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Today’s Articles — April 19, 2004

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Practitioner Ms. Zhang Lanfen of Laiyang City Is Unlawfully Held in a Mental Hospital

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Lanfen, 40 years old, is a resident of Dazhuangzi Village, Jiangzhuang Town, Laiyang City, Shandong Province. Ms. Zhang has been practicing Falun Dafa for many years. Since July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime began a campaign to slander and persecute Falun Dafa. Ms. Zhang has been illegally detained by her local town government on three different occasions. She was fined a total of 5,700 yuan [500 yuan is equal to the average monthly salary of an urban worker in China]. Ms. Zhang's cassette recorder and Falun Dafa books have been confiscated.

High School Student Is Expelled and Jailed, Other Practitioners Arrested

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Conghui, an 18-year-old student at Xuanhua First High School in Chicheng County, Hebei Province, was "urged to drop out" right before the opening of the "Two National Conferences" (1) in 2004, simply because she wrote a note to a boy, saying "Please remember Falun Dafa is good." On February 24, Ms. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was arrested and sent to jail, then taken to a brainwashing class in Zhangjiakou City. The authorities threatened to send her to a forced labor camp, causing her family a great deal of anxiety. This was the second incident in which these local authorities deprived a youngster of the right to a proper education in China. In 2001, they illegally jailed a 16-year-old female high school student for over seven months.

The Pre-Sentence Experiences of a Female Engineer in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Yanrong, 41, was employed by the Chengdu Airplane Industry Group as a general craft shop engineer. For practicing Falun Gong, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to nine years imprisonment in February 2003.