The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- September 9, 2008

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Beaten by Police for Requesting Her Mother's Release

  • A fourteen-year-old girl ask for the release of her mother Ms. Zhang Lipo, a Falun Gong practitioner who was arrested before the Olympic torch reached the city. The Police beat the girl. Her head was badly bruised, and she was dizzy long after the beating. The girl had been thrown out by her landlord, and had no money for tuition or room and board for the upcoming school year.

  • Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Qian'an County, Jilin Province, Unlawfully Sentenced to Forced Labor

  • Ms. Peng Yan, Ms. Guo Guiping, Ms. Li Guirong, and Ms. Rong Chunling, all Falun Gong practitioners from Qian'an County, Jilin Province, have been sent to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City.



    Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Beaten by Police for Requesting Her Mother's Release

    A fourteen-year-old girl came to the Ningjiang Street Police Station in Shongyuan City, Jilin Province on August 24, 2008, and asked for the release of her mother, who had been imprisoned there for three months. The girl had been thrown out by her landlord, and she had no money for tuition or room and board for the upcoming school year.

    The police station director first threatened to go to her school administration, and later promised to release the girl's mother if her aunt came and signed some documents. After that, the police took her back to the apartment that'd she'd been kicked out of and left her there.

    On August 25, 2008, the girl's aunt came from the countryside. She went to the police station with the girl, but the director refused to release the mother. The police also forced the aunt to sign some documents and take the girl away. When the girl kept begging for her mother's release, the director told two officers, "Drag the girl over here." When the aunt held on to the girl's hand, an officer punched her in the face and knocked her to the ground. The girl was dragged off to another room.

    Officer Yuan Chuanlei entered the room and he punched and kicked the girl dozens of times. Her head was badly bruised, and she was dizzy long after the beating. The officer threatened her, "You will be sent to juvenile reform if you dare to ask for your mother again."

    The mother of the girl is 38-year-old Ms. Zhang Lipo. She went through a divorce when her daughter was eight months old. She opened a tailor shop, raised the girl by herself, and lived on Linjiang Street, Ningjiang District, in Songyuan City. Ms. Zhang started practicing Falun Gong in 1998.

    After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, Ms. Zhang distributed truth clarification leaflets to expose the persecution and the CCP's lies. She was arrested and almost beaten to death. Later she was sentenced to one year of forced labor.

    At around 4:00 p.m. on May 27, 2008, before the Olympic torch reached the city, she was arrested without cause at a supermarket by officer Yuan Chunlei from  Linjiang Street Police Station.

    After Ms. Zhang Lipo was arrested, her fourteen-year-old daughter was left without any support. The girl managed to finish the school semester, but with the upcoming new semester, she had no way to pay her tuition or her room and board. Her relatives are poor farmers who can hardly support themselves, and they can't help her pay the 8,000 yuan per-year tuition, room and board.

    Linjiang Police Station: 86-4383121470
    Domestic Security Team: 86-438-6224593

    Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/8/29/184947.html


    Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Qian'an County, Jilin Province, Unlawfully Sentenced to Forced Labor

    Ms. Peng Yan, Ms. Guo Guiping, Ms. Li Guirong, and Ms. Rong Chunling, all Falun Gong practitioners from Qian'an County, Jilin Province, have been sent to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City.

    Ms. Peng Yan, a retiree in her 60s, was at her brother-in-law's birthday party on July 11, 2008, when she was taken away by four officers from the Kunchi Police Station. She was pulled outside, carried into a police van, and taken to a detention center. When she got out of the van, she could not walk, because her legs had been injured when the police dragged her out. During her detention, she was tortured so brutally that the pain prevented her from sleeping. Even so, she was sent to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun on July 31, and her family was not notified.

    Ms. Rong Chunling, 53, a schoolteacher from Central High School of Shuizi County, was taken to the Qian'an County Detention Center as soon as the head of the local police station, Lv Yongfeng, and others brought her back from Heizuizi Labor Camp. During her detention, the police tried to force Ms. Rong to write a statement renouncing Falun Gong. Because she refused to cooperate, she was sent to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp on July 31.

    Ms. Guo Guiping, 42, a resident of Zhengzi Village in Qian'an County, was dragged onto a police van and taken to a detention center just after midnight on July 11, 2008, after six or seven policemen broke into her house. Because she refused to cooperate with them, she was sent to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp on July 31, 2008.

    Ms. Li Guirong, in her 40s, a resident of Gongnonghu Township, was forcibly taken to the Qian'an County Detention Center just past midnight on July 11, 2008, after officers from the Gongnonghu Township Police Station broke into her home. They ransacked her house and confiscated Falun Gong books. On July 31, she was sent to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp.

    Gongnonghu Police Station officers knowingly violated the law. Instigated by the Communist regime, they have harassed Falun Gong practitioners many times, preventing them from leading normal lives. Some practitioners have been forced to leave their homes and become destitute and homeless to avoid arrest.

    Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/9/1/185110.html