(Clearwisdom.net September 30, 2003)

Mr. Zhao Yong, age 32, was a resident of Jinshan Township, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province. He started practicing Falun Dafa in 1995, and strove to conduct himself according to "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance." Since July 20, 1999, Jiang and his followers have been persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners on a large scale. His parent and older brother were illegally detained and sent to labor camps one after another. He was also arrested by local police as a key practitioner and sent to a brainwashing class. He escaped, and became destitute and homeless in order to avoid being unlawfully arrested at his home. Some malicious people from the local government and police searched for him for over ten days and ransacked his home several times. His home's furniture and door were violently broken by this evil gang. In April 2002, Zhao Yong was arrested at a Falun Dafa material site in Chengdu City by police from the Jinjiang District Station. He was detained in the Pi County Detention Center. Because he was very steadfast and never renounced his faith, he was illegally sentenced to ten years of prison in March 2003, by the Jinjiang District Court, which is under the control of the Chengdu City "610 Office" and the Bazhong City "610 Office."

September 7, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

Etouwan Brainwashing Center in Qiaokou District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province cost nearly one million yuan to construct. It is a base specifically used to persecute Dafa practitioners. In June 2002, Qiaokou District's "610 Office" (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems) decided to increase the "transformation" (meaning to force practitioners to give up their belief) intensity, so they have since selected the so-called "elite torturers" from the district to reinforce the brainwashing class. In the classes, these people openly call themselves local thugs and evil heads sent by Satan. When persecuting Dafa practitioners they are more base, deceitful and cruel than anyone before them. The assistant director of the "610 Office," Xie Xiaofeng was appointed Party secretary of the brainwashing center. Xie Xiaofeng has authorised the team leader, Li Wei, to use any means to "transform" Dafa practitioners. Before coming to Etouwan Brainwashing Centre, Li Wei had graduated from the police academy and worked in the Public Safety Department, where he had viciously beaten many innocent people, often to the point of disability. Now in persecuting Dafa practitioners he uses all kinds of vicious methods and persecutes them inhumanely. He has even screamed insanely, "Once you are in this class, don't think about getting out through me if you aren't transformed. Not unless you are dead."

(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Yu Xiulan, 60 years old, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Dayangshu Town, E Banner of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. For being a Dafa practitioner, she was illegally detained in the Baoanzhao Women's Prison, where she was locked in solitary confinement. During her detention she initiated a hunger strike lasting over 50 days, but the prison police still did not release her. She died on December 22, 2002.