(Clearwisdom.net) The parents of Li Hong, Li Liang, and Yi Ying used to serve in the Chinese Military Secret Service, and were happy that they made contributions to their country.
Falun Gong practitioners Li Hong, Li Liang and Li Ying’s parents
 Young Li Liang and Li Hong |  Older daughter Li Hong (left) and younger daughter Li Ying (right) |
After the parents began practicing Falun Gong in 1994, all of their illnesses disappeared and they looked much younger. The father, who used to need help walking, is now able to take care of his grandson. The mother is in her 60s but can walk briskly with no problems.
In October 1999, the son, Li Liang, wrote an appeal letter to the government and was arrested and sentenced to one-and-a-half years of forced labor. He was held at the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin.
The family went to all of the police departments in Tianjin numerous times and eventually found out where their son was being held. They went to the labor camp after a bus trip that took over two hours, but the labor camp authorities refused to let them see their son, because he refused to give up his belief in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. They went every month but were always rejected. They don’t know what their son is being subjected to. Every time they hear that the guards have beaten someone to death, their hearts stop because they are afraid their son will be next.
The youngest son Li Liang was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor
Their eldest daughter was deprived of her freedom during the Chinese New Year, simply because she persisted in her Falun Gong practice. They authorities sentenced her to several years of forced labor.
Their son and daughter were taken away from them, and their grandson cried for his mother. Their younger daughter was busy working in Shanghai. The only option she had was to call them on the phone. When they didn’t receive a phone call from their daughter for several days, they would worry that she was also arrested.
Their younger daughter said she would come home during the 2001 Chinese New Year. When the mother went to the train station to pick her daughter up, she was surprised that nobody showed up. She called her home in Shanghai but no one answered, and her cell phone was turned off. It was during a holiday so her work unit phone was not answered, either. The mother could not take the sudden shock and her hair turned white. The father sat on the couch stunned and full of worry.
They spent a Chinese New Year without the company of their children, accompanied only by their own tears.
Their younger daughter’s birthday is on January 15. They bought a cake but no one ate it. They hoped they would hear from her. Eventually, they learned she was illegally sent to the Shanghai City Brainwashing Center to force her to give up her belief.
They knew nothing about their children’s condition in the labor camp or the brainwashing center, but they believed their children had done nothing wrong, because there is nothing wrong with believing in Truth, Compassion, Tolerance and being a good person. The mother, who is in her 60s, was sent to a detention center. When she was released one month later, the perpetrators demanded that she sign a document, saying that she would not be released if she didn’t sign it. She reluctantly signed her name because she was worried about her husband and her three incarcerated children.
In April 2001, their elder daughter was released from the labor camp, and in May their younger daughter was released from the brainwashing center. The mother and father were able to live a more normal life again.
The October 1 holiday was a happy occasion because the two daughters were reunited with their parents. Although they were followed and their phone was tapped, the two daughters took a walk with their parents.
The younger daughter again accompanied the parents to the labor camp and tried to visit her brother, but they were turned away.
Several days after the younger daughter returned to Shanghai, she was arrested on a work errand, again because of her belief in Truth, Compassion, Tolerance. She was held for two years. Her husband arrived in Tianjin from Australia to visit his parents and wife in Shanghai, but was deported.
Younger daughter Li Ying rescued to Australia
The mother went to Shanghai by train on a hard-seat. Before she could find a place to stay, she went to the labor camp on a bus but wasn’t allowed to see her daughter. She returned to Tianjin disappointed and full of worry.
In March 2002, six months after her arrest, the mother saw her younger daughter for the first time. She held back her tears. The mother was not allowed to hug her daughter.
Before the Chinese New Year 2003, the father cooked up a feast and the grandson waited for his mother, but what they received was a statement, stating that their elder daughter was again arrested and sentenced to two-and-a-half years of forced labor.
The parents now no longer trust sentence statements with red stamps on them. Their younger son was sentenced to one-and-a-half years of forced labor in October 1999. He was still not released four years later, in October 2003. They didn’t know how long their elder daughter was going to be held.
Their grandson is now older and didn’t shed tears in front of everyone. One night when the father tucked in the child, he saw that a large area of the child’s pillow was soaked with tears. The grandparents went between Shanghai and Tianjin to visit their three illegally held children.
Their younger daughter was supposed to be released after the October 1, 2004 five-day holiday. After the holiday, the mother took a train to Shanghai. She spent one of the happiest periods of her life with her daughter at home. Their son-in-law called them and they learned that he went to many government agencies in the past two years to seek help. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs intervened and eventually the Chinese government released his wife.
Although the mother does not want her daughter to leave, she said, “Get out of China so I will not have to worry about you, so you will not be arrested and held repeatedly like your elder sister and younger brother.”
With help from the Australian government, their younger daughter successfully arrived in Australia, but she could no longer visit her parents. Her parents could not leave China, so they couldn’t attend her wedding.
On May 22, 2004, their son was released after 56 months of detention. The grandson was so happy to see his uncle, he stuffed him with his favorite foods. The grandson followed his uncle everywhere.
Every month the old couple went to visit their elder daughter. They laughed because they knew it would not be long before they are re-united with their children.
They didn’t expect that on October 2, 2004, six or seven police officers would break into their home and demand to know about their son’s contacts, and who owned the book Zhuan Falun. The parents learned their son was again secretly arrested. No one told them why he was arrested or where he was being held. They called the police department, police station and the city police department but received no answer.
The father shook in anger and frustration, and the mother was overwhelmed with worry.
Both of their children are university graduates and they are eager to contribute to society. Instead, they are being held in labor camps and detention centers, and are being tortured. Their younger daughter was strapped to a metal door in the winter for three days and three nights until she lost the feeling in her arms; she was tied to a bed 14 hours a day, face up, and was force-fed. She was held in a solitary confinement cell for six months.
They don’t know what their son went through, but they know a university student held in the same cell as their son died from torture. Their son didn’t want to tell them about his suffering because he didn’t want to upset them. He didn’t want to return to the hellish place, the labor camp. Now that he was again arrested, there is no way to know what he is going through.
Kind-hearted people: please pick up the phone and support these innocent people who are being persecuted.
Perpetrators responsible for the persecution of Li Liang, 33 years old, are listed as follows:
Hebei District National Security Bureau: 86-22-26353788
Police officers: Song Xiaosheng, Liu Guangtao (who arrested Li Liang and ransacked his home)
Heping Village Police Station in the Hedong District
Office: 86-22-24329184
Address: Inside No. 9 Heping Village Street
Police officer: Di Tao, responsible for household registration
Police officer: Sun Peihai, former police officer responsible for household registration
Chunhua Street Office Committee in the Hedong District, Tianjin
Phone: 86-22-24328563
Party secretary: Shen
Li Xia: Party committee
Huo Xiuling: person formerly in charge of Falun Gong; she is directly responsible for Li Liang’s detention until May 2004. Now Li Xia is in charge of the persecution.
Huakangli Street Committee in Chunhua Street, the Hedong District, Tianjin: 86-22-26461086
Chunhua Street Party Committee secretary: Qian, female
Guo Xiuzhen: Chunhua Street Party Committee assistant secretary: 86-22-26418379 (Home), husband Zhang Zhen
Hedong District Police Department: 86-22-24211876
Hebei District Police Department: 86-22-2635-2540
Tianjin City Police Department hotline to report police violations: 86-22-23398255
Tianjin City Police Department: 86-22-27318989 ext. Hebei District police department
Elder daughter Li Hong is 40 years old, currently being held at the Banqiao Women’s Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin, Group 1 under Division 1
Address: Banqiao Women’s Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin
Zip code: 300270
Phone: 86-22-63251823 (front office), 86-22-63251619 (Office), 86-22-63251069 (Education Division)
Younger daughter Li Ying is currently lives in Australia.
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Mr. Li Liang from Tianjin Arrested by 610 Office Again after Being Imprisoned and Persecuted for Eight Years
August 02, 2012 | By a Minghui correspondent in Tianjin
Name: Yang Guanghui (李良)
Gender: Male
Age: 41 (Born in 1971)
Address: Hedong District, Tianjin
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 8, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Beichen Detention Center (北辰看守所)
City: Tianjin
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention
Gender: Male
Age: 41 (Born in 1971)
Address: Hedong District, Tianjin
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 8, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Beichen Detention Center (北辰看守所)
City: Tianjin
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention
(Minghui.org) On June 8, 2012, a dozen police officers from the Beichen District 610 Office in Tianjin City as well as the Domestic Security Division broke into Mr. Fan Jinzhu’s home and arrested Mr. Li Liang, Ms. Liu Yanli, and five other Falun Gong practitioners. All of them were taken to a police department. Mr. Li is still illegally detained at the Beichen Detention Center and his current situation is unknown.
Mr. Li Liang, his parents, and two older sisters, Li Hong and Li Ying, started to practice Falun Gong in 1994. He was already an outstanding youth, and, after he began to practice Falun Gong, he treated others even better and many of them benefitted from his selfless assistance.
Li Liang and his second sister Li Ying when they were young
On June 8, 2012, around 1 p.m., the police suddenly broke in while Mr. Li Liang and his wife Ms. Liu Yanli were in Mr. Fan Jinzhu’s kitchen preparing dumplings. After demanding to know Mr. Li’s name, the police made him wait in the living room. Then they took Ms. Liu to the cellar, searched her bag, and confiscated everything in it. The police also confiscated Mr. Li’s car, cell phone, wallet, ID, and other personal belongings. Mr. Fan was taken back to the police department as well.
Around 4 p.m., the police escorted them home and ransacked their place. On June 9, Mr. Li’s older sister learned that he was detained at Beichen Detention Center.
In the 13 years since the communist regime began its persecution of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Liang has imprisoned for a total of eight years
-Detained for two years in Tianjin Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin
On September 28, 1999, at around 9 p.m., Tianjin Hongqiao Police Branch sent officers to Mr. Li Liang’s place to bring him to Hongqiao Detention Center. At the time, Mr. Li Liang worked at the Beijing Cultural book store. He was sentenced to forced labor for 18 months in Tianjin Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp.
In the labor camp, on the 200-meter-long path from the main entrance to the building, deputy head guard Lang Tao and office staff person He Jun viciously hit Li Liang’s face as they walked. The beatings became more and more brutal as they progressed. By the time he went up the building stairs, a walnut-sized bump had risen on the left side of Mr. Li’s face. In the afternoon, political head Zhen Runzhong attempted to force Mr. Li to write a repentance statement but he refused. Zhen then hit his face, causing it to bleed. His entire face was covered with blood. There was blood on his shirt and on the ground. Zhen Runzhong ordered a prisoner to wash his injuries with water, then continued to beat him, splashed him with water, and then beat him again. This went on for four rounds until Zhen was exhausted. Once, He Jun made him squat on the ground, stepped on his back, and shocked him with an electric baton.
From June to September 2000, the 5th division stepped up its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Every day practitioners were forced to participate in classes where they had to sit without moving and watch speeches defaming Falun Gong, which were played repeatedly. They had to sit this way for nearly 20 hours every day and were only allowed to go to sleep at 4:30 a.m. They had to wake up at 5:30 a.m. Guard Du gave every practitioner a piece of cloth he derisively claimed was the “world’s largest piece of rag.” The rag was about 2 cm long and 4 cm wide, slightly larger than one’s thumb. Practitioners had to wipe the floors, walls, toilets, and urinals with this tiny rag. They could not use a basin and had to use their lunch boxes to hold water to rinse the rag. Practitioners had to finish cleaning up the restroom areas or else they could not go to bed. Often they had to clean until dawn.
In the summer of 2001, because practitioners in the 5th division asked to be allowed to do the exercises, they were forced to sit cross legged on the ground. Their legs were tied with ropes, and someone stood on their legs, pressing hard on them from time to time. They had to lift both hands, palms facing upwards. Then a lighted cigarette was placed on their palms until it was completely burned out. Their hands were burned and festered and the smell of burning flesh permeated the entire room.
On September 13, 2001, Mr. Li was charged with “refusing to ‘reform,’” and his sentence was extended by another five months on top of an extension of six months which had not expired. He was transferred to Yushan Forced Labor Camp in Jixian, Tianjin. Later, his sentence was extended another month.
At the labor camp, more than 150 people were imprisoned in cells meant to hold only 90. As a result, many of them had to sleep on the floor and in the corridors. The facility lacked labor safety measures, consequently, it was common to sustain injuries such as fingers being rolled over by equipment, fingers burned, and so on. Because there was wax and talcum powder everywhere, the wounds quickly became inflamed and infected. Finger joints became gnarled and nails fell off. If quotas were not met, the guards would not let the practitioners sleep and beat them or made them stand for long periods of time. For a dozen days continuously, practitioners were only allowed to sleep less than two or three hours every day. Worse yet, some of them were forced to work non stop without sleep for three to five days. Many of them fell asleep while working.
Practitioners were often verbally abused and physically tortured. In the first half of 2000, the guards used a large wooden stick bent into a circle, 150 cm in circumference, 10 cm in diameter, to beat several practitioners, who had to stand bent over at a 90-degree angle, face facing the ground, pants stripped off. They were struck up to a dozen times. The beatings continued the next day. When their pants were taken off, extensive bruising and swelling could be seen. Even those who carried out the beatings could not bear to continue.
-Detained for two years at Qingpowa Labor Camp and Jianxin Labor Camp in Tianjin
On April 28, 2002, Mr. Li Liang finished his sentence and should have been released. The guards took him to the office in the morning. There were several unidentified people in the room, two of them in police uniforms.
The strangers wanted to take him away. He said, “I’m waiting for my family.” They gave all kinds of excuses to take him away.
One of them then lied to Mr. Li, saying, “Your family is here, they are waiting downstairs.” However, when he went outside the main entrance, Mr. Li only saw a white car with seven people in it. They shoved him into the car and took him to Jianxin Forced Labor Camp.
On June 27, 2002, Mr. Li was taken to Qingpowa Forced Labor Camp and subsequently secretly transferred to Jianxin Forced Labor Camp. He was imprisoned for another two years.
-Sentenced to forced labor for two years again
In May 2004, Mr. Li was released. However in less than five months, in October, he was again sent to a
forced labor camp for two years.
His family hired a lawyer but the lawyer could not find the person who was truly responsible for his case. He contacted Liu Guangtao, who had ransacked Mr. Li’s house, but Liu said he was no longer in charge of the case and told the lawyer to seek police officer Liu Shiwei. However Liu Shiwei kept avoiding the lawyer. The lawyer did not know who was in charge of the case until November 3, 2004, when Li Liang’s family received a letter informing them of his arrest.
-Frequent harassment and short term detention
In October 2006, Mr. Li Liang returned home. On sensitive dates, the police would monitor him around the clock, even sleeping with him. This affected Li Liang’s normal life and work.
In September 2007, under the guise of “maintaining stability” during the 17thNational People’s Congress, Mr. Li was detained for one month in Beijing.
On the eve of the 2008 Bejing Olympics around July 10, the police went to harass Mr. Li again at his workplace, but he happened to be away from work at that time. However, he was forced to leave home to avoid being arrested again.
-Imprisoned again for two years
In December 2008 in Chongqing, Mr. Li was arrested by the Hedong District Police Department 610 Office. He was sentenced to two years. On December 25, 2010, he was released.
-Current arrested
On June 8, 2012, Mr. Li Liang was detained once again. He is still in custody in Beichen Detention Center.
A Family of practitioners brutally persecuted
In 1994, Mr. Li’s parents began to practice Falun Gong. Before that, his father couldn’t walk without help. Soon afterwards, he could take on the responsibility of looking after and teaching his grandson. His mother was in her 60s. After she started practicing Falun Gong, she could walk swiftly and ride a bicycle like a young person.
Mr. Li Liang’s Parents
Mr. Li has two older sisters, Li Hong and Li Ying. Everyone in his family began to practice Falun Gong.
Li Liang’s eldest sister Li Hong (left) and second sister Li Ying (right)
After the communist regime started its persecution of Falun Gong 13 years ago, this family of five has suffered inhumane persecution.
Related article: “Calling on People from All Walks of Life to Stage an Urgent Rescue Effort for Falun Dafa Practitioner Li Liang in Tianjin City”http://en.minghui.org/emh/articles/2003/1/12/30803.html#.UALwAPXuhac
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