Investigative Report on the Persecution of Falun Gong by Wu Zhenhua, Li Zunying, Zang Shengye, Zhang Zhenjiang, Fan Guohua, Guo Sushan, and Ma Wensheng

Government officials in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

January 2, 2021

Since July 1999, government officials in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province have closely followed Jiang Zemin's directive of persecuting Falun Gong. Shijiazhuang City officials have illegally arrested, detained, and tortured many Falun Gong practitioners. They forcefully “brainwash” the practitioners and have sent many to forced labor camps. Shijiazhuang City is one of the cities with the most severe persecution of Faun Gong. According to incomplete statistics, between January 2001 and March 2005, in Shijiazhuang City, at least 49 practitioners died as a result of torture and mistreatment by Chinese officials (the list of deceased is at the end of this document).

The following are some of the Shijiazhuang City officials who are responsible for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners between January 2001 and March 2005.

(1)

Full Name of Perpetrator: Wu (last name) Zhenhua (first name) (吴振华)

Gender: Male

Country: China

Date/year of Birth: July 1946

Place of Birth: Yutian County, Hebei Province

Title or Position:

June 2001 – September 2006: Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Shijiazhuang Municipal Standing Committee and member of the Hebei Province CCP Committee.[1],[2]

(2)

Full Name of Perpetrator: Li (last name) Zunying (first name) (李遵英)

Gender: Male

Country: China

Date/year of Birth: October 1947

Place of Birth: Tianjin City

Title or Position:

December 1997 – June 2001: Director of the Department of Supervision of Hebei Province and member of the Hebei Province Commission for Discipline Inspection.

June 2001 – January 2001: Deputy Secretary of the CCP Shijiazhuang Municipal Standing Committee.

January 2004 – March 2006: Deputy Secretary of the CCP Shijiazhuang Municipal Standing Committee, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress.[3]

Li Zunying has visited the United States many times.[4]

(3)

Full Name of Perpetrator: Zang (last name) Shengye (first name) (臧胜业)

Gender: Male

Country: China

Date/year of Birth: February 1951

Place of Birth: Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province

Title or Position:

December 2000 – March 2005: Deputy Secretary of the CCP Shijiazhuang Municipal Standing Committee, Acting Mayor, Mayor of Shijiazhuang City. Later, member of Hebei Province CCP Committee, Chairman of the Hebei Province Trade Unions, Secretary of the Hebei Province Commission for Discipline Inspection.[5]

(4)

Full Name of Perpetrator: Zhang (last name) Zhenjiang (first name) (张振江)

Gender: Male

Country: China

Date/year of Birth: unknown

Place of Birth: unknown

Title or Position:

August 2001 – February 2003: Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Shijiazhuang. The Political and Legal Committee is a mechanism by which the CCP sends orders and directions for the persecution of Falun Gong.

February 2003 – March 2007: Deputy Secretary of the CCP Shijiazhuang Municipal Standing Committee.[6]

Present: Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, retired.

(5)

Full Name of Perpetrator: Fan (last name) Guohua (first name) (范国华)

Gender: Male

Country: China

Date/year of Birth: unknown

Place of Birth: unknown

Title or Position:

April 1998 – May 2003: Director of Shijiazhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau.[7]

Full Name of Perpetrator: Guo (last name) Suoshan (first name) (郭锁山)

Gender: Male

Country: China

Date/year of Birth: unknown

Place of Birth: unknown

Title or Position: Deputy Director of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau; Director of the Shijiazhuang City “Brainwash Center.”[8],[9]

(6)

Full Name of Perpetrator: Ma (last name) Wensheng (first name) (马文生)

Gender: Male

Country: China

Date/year of Birth: unknown

Place of Birth: unknown

Title or Position:

July 1999 – 2012: Deputy Director of Internal Security Department in Shijiazhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau.[10]

The Internal Security Department is the “610 Office” within the Public Security Bureau. The Internal Security Department, i.e. “610 Office,” is in charge of directing and carrying out the persecution of Falun Gong.

Main Crimes:

Jiang Zemin's faction began to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999. In Shijiazhuang City, between January 2001 and March 2005, at least 49 practitioners were killed and many more were tortured to the point of becoming disabled. The then city officials, Wu Zhenhua, Secretary of the CCP Shijiazhuang Municipal Standing Committee, Li Zunying, Deputy Secretary, Zang Shengye, Mayor of Shijiazhuang City, Zhang Zhenjiang, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Shijiazhuang, Fan Guohua, Director of Shijiazhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau, Guo Suoshan, Deputy Director, Ma Wensheng, Deputy Director of Internal Security Department, are responsible and should be held accountable for these deaths and permanent injuries.

As the Secretary of the CCP Shijiazhuang Municipal Standing Committee (June 2001-September 2006), Wu Zhenhua is responsible for all the cases of persecution in the city during his tenure. As soon as he took the position, Wu gave a secret order to all public security departments in the city that any and every Falun Gong practitioner who hangs even a single Falun Gong flier should be sent to forced labor camp.[11]

As Deputy Secretary of CCP Shijiazhuang Municipal Standing Committee, Li Zunying was in charge of the Political and Legal department (which specialized in persecuting Falun Gong) including “Hebei Province Political and Legal Education Center” which is a brainwashing center (a black jail designed to force Falun Gong practitioners to quit their faith). Beginning in August 2001, practitioners around Shijiazhuang City were rounded up and taken to the Center for three months of brainwashing. If the brainwashing failed and practitioners refused to be “transformed,” they would be sent to forced labor camp. In six months, there were six rounds, nearly 100 practitioners were taken to the Center.[12]

During his time as the Mayer of Shijiazhuang, Zang Shengye was calling for a crackdown of Falun Gong at the city’s education work conference on April 6, 2001. On the evening of September 28, 2001, Zang led 30-50 riot policemen armed with submachine guns. They stormed into a residence, slapped and punched everyone there, abducted six Falun Gong practitioners, and confiscated their personal belongings. Two more practitioners were abducted in the next few days. The eight abducted practitioners are: Zhao Lishan, Zhang Shijun, Niu Mingang, Yang Xiaojie, Lan Zhiqi, Shi Yan, Zhang Lingjiang, and Liu Runling.[13] Each was tortured and interrogated for a month before being transferred to different detention centers for “attentive detention.” Sources said that some were tortured until they fell into a coma; some were forced to sit in iron chairs for two months (causing severe muscle tightening and crippling to the point of rendering one unable to walk); some were shocked with electric batons on their private parts; and some were quietly transferred away (no one knows whether they are still alive or their whereabouts).[14] All of these practitioners were given at least 10 year jail terms.[15] Many were persecuted to death. In his government working report in 2003, Zang Shengye proposed a strict offensive strike against Falun Gong.[16]

During the time while Zhang Zhenjiang was Shijiazhuang City Political and Legal Committee Secretary, he personally directed the persecution and brainwashing of Falun Gong practitioners.[17] In 2002 to 2003, Zhang organized various anti-Falun Gong propaganda activities in the city and neighboring counties. From April 1999 through 2000, when Zhang was Secretary of the CCP Committee of Xinhua District of Shijiazhuang City, at least 807 local persecution cases were reported. Among them was that of Mr. Zuo Zhigang who was arrested a day before his wedding and killed the same day. There were strong indications that Mr. Zuo was a victim of live organ harvesting.[18]

Fan Guohua directly conducted the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners during his term as Director of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau.[19],[20]

Guo Suoshan was Deputy Director of Shijiazhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau and Director of the “Hebei Province Political and Legal Education Center” (i.e., a brainwashing center). The brainwashing center was a concentration camp for torturing Falun Gong practitioners physically and mentally.[21] Guo would directly give orders to “transform” practitioners which resulted in large amounts of torture and subsequent deaths. The “Shijiazhuang City 2001 Yearbook” recorded that this center's “transformation rate” was 100%.[22],[23]

Ma Wensheng was the Deputy Director of the Internal Security Department of Shijiazhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau. Ma's full-time job was to persecute Falun Gong. He was responsible for many illegal arrests which led to the death of a number of practitioners. Ma's department closely cooperated with the brainwashing center in order to force practitioners to renounce their faith.[24]

Example Cases in Shijiazhuang City:

Case 1: Female practitioner died after being tortured for several days.

In 2001, a female practitioner, whose name is unknown, was handcuffed to the ground and tortured for several consecutive days at a labor camp in Shijiazhuang City. She died from this torture. In the labor camp, many practitioners were frequently tortured to the point of losing consciousness. The guards would cover it up by blocking all news from leaving the camp.[25]

Case 2: Mr. Wang Hongbin was killed; entire family was persecuted.

Mr. Wang Hongbin, 39, was arrested from his home in December 2000. He was sentenced to forced labor camp for three years where he was physically tortured and mentally tormented. Mr. Wang was deprived of sleep, tortured using sleep deprivation over long periods of time. The guards ordered the inmates to burn his fingernails off from the root. He was handcuffed to metal bars by one hand for three days and three nights and subjected to long periods of physical torture and mental trauma. His health declined. The labor camp authorities did not permit his release on medical parole and only released him when he was in critical condition. Mr. Wang passed away three months later.

Mr. Wang and his wife suffered a total of six arrests and their home was ransacked five times. Mr. Wang's sister-in-law, Ms. Feng Xiaomin, also a practitioner, was severely beaten by police. She passed away in October 2003. Mr. Wang's brother-in-law, practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaofeng, was forced to live in exile. His father-in-law fell ill from grief after losing several family members and constant police harassment. He died in March 2005.[26],[27]

Case 3: Mr. Yang Yun persecuted to death.

Mr. Yang Yun, 43, was abducted and taken to the brainwashing center in Shijiazhuang City on March 1, 2002. From 8 a.m. until midnight, Mr. Yun was interrogated physically and mentally until he was unable to breathe, his body turned blue, and he collapsed. As a result of physical and mental abuse incurred while detained, Mr. Yang passed away in April 2003.[28]

Case 4: Mr. Yang Xiaojie died while serving an 11-year jail sentence

Mr. Yang Xiaojie, 40, worked at the China Youth Daily newspaper publishing company. On September 28, 2001, Mr. Yang and his wife Ms. Liu Runling were arrested during a mass arrest. In 2002, the couple were each sentenced to 11 years in prison. While in prison, Mr. Yang was beaten and force-fed with concentrated saltwater resulting in him vomiting blood. Mr. Yang was persecuted to the point of becoming bedridden. He was diagnosed with a mediastinal tumor and bone tuberculosis. The prison refused to provide treatment. Mr. Yang died in January 2006.[29],[30]

Names of the Falun Gong practitioners persecuted to death between January 2001 and March 2005, in Shijiazhuang City (49 people)[31]

Year 2001: Zhang Wenping, Guo Shutian, Tao Hongsheng, Zhao Fengnian, Ding Gangzi, Ding Yan, and Cao Faizhen.

Year 2002: Fu Jinshe, Xie Fengting, Mao Yanping, Jia Zhenjie, Zheng Hailiang, Zhang Ruhua, Zhu Minmin, Cui Fengtai, Zhai Mingfu, Liu Erzeng, Kang Ruizhu, Ding Lihong, Cui Dexin, and Zhang Zi-E.

Year 2003: Yan Ezi, Wu Huaxiang, Liu Cangzhen, Wang Hongbin, Kong Guiliang, Zhang Xiaonian, Ma Zaoling, Bian Binyue, and Gong Qunzhi, Dong Cui.

Year 2004: Feng Xiaomin, Yang Yanyun, He Zang, Zhang Sanni, Liu Huamiao, Zhao Liuchun, Zhu Shuangxi, Qi Xueping, Yan Xiangzhi, Zhang Tongyan, Wang Rongtan, Dong Yanping, Li Chunwen, Zhao Wenyu, and Liu Xing.

Year 2005 (March): Cheng Jingshan, Wang Suting, and Fu Zhilong.

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