched my eyes with his fists. My eyes became blurry and I could not see anything. They hit my head a few more times. Faced with their brutal behavior, I told them good and evil will be repaid. The police asked inmates to bring a heavy chain weighing 28 kg (approximately 61 lbs.) and put it on my ankles. I was detained for 22 days, during which I suffered tortures that were worse than death. Later on, the police took a lot of money from my family before they released me.

"On February 28, 2003, a few days after my release, a bunch of police from the Luuyuan branch of the Public Security Bureau stormed into my home again. A policeman named Yuan Dachuan went through our drawers and took away over 4,000 yuan (about $500) in cash without leaving any receipts. Another policeman pocketed a bottle of foreign perfume my child had brought me from overseas. When Yuan Dachuan was taking my money, I criticized his robbery. He punched me and handcuffed me. They did whatever they liked in my home and the house was all messed up. They abducted me to the torture chamber at the Luuyuan branch and tortured me on the tiger bench for two hours. They then tied me up with a thin rope, with my hands behind my back. The police tightened the rope on me. With my whole body tied up, I was pushed out of the torture chamber. Another group of people threw me into a car. They used my feather-filled coat to cover my head so tightly that I almost suffocated.

"After about 20 minutes, the car stopped, and we arrived at another torture chamber (later on I knew this was at the Chaoyang branch). The room was filled with torture instruments. As soon as we arrived there, they forced me onto the tiger bench, and about six policemen handcuffed me and chained my ankles, fixing a steel rod across my chest (on the tiger bench). A young policeman used a foot-long iron rod to hit my left hand, which was cuffed to the tiger bench. After a dozen strikes, my hand was swollen severely and it turned purple-black. They asked me to tell about other practitioners, and I said I would not say anything. At this time, more than 10 police cuffed my hands behind me. They kept pulling the handcuffs and the ankle chains, and pushing the iron rod against my chest. Stretched under such a strong force, I felt as if my tendons and bones were about to break; I could not breathe. The pain was so unbearable that I fainted a few times. When I fainted, the police poured cold water on me. After I came to, they continued to torture me. I was tortured like this for a day and night, fainting and waking up. As the handcuffs and ankle chains were pulled by the police, they kept piercing into my flesh. Blood was mixed with flesh over my wrists and ankles, making a large pool of blood on the floor. The police treated an old lady like me with such savage tortures. Every nerve and bone hurt beyond endurance in my arms, hands, feet and legs. My whole body was unable to move.

"One March 1, they sent me to the No. 3 Detention Center. They checked my heart and blood pressure—none functioned well; my legs could not walk. Even so, I was still sentenced for two years in the labor camp. In a coma, I was carried to the Heizuizi labor camp. I had to be carried to go to the bathroom. The policewoman Liu Lianying from the second team started to persecute me, saying that I was pretending not to be able to walk. Liu barbarously shocked me with an electric baton on my legs, chest, heart—all over my body. At the time, a criminal convict Yi Liwen (who had a good relationship with Liu) could not bear to see it; she took away the electric baton and said, 'Don't shock her anymore, look at what bad shape she is in.' Liu Lianying then stopped. Since I could not walk, the police often cursed me; they used all their conversion experts to try to "transform" me, and the police took turns brainwashing me.

"After a day's labor, they did not let me sleep, but conducted brainwashing in order to force me to sign this or that paper. I firmly refused. They tortured me like this for two months, and my blood pressure often reached over 200 and I suffered from serious heart disease. Seeing that I refused to be transformed, Jia Hongyan used prostitution convicts to torture me, monitoring me on a 24-hour basis at my side even during eating and sleeping. They forced me to transform, beating and cursing me almost every moment and every day. They did not allow me to speak; if I did they would curse me. Everyday, my body and heart were suffering in great pain. Over a year of persecution brought great harm to my body and mind. My body was numb, and my arms did not move well. I was diagnosed with brain infarction and atrophy. I was originally very healthy, but the one year's persecution had turned me into such a state. Just because I want to be a good person, I have endured such inhumane torture for such a long time."

With a slow and gentle voice, Zhang Zhikui calmly narrated his experience of being persecuted in Changchun City:

"After July 20, 1999 I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Because I clarified the truth of Falun Gong to residents in Beijing, I was arrested by the police in Beijing and transferred to the police of Changchun City's liaison office in Beijing. There, they tied my hands and feet together onto a wooden club and hung me between two tables by putting the two ends of the wooden club onto the two tables. I swung back and forth. Whenever the wooden club broke, I fell to the floor. As for other practitioners who were also arrested there, the police beat them with leather belts or hung them up. They beat my thighs with a white wood rod.

"Later on, all of us practitioners were sent back to Erdaohezi District Police Substation in Changchun City. At that time, there were 10 or more practitioners. After we arrived there, the head of the Political Protection Department lifted me up and forced me to take off my pants. At that time, there were males and females present. Then, the head of the Political Protection Department beat my head with a leather belt. My head became numb, there was ringing in my ears, and I almost lost consciousness. He asked for my name and the date I went to Beijing. I was barely conscious following the beating, so I couldn't remember anything. Nevertheless, he continued beating me. And then, he stamped on my feet with his leather shoes, grinding my toes with the heel of his leather shoes. He just observed the expression in my eyes while he was doing this to me. I endured the severe pain and began to sweat profusely. He left me then and began to beat up other practitioners. After I was sent to Tiebei Detention Center, the guards instigated the criminals there to strip me and beat me. The criminals kicked me hard, ramming me into the wall of the restroom. I could barely get up from the ground. Immediately two pots of cold water were poured onto my body. Again they kicked me hard. My arms and legs bled, and there was a big wound on one leg. One month later, I was released from there without any documents and without any legal procedures having been followed.

"At the end of November 1999, I went to China's Supreme Court in Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The officials of China's Supreme Court informed police and they arrested me there, sending me to the police of Zhaoyuan City's (in Shandong province) liaison office in Beijing. On my way back, they removed my belt and forced me to walk with my hands holding up my pants. They beat me as we walked. Upon my arrival at the liaison office, they again beat me severely with a strap, and they continued beating me for several hours during the night. The next day, they sent me back to Zhaoyuan City, Shandong province.

"Upon my arrival at Zhaoyuan City Detention Center, the police instigated the criminals there to beat me. The criminals there saw that I did my duties actively and positively. They were all moved by me and didn't beat me any longer. Eventually, they sent a mute criminal to beat me up. One day, the guard there ordered me to extend my head out through a small hole in the iron gate of my cell, and then he trampled my head with his feet, beating my head as well. The practitioners in other cells all shouted at him together, 'Do not beat people!'

"Afterwards, they sent my sister and me to Xinzhuang Township Police Station. Following July 20, 1999, my whole family was arrested. They detained my sister and me separately in small dark solitary confinement cells under the staircases. The solitary confinement cells were so short that we couldn't stand up straight inside them. They only allowed us to go to the restroom once every evening, and they locked us up like this for 10 days for each detainment. After that, they sent us back to the Zhaoyuan Detention Center and kept us there for a month. They tortured my sister and me like this back and forth for a total of six times. All these events made us feel that it is difficult either to live or die.

"On National Day in 2000, I went to the Culture Square in Changchun City to unfurl a banner and I was arrested. All the news media in China lied. They did not speak a truthful word for us. Therefore, we wanted to tell people the truth in this way. Police chief Liang and other policemen stripped my coat off and wrapped my head with it. They cuffed my hands from behind, dragged me down from upstairs, and then escorted me to a car. The car traveled for about two hours and I felt that it was far away from the town. After we arrived at the destination, I was escorted to a house where the cloth on my head was removed. I felt terrible. There was a tiger bench in the room. I knew we were on a mountain and I heard the wind swooshing. Police Chief Liang and other policemen stripped all my clothes off and they forced me onto the tiger bench. My hands were tied behind my back to the crabstick. They inserted an iron stick at my chest, my thighs and my legs respectively. Both ends of these sticks were fixed to the tiger bench so that my whole body was tightly locked onto the tiger bench and I could not move. My feet were put in iron hoops and immobilized. Then Liang took out a sharp knife one third of a meter long and rubbed it on his pants a couple of times. He threw the knife to the table and ferociously said to me: 'Zhang Zhikui, I want you to die here; today I'll torture you to death and dig a hole and bury you. Nobody will know or find you.' After saying that, Liang went outside. At least three policemen started to recharge the electric batons and another two policemen grasped my hands that were tied to the stick behind me, then they stretched my hands around my head from behind to front. I heard my bones cracking ceaselessly. This torture was repeated several times and the oppressive pain distressed me terribly. Later, an iron barrel was buckled onto my head; they hit the barrel violently with steel pipes. The intense tremor and harsh noise made my head feel like it was exploding. After I had suffered for a long period of time, the policemen burned my back with cigarettes and the unbearable pain made me lose consciousness. Then they poured cold water on me to wake me up. Finally they lit candles and used them to burn my back. After they scorched the flesh on my back, they poured the hot wax on it. The pain made my body endlessly shiver and jump. All I could hear was the cracking of the tiger bench that was shaken by me. Because there was not any good skin remaining on my body, the policemen started to shock my private parts with electric batons and pierced them. Afterwards they used an iron stick to smash my private parts. I passed out and I did not know how much time passed before I awakened. After one night's torture, my face was swollen to several times the original size and my whole body was drenched in blood. I looked badly mangled. I had twisted my body so much due to the pain that the skin and flesh at my ankles were cut through, with the bones and muscles exposed. However, when they saw that I was awake, they again dragged me outside. It was more than 10 degrees centigrade below zero outdoors and they poured cold water on my naked body. They abandoned me where I lay. They returned to the house. Half an hour later they came out to see if I was still alive. I did not know how much time passed before morning arrived. I was already at the brink of death. I was carried to the Changchun City police department. There were many small cells, each with a tiger bench inside. There were female Dafa practitioners on every tiger bench. Most of them had fainted, with their lower bodies naked or with only a cloth covering the body.

"I was sent to the Tiebei Detention Center for further torture. I began a hunger strike for five days and they stopped the torture. After I stayed in the detention center for 40 days, they sent me to the fifth division of the Chaoyang District forced labor camp. There, I went on a continuous hunger strike. Over 10 Dafa practitioners joined me in the strike. There were 500 Dafa practitioners detained in the fifth division. The division head saw that we were on a hunger strike and he led some criminals to brutally beat us. The scene was horrendous. Finally the Dafa practitioners that were on the hunger strike were taken to the first division where the Dafa practitioners were most brutally persecuted. A criminal named Xu Hui often abused Dafa practitioners. One Dafa practitioner over sixty years old used to be a mid-level officer, but because he did not wear the prisoner's uniform he was beaten by Xu Hui until he was on his last breath. But he still did not stop beating him. I almost lost confidence in life, since I had endured unspeakable agony for a very long time. All the unbearable persecutions and tortures happened in the afternoons, in the evenings, and even in the middle of the night.

"If the Falun Gong practitioners made a little bit of a sound when they were asleep, their fellow inmates would beat them up. All of this made the Falun Gong practitioners even dare not to go to sleep. I sometimes couldn't stop coughing at night; therefore, the inmates beat me for the whole night. They didn't allow me to cough at all. I didn't dare to drink water in the evening, since they didn't allow us to go to the restrooms at night. Once I couldn't help myself from going to the restroom, and I went quietly. When I came back, Xu Hui beat me up until I was almost on my last breath. He kicked me very hard in the area of my kidney, causing my kidney to move from its natural position. I couldn't move for several days.

"Once, there was a Falun Dafa practitioner in his twenties named Sui Futao. The criminals found out that he had hidden our Teacher's articles in his clothing, so they had hit him with a wrench over 50 times. Not long after that, this practitioner was beaten to death. My younger sister was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, and at the same time, her husband was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. Furthermore, only because they practiced Falun Gong, their nine-year-old child was dismissed forcefully from school under the order given by the 6-10 Office. Among the Falun Gong practitioners who kept in touch with me, eight or nine practitioners had been beaten to death. Their names were Wang Shouhui, Liu Boyang, Liu Haibo, Liu Chengjun, Xu Shuxiang, Wang Kefei, Yu Lixin and Deng Shiying. As for the names of other practitioners who were persecuted to death, I couldn't even remember their names right now! All these are facts that are extremely cruel!

"Zhang Shuchun is my second younger sister. When the police tried to arrest her, she jumped downstairs. Her broken ribs pierced into some of her organs. Her legs and arms were broken, too. She immediately fainted. Soon many passersby stopped to look at her and asked what happened. The policeman from the 6-10 Office said, 'She had a fight with her husband about a divorce.' Since she was a so-called 'Wanted Criminal,' the police took her to a hospital. But the doctors at the hospital thought it unnecessary to try to save a Falun Gong practitioner. They said, 'Just throw her out,' and surprisingly, the police did throw her out in a suburban area. Later, she was saved by some kind-hearted people. But the police put her back on the 'Wanted' list again."

Wang Yuhuan is a female Falun Gong practitioner that the Changchun police arrested. She was detained at forced labor camps nine times in the past six years. She said: "You won't believe this. But at the forced labor camp, in order to collect money, police tried to sell sleeping space. The price was 2,000 yuan (around $250) per month. Once you bought it, you would have the right to lie down on your back when sleeping. Otherwise, you would have to lie on your side since the cell was small. Meanwhile, those who bought the space were entitled to beat us up. As Falun Dafa practitioners, we wouldn't spend so much money to buy sleeping spaces. As more criminals bought sleeping space, the rest of the people had less space for sleep and it became more painful to sleep.

"In August 2000, I was sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. Police there tried to force me to 'transform.' I had to work 18 hours everyday. The workload was very high. It was to make products for export. Besides working, they forced me to write 'repentance' reports. The criminals in my cell would beat me up if I refused to do so. In order to 'transform' me, Sun Mingyan, the officer-in-charge of the No. 6 Squad, sat on my head and shocked my head and face with an electric baton for more than one hour. My hair was scorched and my face and neck were severely burned. I was bruised all over my face and body. When I was released in November 2001, I still wasn't able to pick up a bowl. The 6-10 Office also illegally took 2000 yuan (approximately $250) from me when I was released.

"On March 5, 2002, some Falun Dafa practitioners successfully broadcast a video clip about the truth of Falun Dafa on TV. The Central 6-10 Office ordered a large-scale arrest in Changchun. I was arrested then. Police arrested over 5000 Dafa practitioners at that time. Each cell at the detention center had to hold at least 50 people. They even detained Falun Dafa practitioners in bathrooms because of limited space. The First Department of the Changchun Public Security arrested me on March 11, 2002. They locked me in a 1.3 meter-high iron cage at the police substation near the Nanguan District Caishen Temple. I couldn't stand up at all. On the night of March 12, Gao Peng, Zhang Heng and some other policemen from the First Division of the Criminal Squad interrogated me. They handcuffed my hands behind my back and put a cloth bag on my head. They used a rope to tighten the bag on my neck so that I couldn't see anything and I could hardly breathe. Then they tied me up using ropes and put me in the trunk of the police car. They drove to a mountain where they brutally tortured Falun Dafa practitioners at will. Many fellow practitioners were tortured to death in this place. Mr. Liu Haibo was stripped of all his clothes and forced to kneel down. Police pushed the longest electric baton they could find into his bottom and gave his organs electric shocks. Liu died immediately on the site. Liu Haibo was a college graduate.

"Liu Yi, a doctor from the Luuyuan District Hospital, was in his thirties when he was tortured to death in this devil's hole. Twenty-three practitioners were tortured to death there. I knew many of them. The police simply buried their bodies in a hole. Xiang Min, a pretty Dafa practitioner, was carried back after a round of torture. She told me that the police sexually harassed her by touching her bottom while giving her electric shocks. Close to 30 practitioners were tortured to death in that round of arrests.

"It took them over two hours to drive me to this notorious place on a mountain. I heard them stop the car. Then they dragged me out, beating me up at the same time. The police kept cursing me and said they would torture me to death that day. They bumped me into trees and I stumbled my way to a building after 10 minutes or so. We went upstairs and downstairs, eventually entering a room. They took the cloth bag off of my head. The police said, "Let's wait and see how you die today. Nobody has walked out of here alive!" I was in a small room of about 50 square feet. There was a small desk with three long electric batons with claws on them. There was also a rope and a bed. Later, I found out that the bed was for the police to lie down and rest while cursing us, when they got tired from beating us up. I saw a tiger bench and many police busy preparing to torture me. I heard wind blowing angrily. Next, a few police forced me onto the tiger bench. They tied me to the bench with my hands cuffed behind my back and behind the bench. They fastened the iron rods at the side of the tiger bench till I couldn't move and they tied down my ankles with two large iron rings. Every five minutes, they would start a round of torture on me. They moved my arms back and forth, and I could hear my bones cracking. The huge pain made me almost faint. My sweat and tears came immediately from the pain. They pushed my head toward my legs. Because I was tied down on the tiger bench, I felt my neck bones breaking and the iron rods piercing into my breast and stomach. I was about to suffocate every second. They tied ropes on the iron rings and pulled the ropes harshly. My ankles hurt so much. Pains all over my body made me tremble. They repeated the torture like this every five minutes. My sweat and tears and blood soaked my hair and clothing. Later, I fainted because of the unbearable pain. They then poured cold water or boiling water on me to wake me up. The boiling water burned my whole body badly. I couldn't stand the slow killing and huge sufferings. I wished they would kill me with a gun.

"After inhumanely torturing me over four hours on the tiger bench, which had rendered me rather weak, they put an iron barrel on my head. Each of the seven police smoked three cigarettes at the same time and puffed smoke into the barrel. This was suffocating and I fainted. They poured cold water on me. When I was barely awake, they used the burning cigarettes to scorch my eyeballs. I would struggle a little when I began to gain consciousness. After that, they punched my head, face, nose, and teeth. They knocked out my two incisor teeth. My face swelled up and turned to dark purple. They also pierced my ears using thin sticks. I couldn't hear anything for the next two weeks. Eventually, they wore themselves out from torturing me and went to sleep at 2 a.m. "In March of 2002, they tortured me three times within 17 days in that devil's hole. Each time, the torture was more brutal. The last two times happened at midnight. Each time, seven or eight police came and took me from the cell and sent me back barely alive. One time, the police didn't want the others to see how badly I was tortured. They dressed me up in thick clothing. However, blood still came out. Then the police dressed me with more clothing but the blood soaked the clothing again. Practitioners there couldn't go to sleep because of the horror and concern over fellow practitioners.

"The police 'interrogated' all the practitioners on the 6-10 Office's blacklist everyday. They tied up each practitioner, put a cloth bag over the heads and cuffed the hands behind the backs. Then they would throw them into the trunk of the police car and drive to the mountain to the devil's hole where they viciously tortured them.

"The relentless torture destroyed my body and health. They had to lie about my poor condition to get the No. 3 Detention Center to accept me. On the following day, I was sent to the Provincial Hospital and then the No. 3 Military Hospital for physical examination. The results indicated that my body had sustained injury nearly everywhere and was in a critical condition, and thus I did not meet the minimum health standard to be detained. That afternoon, police had taken Ms. Guo Shuaishuai and me back to the prison hospital and launched a new bout of persecution there. We were tied onto a bed. Police injected me with some drug, which has made me unable to feel my legs ever since. My legs became ice-cold and completely numb.

"Practitioner Jiang Yong was persecuted here, too. He passed away after seven months of torture. Police also injected him with an unidentified drug and drew a large tube of blood from him every day. These injections and blood drawing emaciated Yong. He died during a force-feeding.

"It was terrible to witness the entire process of a person being tortured to death. The guards continuously force-fed Ms. Guo for over two months; the hard feeding tube was left in her throat the entire time. Refusing to accept the force-feeding, Ms. Guo swallowed down the 1.5-meter feeding tube. She tossed and turned in bed due to the excruciating pain. The prison hospital refused to release her in fear of her exposing the evil persecution, so it intensified the torture. Guo and I were stripped naked and tied with limbs spread apart on a bed. Police and male inmates lewdly stared at us everyday. One male prison doctor pinched and struck Ms. Guo's vagina. Unable to bear the extreme torture, Mrs. Guo swallowed the spoon that was inserted into her mouth. She again tossed and turned in bed due to the pain. The prison doctor cut open her stomach to retrieve the spoon. He deliberately made an unnecessarily long incision, stretching from the chest all the way to the vagina. He roughly sutured the extremely long cut and sent Ms. Guo to die at home. Ms. Guo never recovered from the barbarous physical and psychological torture.

"Ms. Zhao Xiaoqin and I were sent to the prison hospital the same day. 6-10 officers knocked her unconscious and pushed her down the stairs. The fall broke her left arm, caused a bump the size of a bowl on her head, and made her insane. To this day she cannot speak. The prison doctor did not change the cast on her arm the entire summer. Consequently, her arm festered, and bugs crawled around it. Seeing Ms. Zhao's suffering broke my heart. I also witnessed other atrocities in this persecution. We, the female practitioners, were all stripped naked and tied with limbs spread apart on a bed board for over 26 days. We suffered incessant humiliation and sexual assault from male police, doctors, and inmates.

"I was transferred back to the No. 3 Detention Center for refusing to renounce Falun Gong. The Detention Center refused to accept me, because it heard that I would die soon, and it feared to take responsibility for my death. Outraged police then hung me on a door for six hours and beat me. I was taken back to the prison hospital for more persecution. I went on a hunger strike to protest. On the 50th day, a prison doctor cut open my vein and placed an IV needle in it. My blood seeped out and stained the bed and floor. Already accustomed to the bloody persecution, the police and prison doctors were not at all disturbed by my excessive bleeding. Each day, they administered 10 bottles of unidentified thick fluid to me. They left me to urinate and defecate on the bed—I lay in a pool of urine and feces for over 50 days. The full extent of the misery is beyond description. My veins collapsed due to the hunger strike, so the thick fluid could not pass through. The head surgeon just shook the bottle and squeezed the fluid into my vein. I passed out many times because of the excruciating pain."

Mr. Yang Guang, another practitioner, suffered even more frightening persecution. I quote part of the letter a witness wrote to me:

"Yang Guang, who lived in Changchun City, Jilin Province, has been illegally detained since January 2000 and has suffered severe torture under the hands of Director Liang and officers in the Changchun Public Security Bureau. He was tortured with electric batons, tiger bench, straightjacket, hanging from the ceiling, plastic-bag suffocation, and force-feeding of strong alcohol. Persecutors occasionally torture him for 40 hours on end. The torture gave Mr. Yang a deaf left ear, disabled arms, paralysis from the waist down, necrosis in his right hip, a broken right leg, deformed feet, festered toes, kidney failure, and hydrothorax (fluids accumulated in his chest). Despite his life-threatening condition, Mr. Yang was sentenced to 15 years in the Jilin prison.

"Mr. Yang is held in the so-called naked district, which is the prison section for disabled inmates. Here inmates are forbidden to wear pants all year long, so that cleaning is kept minimal. Inmates made the paralyzed Mr. Yang a special wheelchair out of steel pipes, four casters, and boards for the back and sides. The seat has a hole in the center, like a toilet seat. Whenever Mr. Yang needs to go to the restroom, inmates would push his chair to the bathroom. Because of the side boards on the chair and his disabled arms, Mr. Yang cannot clean himself afterwards. Urine, feces, and foul odor enshroud Mr. Yang all year long. This naked district receives no sunlight. The conditions are utterly inhumane. This district is boiling hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter. The space for sleeping is less than 60 cm (23 in.) wide. The food is disgusting and extremely lean.

"When Mr. Yang needs cleaning, inmates wheel him to the water room and spray him with a pressure hose, and wipe him with a mop that has nails sticking out. Inmates call this a "cosmetic shower." The prison authorities subjected Mr. Yang to these intolerable conditions to force him to renounce Falun Gong. Mr. Yang, however, remained firm in his belief. He was put into solitary confinement. He was let out only when he was on the brink of death. Mr. Yang was then transferred to a special district in the Tiebei Prison in Changchun. He was given absolutely no medical treatment. Nonetheless, the prison still extorts 1,000 yuan (approximately $125) a month from Mr. Yang's family.

"Mr. Yang only has an 86-year-old mother in his home who does not know that her son has been tortured to such a horrid extent. Whenever she sees people, she would sadly implore 'Guang is a good person. Where is he now, I want my son!' Mr. Yang's wife divorced him, because there is no income to support the family. Mr. Yang has also suffered extreme psychological pain. Relatives demanded his release, but the Prison, the Ministry of Justice, and the Prison Management Bureau refused."

Dalian practitioner, Chang Xuexia, is a graceful and quiet girl. She lowered her head in shame while recounting her painful and humiliating experience in a labor camp: "I was arrested for the first time for appealing for Falun Gong. I was illegally detained for 39 days in a rehabilitation center in Dalian. In January 2003, the authorities again tried to force me to renounce Falun Gong. They locked me in a small metal cage and brought in a variety of instruments of torture. Ms. Wang Yalin, the main persecutor of Falun Gong practitioners in the center, goaded several inmates to hang me by the wrists with my feet barely touching the floor. Wang ordered inmates to 'Fix her well, all of you!'

"The swarm of inmates struck and kicked me from every side. I passed out. They dropped me on the floor and forcefully stepped on my face and arm to see if I was faking. When I woke up, I could not move my left arm, for my elbow was dislocated. Inmates who refused to torture me were transferred and their sentences extended. I was hung up again. This time inmates put Teacher's picture inside my underwear, and wrote blasphemous words against Falun Dafa and Teacher on my face. They also beat me with a hard wooden plank. The bruises have not yet faded after a whole year.

"I still refused to renounce Falun Dafa. They stripped me naked, and several inmates began pinching my breasts, plucking my pubic hair, and stabbing my vagina. They used a brush that usually cleaned the water tank. They then put a basin under my lower body to see if I was bleeding. Since no blood came out, the inmates switched to a larger brush and repeatedly stabbed my vagina with it. I could not bear the excruciating pain any longer and succumbed to their demand of not doing the Falun Gong exercises in the camp.

"What I had suffered in the camp was not the most brutal. Another practitioner named Ms. Wang Lijun was tortured in the small metal cage three times. Inmates tied many knots on a thick rope and pulled it back and forth in a sawing motion across her vagina. Her entire lower body swelled up. The head police then ordered inmates to jab her swollen vagina with the thorny end of a broken mop stick. This torture caused Ms. Wang's vagina to bleed profusely. Her abdomen and vagina were so swollen that she could not pull up her pants, or sit, or urinate. Ms. Wang still could not sit upright two months after the sexual torture. Her legs were also disabled. I also witnessed these inmates applying this same torture on a virgin. The head police officer also put venomous bugs on female practitioners' bodies."

"My name is Wei Chun (alias). I am 35 years old and live in Dalian. I started to practice Falun Gong in 1998. Because Falun Gong teaches people to live the principles of 'Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance,' I have improved greatly, both mentally and physically. I can forgive others easily and elevate my moral character at the same time. In July 1999, the government started to oppress Falun Gong. I could not ignore its abuse of our basic human rights, so I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in March 2000. When I got on the train, I was stopped and asked by a policeman to say abusive words about Mr. Li Hongzhi. I refused, and so I was arrested. Afterwards, I knew that whoever traveled to Beijing at that time, whether by train or by bus, had to say some abusive words about Mr. Li or Falun Dafa, otherwise they would not be allowed to travel.

"I was taken to the Dalian Drug Rehabilitation Center, and detained for seven days. When I was sent back to my work place, my supervisors demoted me to cleaning the factory in the morning and reflecting on my mistakes in the afternoon. They wanted me to renounce my belief and write statements slandering Falun Gong. I refused, so I was forced to quit my job. In April 2000, I found other employment. On March 15, 2001, Chen Xin and other policemen from the No. 1 Division of Dalian Public Security Bureau abducted me from my work place. They did not allow me to sleep for five days and nights. My hands were handcuffed behind my back the entire time. They put lit cigarettes into my nostrils and mouth. My mouth was filled with cigarettes. At one time, a policeman hit my head with an iron club. Afterwards, I was sent to the Dalian Detention Center and sentenced to labor for two years. On May 18, I was sent to the Fifth Team at the Dalian Labor Camp for reeducation.

"On June 4, Mr. Liu Yonglai, Mr. Qu Fei, Mr. Huang Wenzhong, and myself were brought to the 4th floor. We were to be forced to defame Mr. Li and Falun Dafa. If we did not do so, they would punish us with electric shocks. If we did so, they would take us downstairs to write the 'three letters' defaming Falun Gong and Mr. Li, criticizing ourselves, and pledging not to practice Falun Gong again. They took off all of Liu Yonglai's and my clothes, and handcuffed us together face to face. They used six electric batons on both of us, and shocked us on our heads, backs, thighs, genitals, both sides of our chests, and necks. We clenched our teeth, and struggled to avoid the electric shocks. As a result of struggling, the handcuffs became progressively tighter. They eventually cut into our flesh and down to our bones. It was extremely painful and we bled a lot.

"The electric shocks continued for about one hour, and then they separated us. They handcuffed Liu's hands behind his back, and made him crawl on the grass. They put two chairs on his back and asked two criminals to sit on the chairs. Then, another six criminals used six fully charged electric batons and repeatedly shocked his back, buttocks, neck, calves, soles of his feet, and genitals at the same time. They even pulled out his penis to shock it separately. As for me, I was tied to a chair. The legs of the chair, and the back of the chair were both tied with several electric batons. Then, they tightly tied me on the back of the chair with a rope. Another criminal held an electric baton to my head. Six batons were used to simultaneously shock me. My entire body was in convulsions. I felt that I would rather be dead than alive. I cried out in despair. My hopeless cries could be heard throughout the entire building. There were many Falun Gong practitioners on the 2nd and 3rd floors. It is said that they all wept upon hearing my shrill cries.

"The torture continued for about an hour. Then, I exchanged places with Liu. He was forced to sit on the electric shocking chair while I crawled on the grass. Again, I was shocked with six electric batons at the same time for about one hour. I felt that I could no longer bear it, but I'd rather die than betray my belief, my conscience and not defame my Master and Falun Dafa. So I started to hit the ground with my head in hopes of inducing unconsciousness. Every time the six electric batons touched me at the same time, I felt as if ten thousand arrows had simultaneously been shot into my heart.

"I felt that I had died several times. After the electric batons ran out, they would change to new ones with more voltage. I finally started to fear, so at last I submitted. Later, Liu could no longer endure it, either. He also submitted. The policemen who led the criminals to shock us were Qiao Wei, Zhu Fengshan, Jing Dianke and others. I don't remember all the criminals' names. Afterwards, I was told that when Huang Wenzhong was shocked, his face was burned and bloody. Qu Fe's cheeks were beaten with shoes so severely that they swelled up like a bread loaf. After we were taken downstairs, we wrote the Guarantee Statements to renounce Falun Dafa. When we went back to the team, we had to write a full page with the same three sentences every day, defaming Master Li and Falun Gong. Meanwhile, we had to shout the three statements out every day. It was strangling my soul. The pain it brought to me was far greater than the torture to my body. But if we opposed it or refused to do so, we would be taken to the 4th floor to be shocked until we submitted again.

"Afterwards, a Falun Gong practitioner called Li in class 3 could not endure the spiritual torture and chose to commit suicide by hanging himself. He was rescued. At that time, I did not want to live another moment. I was too humiliated. I did not want to endure the electric shocks anymore. I was afraid that I could not bear them. Nevertheless, I did not want to do such immoral things as defame our Master and Falun Dafa. I told Liu that if any practitioner dared to give his life, the guards would not dare not to persecute us like this. He said that he would sacrifice his life for the others. One day, when we were cleaning outdoors, Liu walked to the 3rd floor from the back of the building and jumped down head first. He died instantly. Soon thereafter, many Falun Gong practitioners recanted everything they wrote and said that what they had written violated their conscience, the facts were twisted due to torture and were invalid. They would firmly protect their belief and the truth. Because of this, the police put these practitioners who had recanted the three statements into the same class and put them into forced labor. They got up at 5:00 a.m. and worked until 11:00 p.m. every day. Then, they sent these nine practitioners to Guanshan Labor Camp to start a new cycle of persecution.

"I realized that I could not cooperate with the guards any longer, so I stopped wearing a prison uniform, stopped marching, stopped singing, and started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The whole class also started a hunger strike to protest with me. We were later separated, and I was sent to the third brigade where I continued the hunger strike. When a chief prosecutor asked me why I started a hunger strike, I said that I had no other means, as no court dares to accept my case. They are all Jiang Zemin's judges and courts, and no one dares to represent us. I can only use my life to protest the persecution against me, to protest Jiang Zemin and the government's persecution of Falun Gong. I have a son. When my son asks me in the future, 'What did you do during that most severe persecution of just people.' I don't want to tell him that I submitted. I want to be a person that would 'rather die with honor than survive in disgrace.' On the 15th day of my hunger strike, they released me on October 24, using the excuse that I needed outside medical treatment in fear that I might die in the reformatory."

As we listened to those who had escaped death in this persecution, one by one, we were suffocating. Some of the true stories were told by those who had escaped death from the persecution several times. Their stories would move even a devil to tears. The unprecedented and unrivalled bloody scenes, the vicious, inhuman natures, the most disastrous torture techniques—all were so vividly terrifying. Facing these fellow countrymen, while they peacefully shared their stories of the barbaric persecution one after another, we must ask of those who wear the nation's emblem and the country's uniform to maintain the peace: "In the past six of the 60 years of communist rule, how many such inhuman acts have you perpetrated and concealed?"

Where did our system fail? It has bred so many vicious public officials who live among us, have been supported by us, who were raised by parents like ours, and have families like ours! The tragic experience of our fellow countrymen fully illustrates that, in our society, there is a group of public officials who persistently disregard the basic moral values of human society, and have been continuously using methods that are completely distant from basic human morality and human nature. They covertly scheme their dirty deals that are causing the very destruction of our nation's human nature, basic morals, kindness and conscience. All fellow countrymen, including Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabo must admit that none of us can deny that our system is constantly and progressively creating such a shameful reality. And such a reality reveals the totally immoral character of our system.

Hu, Wen and all fellow Chinese countrymen: it is a time of introspection for our nation! There isn't a people on this planet or in all of history that have suffered on such a large scale, enduring such a severe and disastrous persecution in peacetime because of their faith. This ongoing disaster has cost thousands of innocent people their valuable lives, and hundreds of thousands of people have been deprived of their freedom. The facts that we have seen showed us that all those who have been deprived of their freedom have also suffered bodily devastation and spiritual torment that is unbelievable to the civilized world. This completely inhuman persecution has caused over 100 million Falun Gong followers and their families to suffer from subpoena and threats, deprivation of employment, work opportunities and income, confiscation of assets to various extents, and a persecution that extends to various other means. How absurd, dangerous, and immoral this is! This is a continuous fight against the entire Chinese people, human civilization, and the moral foundation of all the world's people!

The situations with my law office and entire family are making clear the ongoing severe situation in China today: one who insists on telling the truth must pay the price. The country continually uses violent means to warn people publicly that the desire to understand and tell the truth is extremely dangerous.

In countries with civilized systems, the truth is in the hands of those who have the political power and resources. The understanding of the value of truth is the scale used for judging a regime's civilization and morality. But in the current Chinese society, the ability of the government in obtaining the truth is completely different. I have painfully observed that living together and maturing with the political regime has been the regime's mechanism for concealing the truth. This situation makes the regime completely unable to know the truth. The regime has completely lost the necessary moral condition for knowing the truth. It has destroyed that moral condition completely.

People like Ms. Wang Yuhuan and others who suffered in labor camps personally witnessed time after time the following. When higher authorities came to inspect, all the camps had an ironclad rule: gather those who might tell the truth, like Wang Yuhuan, to a place where the inspectors cannot find them. The common rule is: the visiting leaders leave with the "truth" that they have personally "seen" and "heard." When the iron gate closes behind the leaders, the crimes against our innocent fellow countrymen will quickly start again. The facts indicate that there is a coordinated collusion between the inspector and the inspected, both of whom know the truth without spelling it out.

Now that the regime has lost the capability of obtaining the real facts, the investigation conducted by citizens themselves becomes completely legitimate and necessary, because the value of real facts is associated with the future of our nation and is closely associated with each individual who lives in this nation. We have the right to know how the power of this regime is linked to our people. We have the right to know how this persecution began six years ago. How could a country make such an immoral decision? Within these six years, how did the authorities carry out this decision? What did the country do? Within these six years, exactly how many of our innocent citizens have been illegally imprisoned behind the high walls? What exactly has happened behind that high walls? What is still going on today? Obtaining the answers to these questions is the fundamental moral obligation for the people of this country. Here we must emphasize that the government's cover-up of the truth is already worthless and is no longer an issue of only immorality. Those who have witnessed the facts will eventually enter society. In fact, many of them are already walking among people, tirelessly revealing the true facts.

Chinese government, you must realize that you are a government. Only in this way can you deal with the disastrous reality from the standpoint of a government, in the manner of a government, and through the logical actions of a government. Only in this way can we avoid tragedies like the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the bloody persecution of Falun Gong, or the recent shooting of farmers in Guangzhou. Nevertheless, we have to face such a reality often. The reality is that over a long period, similar crimes towards innocent people have been repeatedly committed without any reason. In response to the desperate anguish that disasters have brought to the people, the Chinese government has always been silent and has even suppressed the suffering people through brutality.

Our investigation has shown that, when facing the believers that are almost all "headstrong and refuse to transform," those responsible for "transforming" these individuals have completely lost their humanity. As a result, they treat those being transformed unscrupulously to the point of committing all manners of crimes. The whole system has exhibited insanity driven by desperation as the suppression has lasted six years without any success. The recent horrifying incident in which the policeman He Xuejian raped two female Falun Gong practitioners in Tunzhong City, Hebei province in front of his colleagues, is a clear example.

From several investigations, I have found that in their need to suppress the innocent, police can resort to any heinous crimes to achieve the goal of transformation. In the inhumane persecution against these believers, the Chinese police have completely become criminalized. They no longer have a conscience nor do they have any consciousness for law or justice; instead, they take for granted that their responsibility is to chop up people like fish or meat. In the prison within their jurisdiction, a cucumber can be sold to inmates for a price of 25 yuan (about $3), a roasted-chicken can sell for up to a few hundred yuan. Even the sleeping space that originally belongs to public property is turned into tradable merchandise in the hands of the people's police. Every space as wide as a person's shoulder can be sold at a price up to 2,000 yuan (about $250) per month. Many prisoners in the labor camp without money continue to be treated inhumanely in the night by having to sleep vertically on their sides.

Not only do the Chinese police have no morality, but they have also completely lost the fundamental sense of shame that is characteristic of a human being. In this investigation, another disgusting source of crime in our society is the system of re-education through labor, which has brought numerous disasters to our nation in the last half-century. The system of re-education through labor, a dirty business conducted by the Chinese State Council, has openly insulted and offensively treaded upon our constitutional principles; it has survived regardless. In human history, no government of any other nation can behave like the Chinese State Council, which completely disregards its own constitution. Since the birth of the country's constitution, the system of re-education through labor has always placed it in an embarrassing position. This demonstrates the Chinese government's lawlessness and also proves their so-called "ruling the country by law" as nothing but a hoax.

Besides the Constitution of China, a series of fundamental laws that were ratified later, including the Legislation Law of the People's Republic of China, Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Penalty, Administrative License Law Of the People's Republic of China, etc. all explicitly exclude the possibility of the Chinese State Council gaining the power to deprive people of their freedom. Fundamentally, the system of re-education through labor is the most illegal form of malpractice that prevents China from achieving the rule of law. It is the biggest enemy of the Constitution of China and of the fundamental laws and principles. It opposes the pursuit of the Chinese people for a China ruled by law.

Our investigation has shown that the system of re-education by labor, in its illegal deprivation of freedom, has been abusive beyond imagination. The elderly women Wang Yuhuan and Sun Shuxiang have been illegally arrested and detained nine times in six years. The procedure for re-education through labor is so informal and poorly enforced that it might as well be a joke. The true facts have revealed the shocking abuse of power as well as the complete lack of morality! Today is the time when a confession to our nation must be made. I must especially emphasize that if this evil crime does not stop, then the interrogation of our nation by people like Gao Chengzhi will continue. The day when Chinese society becomes stable and harmonious will not arrive. People have lost their patience with power-abusers who cast aside their conscience day and night. The storm of protests created by these people is constantly shaking the country's foundation and rocking what people have been used to for decades. How could anyone ignore this phenomenon?

Through my experience of continuously communicating with those citizens who are firm in their beliefs, I have truly seen the existence of something most precious to our nation today. Those who can calmly describe with a smile their experiences of dealing with the dreadful process of being persecuted have shaken my soul. I was often moved to tears. In our nation, I have finally seen the spirit that remains faithful and unyielding, holding onto the intangible quality of principles.

The tribulation in the last six years has created a large group of people who have this unmatchable and noble human dignity. Their firmness towards faith, the way they treat the brutal custody with scorn, as well as their optimism that our nation will have a beautiful future earns one's deep respect. Another trend we found in our investigation is that every Falun Gong follower who has stepped out of custody, no matter how long he or she was in custody, becomes more faithful. The most typical example is Ms. Han from Fuxin City, Liaoning province, who was arrested and placed in custody several times. After being released from a brutal custody that lasted for a few years, the head of the local police station tried to make her promise not to practice Falun Gong any more. To this, she told the policeman, who represents the people's government, firmly yet peacefully: "Even if you arrest me one hundred times, I will still continue to practice. The fact that we practice is nothing wrong, let alone a crime. After I returned home from custody, through constantly telling our family members and the people around me the truth about Falun Dafa, over thirty of them have joined the practice."

This time, during my stay with the Falun Gong group, I also found another delightful fact. In contrast to the current situation where the humanity, conscience, morality, compassion, and responsibility of our society is suffering an overall deterioration, these cultivators, as a group reborn from the old nation, have impacted all of these areas in a positive way. One can feel the powerful way in which faith can change one's soul. Indeed it has allowed me to see a spark of hope for rescuing our nation from its current depraved state.

Through my acquaintance with these believers, I was deeply moved by their calmness when narrating their unprecedented calamity, their compassion toward those that tortured them, and their optimism towards our nation's future. These people take fame and profit very lightly. They continue to quietly assist fellow practitioners whose lives are in danger due to the ruthless oppression. Their patience in assisting the vulnerable children or the elderly relatives of Falun Gong practitioners, who were either illegally detained or killed, is beyond a typical human being's imagination or understanding. How one's belief has such a strong influence over one's soul and morality is unbelievable.

For instance, Zhu Xiaoguang, who is 33 years old, told me that when he was first thrown in the prison, malicious interactions among inmates were the only type of communication. People there gained the upper hand by being more ruthless than the others. No one wanted to be tamed or required to exercise any self-restraint. Later on, Falun Gong practitioners miraculously cleansed the prisoners' souls and guided 100 people to begin practicing Falun Gong. He said, "I calmed myself through a complete transformation of my spirit." As a result, many new inmates were dumbfounded to find kind and helping hands in place of "tone-down lessons" upon their arrival at the prison.

The experience of Zhang Linyou, a former policeman in Kungchuling Detention Center, was even more astonishing. He told me that practicing Falun Gong led him to become the only policeman in that gigantic prison who stopped torturing prisoners and turned down any bribes. He said that he was under constant agony the first year he decided to quit his bad habits. It was extremely painful for him to see his colleagues accept bribery and to resist the temptation when he himself was short of money! He proudly told me that cultivation completely transformed his soul! Later on the 60 inmates under his charge were very grateful to him and believed that all the Chinese police should practice Falun Gong. If that happened, the prisoners said, the Chinese police would become the most civilized in the world. Nevertheless, Zhang Linyou was later illegally sentenced to forced labor and dismissed from his job for practicing Falun Gong.

Yet we are distressed to see that the transformation of people in China is going in the opposite direction. Public political pressures and temptation have annihilated the last trace of kindness in the police. The evil side of human beings is rapidly dominating their behavior, while a basic conscience is no longer valued. The police are, in fact, victims of this fanatical movement to eliminate human nature.

Belief and morality are the most important elements for securing the longevity and advancement of a nation. What our nation has missed the most over the last few decades is the underlying belief that upholds and enhances our nation's moral values. This is the cause of China's continued chaos for the past few decades. Hence, for the long-term well being of our country, one must grant and protect people's freedom of belief. Only through transforming people's hearts can we create a world with hope. What our government has been doing in the past six years is utilizing violent and barbaric tactics to impede our nation from striving towards a bright future.

In this open letter, I would also like to bring several requests to the government's attention. These are to end immediately the violent persecution of people who uphold their beliefs and to free and compensate Yang Guang and other prisoners of conscience! Yet we are not asking for the government to reinstate the good name of Falun Gong people. For in their own hearts, as well as in the hearts of ethical members in our society, no one has ever claimed that this group of people was problematic. A system that has ruthlessly tortured a nation for over half a century no longer has the moral values or qualifications to reinstate anyone's good name. Moreover, to allow such a statement to be made by this system is an insult to the victims! I hereby warn those who still endorse violence to cease their barbaric acts since this is your last chance!

Lastly, allow me to tell Mr. Hu Jintao and Mr. Wen Jiabao with respect that we must have the courage and morality to admit that the political machine, which has ruthlessly tortured our nation for half a century, is tainted with the blood and tears of innocent people and that the piteous fate of the Chinese people, owing to coercion and oppression by the dictatorship of thousands of years, is still without end. We must acknowledge that our nation, our people, have the right to pursue democracy, freedom, the rule of law, and human rights, and that this yearning has never before been this fervent. Today, any attempt to obstruct people's pursuit for the abovementioned rights will end in vain. Please pardon my frankness but all the blood debts have been engraved in the people's eyes, experiences, and tainted memories. Gentlemen, only when the safety of the suffering people is in your hearts can you find true security. Likewise, only when you genuinely care for the future of our nation will you have equally as bright a future!

Wishing Mr. Jintao and Mr. Wen Jiabao safety and health in the New Year.

May the New Year bring a new world for my fellow citizens!

May God bless the Chinese people!

Your fellow citizen,

Gao Zhisheng

December 12, 2005 Changchun City, Jilin Province

[1] On Dec. 6 paramilitary police fired on villagers in Shanwei, in Guangdong province, killing dozens. The villagers were protesting the confiscation of their land without fair compensation.

[2] Dr. Jiao Guobiao, a journalism professor at Peking University, was recently fired for his outspoken views on censorship.

[3] The "Tiger Bench" is a torture device. Victims are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall. Victims' knees are tightly tied on the small bench—the Tiger Bench. Several inmates are assigned to watch over the practitioners and force them to remain motionless while sitting on the bench. Usually some hard objects are inserted underneath the victims' lower legs or ankles to make the pain more intense. For an illustration, please see: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html

[4] In the "Death Bed" torture the four limbs are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The victim cannot move at all. Neither is he allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This treatment would last from several hours up to more than a dozen days. This type of cruel torture causes severe damage both mentally and physically. See illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/12/15/55600.html

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the Testimony of Ms. Li Ying Ping- another tortured christian

2006-03-22T20:50:00.000-08:00

Li Ying Ping was arrested sometime in may 2001. This is her testimony on the torture the communist party agents inflicted on her to admit fabricated guilt. No mercy even to a woman.

taken from china aid
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6. On May 27, 2001, our publication group was busy working, some submitting, some editing, some typing. Then we heard that sister Li Yin and brother Dong Daolai, brother Yi Chuanfu, and sister Xiao Jueyen and some other sisters were arrested. They were at a house when it happened, with the Public Safety Bureau (PSB) at that house, catching one by one. Gong came to the publication group as soon as he heard the news, arranging for people to watch the streets, and told people not to go to the house, and arranged for us to move; and so the publication work at this time stopped.
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10. They told me to go outside to the yard, and a large circle of people were already standing there, the people who arrested me, standing there, telling me to walk in the middle with the cuffs on. The cuffs were heavy, heavier than regular feet cuffs, hard to drag, but one step at a time. They said I walked too slow, so they would push me, kick me, and tell me to walk faster. I walked in a circle in the middle while dragging the cuffs, amongst them. There was yelling, and pushing, the more I walked the more they yelled, calling me names, asking me: “Where did Gong escape to?” I said “I don’t know who the person you’re talking about is.” He said: “Gong is the one with you last night.” I ignored them. Later, they pushed, pulled, and purposely pushed and pulled me so that the cuffs would rub [my legs]. The driver of the car came and pulled me as he ran, the cuffs were pretty short, about one foot, and also heavy. I could not drag it, so when he pulled me to run, my feet could not catch up, and with both legs dragging, I fell to the ground after a few steps. I had to get up, be pushed, and be dragged to run again. Already the skin on my legs was torn, the cuffs keep scratching my open wounds, scratching for about an hour, then 2 people came; it was Liu Chongzhen, and the fat guy, coming out. Those people dragged me in front of them. My feet already had open wounds, I was limp, standing there. They said: “This is our leader, you tell them, you tell them, where Gong is, and we will let you to go inside.” I stood there not making a sound, Liu Chongzhen said: “What is your name?” I ignored him. He saw me still not talking, then someone came from behind kicked me and said: “You slut! Come over here!” Then he pulled me to run in the yard again, pulling me toward an area with water (the yard’s ground was not leveled, so the lower areas had water) and pushed me toward the area with water, so that the water would splash on my body and on my wounds. So I was pushed and pulled, with water going inside my wounds, so that I just could not stand it anymore; then they pulled me to an area with rocks and with water to run. I do not know how many times I fell, and my face and mouth were puffy and bloody from falling, and I do not know where my shoes went, but I was running barefoot. I heard inside the house hitting [sounds], with people yelling and cursing. I knew sister Liu Xianzhi was also suffering like me inside the house. I gritted my teeth, letting them do what they wanted. So like this I was tortured until daylight. When daylight on the second day came, they saw that I really could not stand it; I had fallen to the floor and could not get up, I was already exhausted. Seeing that I could not get up, with the daylight dawning on them, they were afraid to continue doing things outside in the yard, so everyone dispersed, left, leaving me sitting on the floor of the yard.
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He tugged my head until I was dizzy, when he let go I just sat on the ground. Then he took two sides of my hair, a little bit of the hair, pulling it up and pulling me up, just like this, my whole body just rose up with his hand, until my feet were on tippy toes, feeling like my whole dead was going to come off, my heart just followed being lifted, and the higher I was lifted, the more I felt like my heart was lifted toward my throat and eyes, my whole body was lifted, my feet left the ground, then he harshly threw me back, and I sat on the bed heavily, and fell on the bed. Then he lifted me up again, and threw me on the ground. He just kept lifting me up, throwing me down, then held my hair and hit the ground, hitting and saying: “Are you going to tell us?” But I still made no sound. The fat director was behind, he would grab my head in the front, then the fat director would be behind me stepping on my shin, grinding my shin on the floor. I screamed because it hurt. When he heard me scream, he picked me up, then without waiting for me to turn around, slapped me about 10 times.
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14. I felt blood kept pouring out of my nose, inside my mouth. Li Zhixiang came over and stuffed my mouth with a pair of slippers, he pushed [on the slippers] stuffing really hard, he pushed really hard. When he let go, I fell on the floor, not knowing anything. I just heard voices yelling, scolding me: “Open your eyes! Look at me! Don’t close your eyes! I’m not scared if you die. I will just pull you out to be buried. See if your god will save you! See what your god will do! …” just like this he kept interrogating and kept hitting.
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Horror Built by History

2006-03-22T20:38:00.000-08:00

taken from epochtimes

How Sujiatun fits into the violent legacy of the Communist regime

By Simon Veazey

Epoch Times UK Staff

Mar 22, 2006

Trucks carry condemned prisoners past thousands of spectators who turned up to watch their executions at a stadium in Chengdu, China's southwestern Sichuan province. (AFP/Getty Images)

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How could human beings create and sustain an abomination such as the concentration camp at Sujiatun? For those of us living in normal free societies, its very existence beggars belief. What kind of society can give birth to such horror?

The camp at Sujiatun has been in existence since 2001, according to one eyewitness. But its real foundations go back much further—laid through 50 years of tyranny under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Over the last half-century, the CCP's numerous mechanisms of persecution and control have thrust their roots deep into the minds of the Chinese people and into China's culture and social structure. To try to understand the horrors of Sujiatun—and the persecution of Falun Gong—from the perspective of the present alone doesn't tell the whole story.

The violent, open mass-slaughter of the political movements such as the Great Cultural Revolution that tore through China may have passed, but they have moulded and shaped the culture and even the mindset of Chinese people into a mechanism of persecution itself that remains to this day. Indeed, such restructuring of the society was arguably the ultimate goal these campaigns.

To describe the mechanisms of persecution and control developed by the CCP in brief is impossible. The CCP's perfection of espionage, deception, propaganda, information control, incitement to hatred, killing, etc. are each a vast topic in its own right.

Perhaps the most obvious mechanism to understand in the case of Sujiatun is the mechanism of killing. Examining the CCP's history of killing, the horrors of Sujiatun remain shocking—but come as no surprise.

Sixty to eighty million people have died of unnatural causes under the CCP. For the CCP, killing is in the blood. Chairman Mao once gave the following order: "In rural areas, to kill the reactionaries, there should be over 1/1000 of the total population killed…in the cities, it should be less than 1/1000."

In his book Enemy Within , Father Raymond J. De Jaegher tells the story of some Chinese children led to the local square from school during the Sino-Japanese war. After they are gathered together, the Teacher is ordered to make the children sing. But this is not an occasion of entertainment—it is a public execution. The children's singing turns to screams as the first head rolls. The teacher tries to keep the singing going. When all thmarked for death have been executed, the soldiers cut open the victims and pull out their hearts.

The real purpose of such executions and the presence of the children was not to remove from society those elements that threatened the CCP. Its real purpose was to lay the foundations of terror deep in the psyche of the Chinese people. Public slaughters were by no means uncommon during the first decade or so of Communist rule.

The other purpose was to numb people to the horrors of murder and violence. To turn them to violent revolutionaries, unmoved by the sight and thought of murder and gushing blood.

Father De Jaegher goes on to add that after this occasion, he often saw children being forced to watch killings. The gruesome spectacle—which on the first time had made the children vomit and turn grey—eventually became a normal event to them, and they became numb to the killings. Some would even become excited about the prospect.

Killing under the CCP has often appeared random, irrational and without pattern. This was deliberate. Unpredictable, irrational, random killing is the most terrifying. It is the most effective means to control people through fear. Never knowing who could become the next target of the next movement, people only worried about surviving.

The Chinese people have become self-censoring. The generation brought up to witnesses the full-blown, open terror of the political movements in China is now the generation who would form the workers and doctors in hospitals like the ones attached to Sujiatun. With their thinking tempered by years of propaganda and the horrific memories branded onto their psyche, the first response to a hint of trouble, hearing rumours or witnessing things is reflexive and almost subconscious—say nothing and stay out of trouble.

The CCP's history holds horrors equal to those of Sujiatun. The following extract from Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party describes the most repulsive killing of all: cannibalism.

"Veteran killers had gained experience in how to remove hearts and livers while the victim was still alive, and they taught others, refining their techniques to perfection. For example when cutting open a living person, the killers only needed to cut a cross on the victim's belly, step on his body (if the victim was tied to a tree, the killers would bump his lower abdomen with the knee) and the heart and other organs would just fall out. The head killer was entitled to the heart, liver and genitals while others would take what was left. These grand yet dreadful scenes were adorned with flying flags and slogans."

Referring to incidents 40 years in the past, perhaps such passages no longer seem relevant. At first impression, present day China does indeed give the impression that it has shaken off its heritage of butchery. But the reality is that it is still the same CCP in power. And its nature has not changed.

It is not moral restraint which holds the CCP back from mass campaigns of slaughter—it is sheer pragmatism. After half a century of terror, the CCP has intimidated the Chinese people to the point that they are obedient to its will and there is no longer any need for such campaigns. The CCP also needs money from the human rights-conscious West. The CCP's bloodlust and capacity for slaughter remain the same: it is just half-dormant, played out behind the closed doors of concentration camps such as Sujiatun.

For those who have come to understand the nature and history of the Chinese Communist Party, the news about Sujiatun was not beyond belief. In the words of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng: "Don't be a bit surprised that the CCP established such a place, especially for those who have experienced or witnessed its crimes. There is nothing it would not do. Even exterminating a whole group seems reasonable to the CCP."

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Christian Leaders Detained in Raids Across China

2006-03-22T20:34:00.000-08:00

taken from epochtimes

House Church Pastor Detained in Hubei for Religious Study; 15 House Church Leaders Detained After Brutal Police Raid in Henan; Prominent Rights Lawyers Intervene

China Aid Association, Inc.

Mar 22, 2006

Theology classes at the Southwest China Christian Family Church School. Attending this bible-study class is a serious crime. (CAA)

The China Aid Association reports that several Christian House Church leaders were seized by the Chinese police in raids-often violent- in various locations throughout China. Many of the victims are still in custody.

The Chinese communist regime, officially atheist, only allows worship in state-regulated Patriotic Christian churches, using approved liturgies and communist-edited Bibles. Many Christians risk arrest and imprisonment to worship in more normal Christian traditions in small groups in private homes.

According to CAA reports, Pastor Lian Changnian was detained on March 20, 2006 at Hubei Province and is now being held at the Detention Center of Xiantao City, Hubei Province. Pastor Lian was leading a Bible study of over 100 believers at a House Church at Xiantao City when the raid occurred.

CAA also reported that 15 House Church Leaders are still detained, including a 15-year-old female evangelist, following a brutal police raid on a house church leaders' meeting in Henan Province. Two prominent human rights lawyers in Beijing agree to represent the persecuted church leaders.

Sources say the pastors were accused of being "illegal evil cult members" by the authorities; however, these pastors are believed to be part of the Henan Fangcheng Mother Church group which is known worldwide as an evangelical House Church group in China. The Chinese regime considers Roman Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans... any Christian not worshipping in the Communist church - to be "cult members."

The Chinese regime considers Roman Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans... any Christian not worshipping in the Communist church - to be "cult members."

According to several eyewitness reports, on March 13, about 100 Public Security officials raided a house church leadership meeting at Wen County, Henan Province. All of the leaders were taken into custody after the police searched them and confiscated any cash on them. Thirty-six were released within 24 hours, three were released on March 18 and six were released on March 20, but fifteen are still detained in various detention centers in different counties.

The police beat the pastors and shocked them with electric batons. 51-year-old Pastor Li Gongshe still remains in Room 210, Mengzhou City Chinese Medical Hospital for treatment of a broken rib sustained in these beatings.

Among the fifteen, the whereabouts of six are still unknown. According to a CAA investigator who interviewed several of the pastors who were released, the police treated them very brutally. All were beaten with electric shock batons at the police station. One of the leaders, 51-year-old Pastor Li Gongshe, still remains in Room 210, Mengzhou City Chinese Medical Hospital for treatment of a broken rib due to a beating by the police. According to pastor Li, after he showed the police his handicap certificate a policeman, Officer Wang, kept beating him in front of the police chief and the political director. One Christian lady, 21-year-old Ms. Shan Ailing, has left home out of humiliation because she was forced by the police to strip during the interrogation at Wenquan Police Station, Chengguan Town, Wen County, Henan Province.

The police beat the pastors and shocked them with electric batons. 51-year-old Pastor Li Gongshe still in Mengzhou City Chinese Medical Hospital for treatment of a broken rib sustained in these beatings.

Among the six missing leaders, CAA learned that 72-year-old Ms. Ma Wenqing (known as Xiaotao) was seen handcuffed and taken away because she hosted the meeting at her house. Her house was searched again by the security officials on March 20, 2006. Her home address is Zhangsi Village, Xiangyun Town, Wen County, Henan Province. The other two are children¡¯s minister, Ms. Zhang Jinzhi (44-years-old) from Dayunlan Village, Xiangyun Town, Wen County, Henan Province; and Pastor Zhang Liang (24-years-old) from Bian Ge Zhuang Village, Bian Ge Zhuang Town, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province. The other three missing pastors are from Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. They are Ms. Zhang Suihong (35-years-old) from Hequan Village, Biantang Town, Jiawang District and Ms. Xian Guirong (38-years-old) from Pingtan Village, Xinglou Town, Pizhou City and Ms. Wei Rongzhen (43-years-old) from Qianshanmiao Village, Gengji Town. Church leaders fear the reason these are still missing maybe because they were beaten so severely that the police are trying to prevent family visits.

Human Rights Lawyers Accept Risk and Defend Christians

Meanwhile, two prominent human rights attorneys, Mr. Zhang Xingshui and Dr. Fan Yafeng, have agreed to be the legal representatives in this case. Mr. Zhang Xingshui is the director of Beijing Jingding Law Firm and Dr. Fan Yafeng is a well-known constitutional law scholar at China Academy of Social Sciences.

CAA reports that Attorney Zhang is on his way to Henan to meet with church leaders and government officials.

"This new raid is certainly a contradiction to the Chinese government's commitment to religious freedom," said Rev. Bob Fu of CAA. "We urge President Bush to press the Chinese leader Hu Jintao on the religious persecution issue when he pays his planned state visit to the White House next month."

CAA urges the Chinese government to immediately release these pastors.

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The Real China

China in the news

Christians Arrested for Supporting Dr. Wenyi Wang

taken from epochtimes

White House Protest by Defense Coalition

Bills with "Quitting the CCP" Slogan Are Popular in China

Appeal to TomKat fans from china

Liu Yufeng

Appeal to Michelle Rodriguez fans from china

Liu Yufeng

Appeal: Nick Lachey fans

Liu Yufeng

Free Hao Wu- it's a gray gray world afterall

Chinese Christian News

Isn't it ironic

Wang WenYi vs Hu Jin Tao in youtube

China in the news

Essential Information on Organ Theft from Falun Gong Practitioners in China

How Should Hu Jintao Interpret Wenyi Wang's Protest

sujiatun on google earth and wikipedia

CNN: Kill and cull: China rejects doctor's testimony

Kill and cull: China rejects doctor's testimony

Tortured conscience

'Only in China'

Evidence 'overwhelming'

Wanjia Forced Labor Camp Examined Falun Gong Practitioner's Organ Conditions Four Times

Doctors in China Working Overtime on Organ Transplants

Audio Recordings of Phone Interviews with Medical Doctors in China: A Surge of Human Organs from Living Donors by May 1 and Doctors Work Overtime for Organ Transplant Operations

Conversation with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: Responding to Live Organ Harvesting in China

Former CCP Secretary Calls On International Society to Investigate Chinese Labor Camps

Inhuman Live Organ Extraction

Chinese Labor Camps are the Most Evil Place

The CCP Covers Up Its Labor Camp Crimes

Appeal to International Society for Investigations

The Epoch Times Responds to Communist Regime's Denials

Organ harvesting from living prisoners continues in China's labor camps

Informant Tells of Other Chinese Concentration Camps

Sujiatun Is Merely One of 36 Concentration Camps for Falun Gong in China

Ashes Given to Families Came from Animals or Other Bodies in the Crematorium

The Hospital in Sujiatun is Only One of 36 Similar Concentration Camps All Over China

Jilin Concentration Camp, Codenamed 672-S, Imprisons over 120,000 People

More Than 10,000 People Detained in Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Early 2005

5000 People can Be Trandferred in24 hours By Covert Rail Routes

You Won't Find Any Evidence Even If You Enter Sujiatun to Investigate

CCP's Top Ranks Name Falun Gong Practitioners "Class Enemies," Useful Only To Generate Income

Several Thousand Police Suppress Chinese Villagers

A Personal Experience in Organ Extraction from a Live Prisoner

Shocking TORTURE Testimonies from china

the Testimony of Ms. Li Ying Ping- another tortured christian

Horror Built by History

How Sujiatun fits into the violent legacy of the Communist regime

Christian Leaders Detained in Raids Across China

House Church Pastor Detained in Hubei for Religious Study; 15 House Church Leaders Detained After Brutal Police Raid in Henan; Prominent Rights Lawyers Intervene

Human Rights Lawyers Accept Risk and Defend Christians