Four Dafa Practitioners Suffer Mental Breakdowns Due to Severe Torture at Tuanhe Labor Camp, Beijing

Beijing Dafa practitioners Lin Chengtao and Liu Xiao were persecuted to the point of having mental breakdowns. Another Dafa practitioner, Zhao Xindong, was driven to mental collapse due to the relentless physical and mental abuse at the 5th team of the Tuanhe Labor Camp. Zhao Xindong was from Northeast China and was illegally detained in the "Intensive Training Team" due to his righteous belief in Dafa. Because of the brutal torture he endured, Zhao Xindong lost the ability to take care of himself and was released from the labor camp around November of last year.

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Cable TV Channel in Southern Chinese City Broadcasts Falun Gong Truth-Clarifying Videos

(Clearwisdom.net)

On July 9, 2002 Beijing time, a cable TV channel broadcasted the Falun Dafa truth-clarifying videos, "Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square: A Staged Tragedy?" "Witnesses," and "Falun Dafa Spreads All over the World" in two districts of a Southern Chinese City. The truth-clarifying videos broke through the Jiang regime's information blockade and played continuously for more than an hour.

Far Eastern Economic Review: "They Will Not Go Away."

07/18/2002

Far Eastern Economic Review

THEY WILL NOT GO AWAY. More than three years after Falun Gong burst onto China's political stage by [appealing for justice to] the leadership of Chinese government in Beijing, the group is proving startlingly immune to government efforts to eradicate it. In recent months it has [resisted] Beijing's suppression in a series of daring [...] broadcasts on the state's tightly controlled television network.

Over 600 Armed Police from Harbin Ransack Homes and Arrest Practitioners in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province

(Clearwisdom.net)

In April 2002, the "610 Office" launched the "Specialized Taskforce Committee" in Harbin City, which marked the start of another round of persecution of Dafa practitioners in Heilongjiang Province.