Facts of the Persecution

• Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Yaping Tortured to Death
• The Situation of Falun Gong Practitioners Detained at the Zhongba Forced Labor Camp in Guizhou Province During the Last Two Years
• Head Covered with Multiple Plastic Bags--A Falun Dafa Practitioner Is Beat, Kicked, and Shocked in Fusong County Detention Center
• Practitioners Tortured in Jiutai Labor Camp
• The Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province
• Boli County, Heilongjiang Province Extorted a Total of 670,000 Yuan from Practitioners

Practitioners Exchange Insights and Experiences

• Heartening Days, Cherished Memories -- Remembering Teacher's Lectures in Jinan
• Clarifying the Truth in Chinatown, New York City
• Clarifying the Truth to Lawyers in China
• The Merciful and Pure Sounding Xiao (A Vertical Chinese Bamboo Flute)

News and Activities from Around the World

• Series of Photos: Startling Tortures
• New York Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Participate in Community Parade (Photos)
• Photo Report: Colorado Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in Park County Parade
• France: Explaining the Facts about Falun Gong in Marseilles and Commemorating Fellow Practitioners who have been Persecuted to Death (Photos)
• Taiwan: Report on the 2004 Taipei Seniors Sports and Health Conference (Photos)
• Boston, USA: Practitioners Win Best Art Design Award in Dorchester Day Parade

News from China

• Latest News from China - May 27, 2004
• People Who Persecute Falun Dafa Receive Karmic Retribution
• 107 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void

(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Yaping from Chengde City, Hebei Province was twice sent to the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp in Baoding City, Hebei Province. Her second term lasted less than six months. She became paralyzed and incontinent from torture at the labor camp in January 2004. She was released and passed away on May 9, 2004.

Wang Yaping was 47 years old and lived in the Shuangqiao District, Chengde City, Hebei Province. She used to suffer from bone cancer and liver cancer. In 1995, she began practicing Dafa and all her illnesses were cured. On January 1, 2001, she went to Beijing to validate Dafa and was sentenced to two years of forced labor. Lu Feng and Liu Mingcheng, heads of the Shuangqiao Police Department National Security Division, sent her to the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp in Baoding City where she was cruelly tortured, both physically and mentally. The perpetrators shocked her with electric batons, and otherwise tortured her and forced her to do slave labor. They also didn't allow her to sleep. She held a hunger strike. The perpetrators knocked out two of her teeth. Her weight dropped from 180 jin to 100 jin (1 jin = 1.1 lbs). After her release in October 2002, she continued to clarify the Dafa truth and distributed flyers in the city.

In June 2003 when she was distributing flyers, Lu Feng, head of the Shuangqiao Police Department National Security Division, arrested and sent her to the Luzhazigou "610 Office" to be brainwashed. Ms. Wang persisted in Dafa practice, however, was sentenced to two years of forced labor and was later sent to the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp. In January 2004, her lower body became paralyzed and she became incontinent. She also lost sight in one eye. Under this situation, the labor camp authorities told her family to take her home. She passed away on May 9, 2004.

(Clearwisdom.Net)

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Teng Jianjun from Guiyang City was persecuted by policemen Huang Xianyue, Pan Zhong, and Yang Renshou. They beat and cursed Teng in the Sixth Grand Team during August of 2002.

Falun Gong practitioner Zhong Dagang from Jinsha City was persecuted by

policemen Zhao Lingxiao and Ren Aijun. They coerced some drug-addicts into taking turns persecuting Mr. Zhong in the First Grand Team during September of 2002.

Falun Gong practitioner Nie Chaoliang from Zunyi City was persecuted by the

drug addicts Zheng Junying from Guiyang City, Xu Hongjiang from Guiyang City, Jiang Jifu from Zunyi City, and Ye Houzhong from Anshun City in 2002. They took turns watching Mr. Nie to keep him from falling asleep. They also beat Mr. Nie and injured him.

Falun Gong practitioner Wang Zhongyao from Jinsha City was persecuted by

Tu Zhongjiu, the chief of the Second Team in the Fifth Grand Team. He ordered inmates Luo Yongzhong from Zunyi City, and Chen Bingbing from Guiyang City to brutally persecute Mr. Wang for two months.

Falun Gong practitioner Lu Yanlun from Bijie City was persecuted. Following the orders of some policemen, inmate Chen Haitao and others beat Mr. Lu and injured him in August of 2002.

Falun Gong practitioner Song Junping from Dujun City was persecuted constantly during September 2002 by some policemen and drug addicts, causing him to have a back injury.

Falun Gong practitioner Wang Peiyin from Zunyi City was persecuted. In December of 2002, inmates Shu Xinhua and Ye Houzhong, both from Anshun City, took off Mr. Wang's clothes and beat him until he was injured.

In September of 2002, policemen Xu Fayuan, Li Jiming, Pan Zhong, and others beat Mr. Min Jie from Duyun City in a guardhouse of the Sixth Team and broke his sternum.

One day in 2003 at the Second Team of the Fifth Grand Team, policeman Xu Fayuan asked some drug-addicts to tie up Mr. Li Minjia from Zunyi City with thin ropes and then beat him brutally.

Falun Gong practitioner Wu Renhui was persecuted in July of 2003. At the Second Team of the Fifth Grand Team, inmates Chen Haitao from Anshun City, Wang Chaoyang from Guiyang City, Jin Guohua from Guiyang City, and Li Fei from Zunyi City, beat Mr. Wu in turns following policeman Huang Xianyue's orders. Mr. Wu was injured.

Falun Gong practitioner Chen Yun from Guiyang City was persecuted in March of 2004.

At the Second Team of the Fifth Grand Team, the police demanded that drug addict Luo Yongzhong tie Mr. Chen with thin ropes. Luo Yongzhong then dragged Mr. Chen on the sports ground during the entire day and night.

One day in 2002, policeman Guo (first name unknown) beat Mr. Liu Zhe from Tongzi City with fire-tongs and injured his face.

Some Falun Gong practitioners not mentioned above were also persecuted.

The following is the contact information for the responsible people and departments:

The First Team of the Fifth Grand Team police Huang Xianyue, and Chen Ge

The Second Team of the Fifth Grand Team police Tu Zhongjiu, Li Jiming and Xu Fayuan

The Third Team of the Fifth Grand Team police Pan Zhong, Li Jiliang, and Yang Renshou

The Fifth Grand Team Chief Song Xuefei

Discipline Section Chief Liu Yirui

Labor Camp Director Qian Qingnan

Zip code: 551419

Note: We recently learned that Falun Gong practitioners Luo Laihua, Zhao Peng, and Lei Guoting were sent to the Zhongba Labor Camp by the Xiaohe police and are suffering persecution there.

(Clearwisdom.net)

According to inside reports from the public security department, the police of Fusong County, Jilin Province, abducted a male Falun Dafa practitioner in his 30s, who had been forced to leave his home. He was reported to the authorities by some misguided persons while he posted truth-clarifying materials, and he is now being held in the Fusong County Detention Center.

It was also revealed that because this practitioner resisted the persecution and did not reveal his name, he was cruelly tortured by the town and county Political Security Section. The police covered his head with multiple plastic bags (this kind of torture can cause suffocation and death), struck and kicked him, and also shocked him with electric batons. They used the most savage methods to torture him. As a result, this practitioner's eyes are now inflamed and swollen, and his auditory system is badly damaged, to the degree that he can almost not hear a sound. Yet the persecution of this practitioner still continues. His health condition is in a severe state, and it worries us greatly.

We call on people seeking justice from all walks of life to help rescue this Falun Dafa practitioner.

Gao Feng, Director of Fusong County Public Security Bureau: 86-439-6212815, 86-439-6212409, 86-13943953068, 86-439-8960246
Office of Deputy Director: 86-439-6213011, 86-439-6212854, 86-439-6211155, 86-439-212586
Qiu Yuan, Director of Legal Section of Public Security Bureau: 86-439-6212388, 86-13804499843
Zhang Aimin, Director of Political Security Section of the Public Security Bureau: 86-439-6214785, 86-13704490785
Political Security Section of the Public Security Bureau: 86-439-6211203
Office of Captain of Criminal Police Brigade: 86-439-6218704
Detention Center: 86-439-6212323, 86-439-6211787
Office of Director Town Public Security Sub-Bureau: 86-439-6212988
Office of Deputy Director of Town Public Security Sub-Bureau: 86-439-6220315
Office of Captain of Criminal Police Brigade: 86-439-6211014
Criminal Police Squadron: 86-439-6220264

(Clearwisdom.net) Guards at the Jiutai Labor Camp in Jilin Province have been cruelly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners since they began detaining them. To the outside, they claimed that their policy was "Education, Reform, and Salvation," however they were actually following the policies of Jiang. Namely, "It doesn't matter if you kill a Falun Gong practitioner," and "those who are killed can be counted as suicide."

In March and April of 2002, to achieve the rate of "reform" assigned by their superiors, the Jiutai Labor Camp used violence to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their belief. The methods of torture they used included shocking the practitioners with as many as 6 electric-shock batons simultaneously, beating them with plastic pipes, kicking their heads, chest and back, etc. During that two-month period, Dafa practitioner Sun Shizhong from Songyuan City was beaten to death by the detained criminals under the instigation of the political instructor, Gao Ke.

Since October 2003, the labor camp has illegally extended the sentences of numerous Dafa practitioners. The Dafa practitioners whose sentences have been extended include: Liu Guangrong from Jilin City, Bai Ruisong from Dehui, Wang Zhihui from Shangzhi City in Heilongjiang Province, Song Youzhi from Jilin City, Guo Yanxiang from Jiutai, Liu Zhenli from Tumen, Zhang Wenjun from Wangqing, Chen Ji from Shulan, Cheng Hongyuan from Jilin City, Zhang Jingshou from Longjing, Zhou Xinghai from Yanbian, Dong Guangwen from Huinan, Zhou Junzhu from Jilin City, Jiang Wei from Jilin City, Jin Fengxue from Shulan, Wang Kai from Jilin City, Zhu Zhaoshui from Shulan, Zhu Dechen from Daan City, Hao Jingchun and Liu Guangzhi from Jilin City, Liu Changyou from Jilin, Li Xin and Mou Changlin from Zhaonan, Shao Changpu from Fuyu, Jiang Lin and Jin Junjie from Longjing, Sun Liwen from Dalian, Wang Yingjia from Wangqing, Lu Xiaodong from Gongzhuling, and Zhang Jinguang from Shulan.

Since March 2004, guards at the labor camp have also been fabricating documents and cheating practitioners because authorities there agreed to pay them 400 Yuan for "reforming" a practitioner. The guards first took fingerprints of the illegally detained practitioners, telling them that they would be released for doing so. Then they made fake documents of "reform" with the practitioners' fingerprints on them.

Sometimes the practitioners were forced to fingerprint fabricated materials. When Dafa practitioner Jin Junjie refused to do this, the guards directed other detainees to beat him violently. Jin struck his head against the window to protest the persecution. Later, he was put into a small cell for two days. Jin was still handcuffed when he was released.

Practitioners protested their sentences being extended and requested unconditional release. But deputy director of the labor camp, Wang Qinghe, and administration section chief Zheng Hailing ordered prison police to handcuff these practitioners and jailed them in small cells. The practitioners who were sent to small cells include: Liu Guangzhi, Dong Guangwen, Bai Ruisong, Zhou Junzhu, Wang Xibao, Shan Fuying, Zhao Litang, Wang Shaofu, Yan Guohen, Shao Changpu. While being detained in the small cells, practitioners were given only a small piece of steamed bun and some soup to eat every day. Each day practitioners were handcuffed and forced to sit for 16 or 17 hours.

The following are the recent facts of persecution in the labor camp:

1. On the evening of May 1, 2004, Dafa practitioner Wang Jiaolong was called out for a talk with political instructor, Zhang Guoxin, and a team leader, Wang Weibin. Wang Jiaolong refused to co-operate with them, so they took out an electric baton and intended to shock him. When they found out the baton was not charged, however, they started to beat and kick his head with their fists and feet. Wang Jiaolong was beaten to the ground and his eyes bled. Because there was a chance their crime could have been exposed, they detained Wang in a separate place, not letting him have contact with any other people.
2. Gao Dequan, 63, was persecuted to the point that he developed high blood pressure (190/120) and had a stroke. Half of his body was paralyzed. Still, the guards forced him to read books slandering Falun Dafa. After Gao refused, a guard named Guo Yiping forced him to sit in a fixed posture for hours. Later, a guard named Zhang Ming ordered him to sit against a wall for an even longer time as punishment.
3. Dafa practitioner Sun Zhangang was deprived of sleep for a whole night. The second morning he was still forced to work. The guards also ordered 4 detainees to keep Dafa practitioners Zhu Yujun and Zhu Dechen from sleeping.
4. Dafa practitioner Shang Fuying was imprisoned in a small cell because she read articles written by Teacher. After she was sent back to her regular cell, three guards, Li Chengzhou, Zhang Mingcai, and Guo Yiping, beat and shocked her with a 500 thousand volt electric baton.
5. Guard Guo Yiping asked Sun Daqing and Ding Shuangren to put a copy of Teacher's article under Dafa practitioner Shao Changpu's bed. Afterwards, they brought a false charge against him saying he had articles written by Teacher. On May 4, 2004, Guo Yiping called Shao Changpu into the office and handcuffed him. When Shao said that this was illegal, they put him into a small cell. Seven days later guards Li Chengzhou, Zhang Mingcai, and Guo Yiping tortured Shao saying they found an article under his bed. Shao was terribly wounded. Afraid that the crime would be exposed, they detained Shao individually for 3 more days. They also kept a tight surveillance on Shao to block the news of his torture.
6. Dafa practitioner Zhao Litang was put into a small cell for writing a letter about human rights abuse to the head of the labor camp. To prevent the facts from being released, they transferred Shao to another location.
7. A newly established labor team was given the task of welding iron cables without any safety protection, and the glasses of Dafa practitioner Liu Guangzhi were damaged by a spark. Liu strongly protested the maltreatment and was, thus, sent to a small cell. He was later transferred to the Huanxiling Labor Camp in Jilin City.
8. To prevent those practitioners whose detentions had been extended from opposing the persecution, they transferred them to other labor camps.
9. Since last October, the practitioners were given moldy rice as their main food. Moreover, they had their meals reduced from 2 meals a day to only one meal a day. The dishes the detainees bought for visiting family members, however, were very expensive--more than 30 Yuan an item. In addition, the portions were only 1/3 or ¼ the normal size. The shop in the labor camp is monopolized by the authorities, and the goods there are mostly fake. Still, prices are several times higher than normal. In addition, they limit the number of family visits and prevent the detainees from revealing what they know to the outside world.

In November of 2003, the higher-ups of the labor camp came to inspect the camp and ask if the labor camp provided meat at least once a week. No one dared tell the truth. In fact, they rarely provided meat all year.

These persecution facts are only a small part of the persecution. More facts are yet to be investigated in the future. We hope all kind people will pay attention to what is happening in the Jiutai Labor Camp, and that they will denounce the persecution while supporting justice.

Since Jiang's regime began the suppression of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, the staff of the Political Security Offices in Huzhou City Police Station and "610 Offices" [1] actively followed Jiang's suppression policies. They used various ways to physically and psychologically persecute people who practiced Falun Gong in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. They abducted practitioners many times to the so-called "Law Study Class" in Gumeishan, Huzhou City. The class was actually a brainwashing session which held practitioners for forced brainwashing and persecution of mind and body. A partial list of persecution cases follows:

Mr. Ji Jianwei, a Falun Gong practitioner, was formerly a policeman in Huzhou City Police Station. He started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. In 1999 he was awarded for his outstanding performance at work. After July 20, 1999, because Mr. Ji continued to practice Falun Gong, his award was revoked and he was dismissed from his job. In 2001, Mr. Ji was detained at Huzhou City Detention Center on criminal charges. Since Mr. Ji was a policeman himself, many policemen in the detention center knew him. They all wondered why an outstanding policeman who used to catch all kinds of criminals was detained there. So officers from Huzhou "610 Office" purposely transferred Mr. Ji to a detention center in Changxing, Zhejiang province. He suffered many kinds of torture and intensive forced-labor there.

After being dismissed from the police station, Mr. Ji later found a job in a quarry doing heavy labor. He had to carry stones on his shoulders to make a living. However, the officers from Huzhou "610 Office" found his boss and forced him to fire Mr. Ji. Huzhou City Police Station arranged temporary work for him in a cafeteria in Huzhou Driving School, to enable continued surveillance.

Ms. Ji Peichu, Mr. Ji Jianwei's older sister, is a nurse in Hangzhou Railroad Hospital, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. She was arrested by the Huzhou Police Station when she was distributing Falun Gong truth-clarification materials in Huzhou. She was arrested again by the national security brigade in Xiaoshan Branch of Hangzhou Police Station at the end of March 2004, when she was distributing truth-clarification material in Xianshan, Hangzhou. She was illegally sent to a labor camp in May 2004. She is currently imprisoned and being persecuted in Moganshan Female Labor Camp.

Mr. Ji Jianwei's mother is also a Falun Gong practitioner. The authorities in Huzhou City even intentionally created conflict among Mr. Ji's family members. For example, they arranged Mr. Ji's older brother to be vice-director of the so-called "Huzhou anti-cult association" (an organization formed to persecute Falun Gong). They arranged for another older sister of Mr. Ji to be in charge of persecuting Falun Gong in a certain residential area. They tried to create hatred among family members and to tear them apart.

Mr. Shen Changfu, 31 years old, is an English teacher in Huzhou No. 6 Middle School, Huzhou, Zhejiang province. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. After Jiang's regime began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Chaoyang local police and Sixth Street local police in Huzhou have frequently harassed him with telephone calls and knocking on his door at midnight. Mr. Shen went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in December 2000. He was arrested at Tiananmen Square and illegally detained for a month. During his detention, he was cuffed on a plank bed for many days because he spread Falun Gong and copied Falun Gong articles by hand. Bound to the bed, he was forced to defecate and urinate in his pants. Later he was illegally detained in the local Chaoyang police station for seven days. The police threatened to dismiss him from his job and send him to a labor camp. Mr. Shen was forced to write a statement contrary to his belief, and suffered a tormented conscience for doing so.

Ms. Dai Jufen, in her 50's, is an employee in Huzhou First Clothing Factory. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1995. After July 20, 1999, Huzhou police and local Longquan police subpoenaed her and confiscated her property. At midnight on August 12, 2000, the police knocked on her door to harass her. Ms. Dai was arrested on October 6, 2000 in another practitioner's home and was detained for 24 hours in the local Feiying police station. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in January 2001 and was illegally imprisoned in a labor camp for two years. She was forcibly brainwashed and tortured in the labor camp. On August 20, 2003, she was forcibly abducted by the Huzhou "610 Office" to Gumeishan Brainwashing Class in Huzhou. She lost all her personal freedom, including freedom of speech there. Every day she was forced to watch TV programs that slandered Falun Gong. The guards tortured her spiritually by threatening that they would send her to a labor camp again, not allow her daughter to go to college, deprive her of her retirement pension, or send her to a mental hospital to suffer more torture.

Ms. Fei Aizhen, 68 years old, is a retiree. She started practicing Falun Gong in January 1997. Jiang's regime began the suppression of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. In January 2001, Ms. Fei went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested and detained in a police station in Beijing. Her home was confiscated. She was later transferred to a local police station and detained there. In July 2001, she was forcibly abducted to Gumeishan Brainwashing Class in Huzhou. She lost her personal freedom, and was forced to watch programs that slandered Falun Gong every day.

Mr. Li Jun, about 50 years old, is an agronomist in Huzhou Agriculture Bureau. He started to practice Falun Gong in 1995. After Jiang's regime began the illegal suppression of Falun Gong in July 20, 1999, Huzhou City police and local Aishan police frequently harassed him with telephone calls and knocking on his door at midnight. Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in December 2000 and was arrested at Tiananmen Square. The policemen brutally beat him. They kicked his ankles, trampled his knees, kneed him in the groin, and punched his head. Huzhou police later transferred him to the local Feiying police station (formerly Longquan Police Station). Because he refused to sign a statement denouncing Falun Dafa, the police pulled his hair, slammed him against a wall, and forced him to kneel down. He was illegally detained for a month. The police threatened to send him to a labor camp, to dismiss him from his job, to forbid his children from going to school and so on. In August 2003, Huzhou "610 Office" again forcibly abducted him to Gumeishan Brainwashing Class in Huzhou. He was forced to watch programs that slandered Falun Gong every day. The guards tortured him spiritually by threatening to dismiss him from his job, to send him to a labor camp, to send him to a mental hospital and so on.

Mr. Shen Guigen was abducted by the "610 Office" and his work place in August 2003 and sent to the so-called "Law Study Class." This was actually a brainwashing class that persecuted practitioners' mind and body. Mr. Shen was tortured in the brainwashing class for nearly 40 days. In the class, he not only lost his personal freedom, he was also threatened and intimidated every day.

The practitioners who were illegally sent to labor camps in Huzhou include:

Mr. Liu Han'guang, 2 ½ years in labor camp

Wang Wei, 2 ½ years in labor camp

Ms. Dai Jufen, 2 years in labor camp

Ms. Fan Yunying, 2 years in labor camp

Ms. Shen Li, 2 years in labor camp

Huang Qiuhua, 3 years in labor camp, Anji, Huzhou

Ms. Shen Xiaofeng, 2 years in labor camp, Deqing, Huzhou

Ms. Lin Bixiu, 2 years in labor camp, Changxing, Huzhou

Jiang Xiaoqiu, twice in labor camp, 1 year for the 1^st time, and 3 years for the 2^nd time, Anji, Huzhou

Jiang Xiaosen, 3 years in labor camp, Anji, Huzhou

Practitioners who were illegally retained include Mr. Li Jun, Shao Deying, Ms. Li Lixiang, Ms. Zhang Gendi, Mr. Shen Changfu, Mr. Zhao Guosi, Mr. Li Qiang, and more.

Organizations and persons responsible for persecuting practitioners:

Country code: 86

Zhang Xiyan, secretary of Political and Judiciary Committee in Huzhou city
Yi Fangjian, staff in political security office in Huzhou City Police Station, and team lead in "610 Office," 1390-672-3919 (cell phone), 572-206-0143 (home phone)
Gu Longzhai, staff in political security office in Huzhou City Police Station and "610 Office." Home address is: Room 305, Entrance 3, Building 162, Jishan Xin Cun, Huzhou city
Yang Yueming, Head of Huzhou "610 Office," 572-211-6021 (office phone), 1370-572-3228 (cell phone)
Chen Qirong, staff in Huzhou "610 Office," 1396-729-8008 (cell phone)
Zhang Ping'an, staff in Huzhou "610 Office," 1333-683-9689 (cell phone)
Zhu Baihua, secretary of Political and Judiciary Committee in Anji county, Huzhou city, 572-502-3254 (office phone), 1350-582-3038 (cell phone)
Mi Guimei, Labor camp section of Huzhou Judicial Bureau, 1395-724-5068 (Cell), 572-210-0596 (home)
Cai Hong, Huzhou Judicial Bureau, 572-239-8985
Ma Huocai, Huzhou Judical Bureau, 1305-998-2825 (cell phone)
Jiang Chengbin, secretary of Political and Judiciary Committee in Wuxing district, Huzhou city, 1350-572-8162 (cell phone)
Chu Bailin, assistant secretary of Political and Judiciary Committee in Wuxing district, Huzhou city, 1390-572-9978 (cell phone)
Chai Qinghua, Changxing Zhicheng police station, 1358-720-3011 (cell phone)

May 22, 2004

[1] "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.

(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20, 1999, the authorities in Boli County, Heilongjiang Province have extorted a great amount of money from local practitioners. According to incomplete statistics, the total amount is 670,841 yuan. (1)

(Clearwisdom.net) When Teacher's birthday came, it reminded me of the days when I attended Teacher's Fa lectures and saw him every day.

In January 1994, I was studying at a university in Jinan City, Shandong Province. My mom came to my aunt's home in Jinan for a visit, waiting for the end of the semester to go home together with me. One day after dinner when we were taking a walk, I saw a piece of paper stuck on a wall beside the road. It was not eye-catching at all. On the paper was an announcement saying that the Falun Gong Teacher would come to Jinan City to hold a Fa lecture series and people could sign up for it. That was the first time I heard Teacher's name, and I was full of inexplicable curiosity. At that time there were already many practitioners from out of town staying in the city's apartments. We casually entered a room to have a look and saw several people talking to each other, one of them had in hand a copy of "The Window of Literature" and on the cover was a picture of Teacher wearing the practice-suit and sitting on a lotus in meditation. Teacher's appearance looked familiar and it seemed that I had met him somewhere before. Among the people talking, one of them said he had already attended Teacher's lecture series 12 times. I was surprised upon hearing this. With this feeling of surprise and curiosity, my mom and I signed our names.

The place for the first class in Jinan City was the small auditorium of the Shandong Young Cadres' College, on Jingshi Road in the Lixia District. There were several hundred people who attended. According to some practitioners, this was the smallest class Teacher had ever taught. However, Teacher did the same thing as he did for other classes. He gave nine lectures in nine consecutive days and the tenth day was for answering questions. The classes ran for two hours per day and the fee was only 50 Yuan for the whole lecture series.

Upon hearing the first lecture, my mom and I were attracted deeply by the Fa, with a feeling that we had finally found the high level Master that we had been looking for. At that time, my mom and I were learning qigong from a qigong master who had told me many times that he would foster me well and give me separate training, and so on. Then, I developed an everyday person's idea, thinking that I would let that qigong master down if I learned Falun Gong. On the other hand, I felt the Fa that Teacher was talking was too good to just let it slip by. So, I was in a dilemma. (Then, I was still regarding Teacher as a common qigong master, without realizing that Teacher was spreading Dafa.) My mom said, "You'd better ask Teacher yourself." Then, during the break between Teacher's lecture and teaching the movements, I ran backstage. According to the experience in the past when I contacted other qigong masters, I thought that Teacher must have been sitting down drinking tea and having a good rest in a small room backstage. However, when I looked in through the window, I saw only two workers there chatting. Then I looked for Teacher between the theater curtains, checking them one by one. When I suddenly raised my head I was shocked. Between two broad curtains, Teacher was standing there quietly, with his two hands crossed on his abdomen, and his head a little lowered. After talking for two hours continuously, our Teacher was standing there quietly, without a cup of water, without a helper, without even a chair to sit on!

I stopped in front of Teacher and He quietly looked at me. In that moment, I felt that Teacher was of great stature and I myself had been covered completely by Teacher's bright light. Noise from practitioners down stage during the break suddenly disappeared and my mind seemed empty. My many words prepared well before turned into a single sentence: "Teacher, I don't know which one I should learn." Still with his head a little lowered, Teacher then looked at me and said also a single sentence: "It'd be best if you learn Falun Gong." Without any explanation, Teacher gave me only this simple sentence. However, all those worrying problems in my heart were suddenly gone just like a cloud of smoke. For some reason I couldn't explain, my heart was full of happiness and joy, as though I had got a guarantee and recognition. With a "thanks to Teacher," I was gone with boundless joy. There was then a single idea in my heart, "I will stick to this one." From that time on, the idea of "following Teacher" has been like a seed planted in my heart and I have never thought of giving it up.

With fewer in attendance, Teacher would come among practitioners when teaching the movements and correct their gestures one by one. Sometimes he would chat with practitioners.

After the lectures ended, the last day we were able to have pictures taken with Teacher. Early in the morning, I stood before the front door watching cars coming and going, guessing which car would bring Teacher there. It seemed that Teacher suddenly appeared on the other side of the road and came up alone. During the picture taking, Teacher just quietly waited. Whenever some practitioners got ready, he would go there and stand among them. No matter who wanted to take a picture, Teacher never refused. No matter where Teacher went, he was always the tallest and greatest.

It was already the end of the year when this class finished. However, Teacher went to Dongying in Shandong Province to hold Fa lectures, and he didn't go home for the New Year celebration.

In June of 1994, I attended the second class held in Jinan City. This time it was held in the Huangting Gym on Jiefang Road in Lixia District. More than four thousand people attended and this time Teacher's lectures included the most content among all the classes. At that time, my understanding was poor. After the first class, I only knew the Fa was good but I had not remembered many key points, such as "practicing only one cultivation way" and so on. I even thought what Teacher taught was Buddhist qigong and I went very often to Buddhist temples, to the library to read Zen books and other Buddhist scriptures. In the beginning of the second class, Teacher talked about this problem, I felt that it was spoken just for me. When Teacher was saying that the Zen sect is going down a dead end, I didn't really understand it. So, one day before the lecture, when Teacher was standing before the front door of the gym, I even went up to ask Teacher, "The emptiness taught by the Zen sect seems very reasonable. Why is it bad?" Teacher then was very serious, waving his hand, he said to me: "Put all of them down, put them down!" After hearing this, I thought, anyway, what Teacher said must be right. Later, while I studied Zhuan Falun reading the section about the Zen sect, I suddenly understood it. Looking back now, I really feel shameful for the question I raised.

Teacher said, "you will realize in the future that this period of time is extremely precious." (Zhuan Falun, First Lecture). Whenever I recall that piece of time my heart is full of happiness.

To conclude I would like to recite one of Teacher's poems to encourage everyone.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Greetings Master!

Greetings Everybody!

I am here on behalf of several fellow practitioners who have been setting up booths in Chinatown in New York City, to share our experiences in clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to the Chinese people. Since July 20, 1999, some Chinese media in our area have frequently published untrue articles that slander Falun Gong and deceive their readers. The Chinese Consulate has also attacked and slandered Falun Gong practitioners. They created propaganda and got involved in the local communities, deepening the misunderstandings and inciting hatred toward Falun Gong.

With our firm belief in Dafa and Master we decided to step out and let people know the truth about Falun Gong. Carrying the truth-clarification materials with us, we went to subway stations and the busiest streets to distribute them. To make sure we have good effects, we studied when would be the best time. We discovered that in the morning when people rush to work, most of them would not take the materials. When people leave work they would most likely accept our materials as they have time while waiting for the train or on the train.

We do not stop distributing materials even when it rains or snows. On Sundays several of us display posters and distribute materials in Chinatown. We also take turns practicing the exercises.

At first, the vendors nearby had misunderstandings toward us. They drove us away, cursed us, and even spit on us and kicked our display boards, saying that the information on the boards was not true and that we were damaging the image of the Chinese people. Some even walked toward us, stared at us from the head to the feet, cursed us and then left. Facing the misunderstandings and knowing the fact that Chinatown is the focus of the Chinese communities in New York City, we asked ourselves, "How do we do better to help people learn the truth?" Master said:

Through studying the Fa and sharing experiences, four of us who do not need to go to work started to take turns to display truth clarification pictures and distribute materials five days a week in Chinatown. On weekends, other practitioners do it. We overcame many difficulties and obstacles and finally we are got a permit from the police to establish a truth clarification booth on Canal Street, the busiest street in Chinatown. Every day there would be two practitioners there displaying and distributing truth clarification materials. On Saturdays we all go to the Chinese consulate to send forth righteous thoughts.

On the noisy and busy Canal street people can hear from a distance the music of "Pudu" and "Jishi" and other music made by Dafa disciples. Once there was a middle-aged man standing beside us quietly. We handed him the materials and he asked us where to buy the tape. He thought the music very touching and harmonious. We told him that currently he could not find them in the stores. A while later he came back with a new blank tape he just bought and asked a practitioner to record "Pudu" and "Jishi" for him. He said that he would pick it up next time. He was very happy and grateful to us. Another time a passer-by accepted our materials and said to us: "I come to Chinatown once every several months. I heard the beautiful music from far away, so I came over. Thank you for letting me know Falun Gong. It is so good." There are many examples like these.

Through continuous Fa study, we also pay attention to our speech and our behaviors, realizing that the purpose of clarifying the truth is to do our best to save beings. We should be compassionate. What we say and what we do should let people know how good Dafa is.

Along with our truth clarification, the environment improved. The vendors nearby became friendly with us. They also accepted our materials and VCDs. Sometimes when some people with deep misunderstandings came to us with anger and talked about the fabrications from the newspaper, we would send forth righteous thoughts, which helped calm them. We would explain patiently that if Jiang did not persecute Falun Gong practitioners in China and kill so many good people, and that if Falun Gong practitioners were not sent to prison, we would not need to stand here in cold or heat to explain the truth to them. It is very comfortable to stay at home. They would calm down, look at the pictures, and even accept the materials and VCDs. Some people come from time to time to see if there are newer editions of our "Qingliu" paper or new VCDs. In order to clarify the truth more effectively several practitioners brought a DVD player to play the truth clarification VCDs at the site, which had a good effect.

In July 2002 we realized that we should clarify the truth in various ways such as to broadcast advertisements through radio stations. It would have a great effect. The cost was significant, but in order for people to quickly learn the truth and call up their conscience and kindness, even 1, 2 or 3 times are helpful.

We went to a radio station. After we explained our purpose, their attitude changed at once. They gave us many requirements, such as they would need approval from above. They asked us to leave our name, address, and telephone number and said they would notify us later, so that we would leave. We went to another radio station. When we arrived at the office the person in charge had just left for the day. They told us to come back the next day. We went there the next day and explained that we wanted an advertisement about Falun Gong. The person in charge said that he would not broadcast anything about the sensitive topic of Falun Gong. What should we do? One practitioner suggested we put our advertisement in a free weekly magazine published every Saturday. When people get the free magazine they would see truth clarification materials. We found a relatively good magazine -- Weekly Programs. When we explained our purpose to the owner, he showed support to us. The magazine has a distribution volume of 20,000 per week. He gave us a discount, saying that he also wanted to do good deeds. We asked him to put the truth clarification materials closer to the front paper and not to mix them with bad content. He agreed. One practitioner was responsible for selecting one or two articles from Clearwisdom that were related to the topics people ask about when we clarify the truth, and send them the magazine. Once one practitioner's neighbor said to her: "I read an article from a weekly magazine about Falun Gong. It is very well said, very different from those in the [Chinese language] newspapers." The practitioner was very happy. As long as we clarify the truth, people would use their mind to think. Seeing the good effects, many practitioners from our site joined the project, as well as practitioners from Brooklyn. From 1 edition to 10 editions, it has lasted two years with the support and good cooperation of practitioners.

We also helped to clarify the truth at tourist sites. Two practitioners regularly go to Battery Park to distribute materials to tourists from China. Most of the tourists are on business trips, and are usually the people in charge at work units in China. Their trips usually include visiting the Statue of Liberty. When they stand in line waiting for the tour boat, we hand them materials. When they see that the materials are about Falun Gong, they dare not to take them. Some would accept them and put them in the bags right away, as before they came over they have had meetings warning them not to accept Falun Gong materials. Being isolated and misled by the fabrications made by Jiang Zemin's regime and the media for a long time some of them cursed us and made fun of us. We walked away, thinking: Forget it. These people are so mean and could not be saved. Master says:

Through studying Fa we understood that they are also beings to be saved. It is not accidental that we met them. We should clarify the truth to them with compassion and eliminate the bad thoughts in their minds. Master says:

So we spoke to them, and showed them the Witness publication. We talked to them from the past political movements in China to the persecution of Falun Gong. We also compared China with other countries -- they live in an isolated environment controlled by totalitarians, and we live in a free and democratic country, etc. Their curses dwindled down. Some listened quietly. When they were about to board the boat some extended their hands to ask for materials. They put them in the bags right away. We realized that with a pure and righteous mind, whatever we want to say the words would come out from our mouth. We know that Master is helping us.

We also use the time at night to call and fax to China, clarifying truth to the Chinese people. Many practitioners at the Chinatown practice site mail letters, materials and VCDs in a large amount to China. Master says:

Many tourists from Mainland China will come to Chinatown and pass our booth. They are very surprised to see the pictures. Some stop to look more carefully. One lady was shocked. She told us that she taught English in Beijing, and that she came to visit her family during vacation. In China, Falun Gong related news is broadcast on TV every day, but it is totally different from these pictures. This is the real Falun Gong story. It is wrong that the Chinese government persecutes Falun Gong. She asked us for more materials. She would take them back to China to her students and let them know the truth about Falun Gong.

In late 2002, a friend of the fruit vendor close to our booth came to help him. We talked to her about Falun Gong and gave her some truth clarification materials and VCDs. She gladly accepted them and said that she would definitely watch them at home. Three months later she came to tell us that she just got back from Mainland China. She had shown the materials and VCDs to her former coworkers and told them the truth about Falun Gong. Hearing this, we were so touched. Master says:

Last November she came again and told us that she would go back to Mainland China for three months and she would take some materials and VCDs with her. Several days ago she came again, having just returned from China. She said that her friends and family fought for the materials and 12 VCDs she had taken back, so they had to take turns. They asked her to bring more next time. There are more and more people longing to know the truth.

On one day a while ago it was very cold. Two practitioners at the booth forgot to bring their gloves. A lady passed by. She took some materials, chatted a bit and left. Ten minutes later she came back. She had just bought two pairs of gloves for the practitioners. We were touched and offered her the money, but she would not accept it. Practitioners said that they would not accept the gloves if she would not take the money. She said: "You are wonderful people. Even the vendors did not set up outside on this cold day, but you quietly contribute and forbear just to let people know about Falun Gong. Won't you accept this little appreciation?" After she left, we realized that more and more people are learning the truth.

Over the past nearly five years of Fa-rectification, we continued to set up booths to clarify the truth no matter how cold or hot it was. At the beginning our families did not understand us, friends and relatives thought we were strange, and there were conflicts among practitioners due to different understandings and behaviors, etc. Master says: "the whole process of cultivation is a process of constantly getting rid of human attachments." (Zhuan Falun) We continue to study Fa, measure ourselves with the Fa, look into ourselves and increase our capacity. Master said in "Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference":

Now I get more understanding and support from my family. Some practitioners' family members even help with truth clarification. Their friends and families resumed contact with them, calling them or meeting them for brunch, etc.

Our efforts could not have been sustained without the cooperation of all those at the practice site. We have all contributed quietly. Some practitioners go to the consulate to practice and distribute truth materials, some are responsible for folding fliers, and some set up the booth - everyone cooperates with each other.

Master says in "Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference:"

We still have a lot of shortcomings to be eliminated through Fa study so that we can reach the standards set by the Fa.

To close, we want to share "New Year's Greetings from Master" with everyone:

"On the rest of the journey,

may you fulfill,

with godlike righteous thoughts and righteous actions,

the grand vows you made before history!"

Thank you, Master!

Thank you, everybody!

(Clearwisdom.net) While participating in the Fa-rectification, it is each Dafa disciple's mission to clarify the truth and allow more and more sentient beings to know the truth about Falun Dafa. Going to a lawyer's office with a lawsuit to explain the truth to the professionals in the office is a good way to eliminate all of those lies and propaganda that has poisoned their minds. I have found that there is no worry of how to bring up the topic. You can directly bring up how the persecution affects your family and relatives from the perspective of prison and labor camps. Since you are proposing to create a case, you will naturally have many questions for their consultation, and they will listen very carefully.

Some fellow practitioners and I went to a lawyer's office. We sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the dark minions and rotten ghosts at the door, and then we stepped into the lawyer's office to clarify the truth to him.

The lawyer asked: "What kind of questions do you have?" I told him that my arm was broken because I was beaten in the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun City. I underwent medical treatment when I was released, but I still cannot raise my arms. I have lost the ability to work and I do not have any source of income. I told him in detail about the persecution I personally endured during my stay in the labor camp, thereby letting him know the darkness of the labor camp and the abuses to human rights caused by the Jiang regime's persecution.

In this way I found that I can tell lawyers about the persecution that I myself, my family, my friends, and fellow practitioners have experienced. In this way those lawyers who know the law well can see very clearly how Jiang, the evil head of China, has persecuted kind people who practice "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance."

We have now been to several lawyers' offices. We feel that the effects were extremely good. Since you want to file a lawsuit, the lawyers listen very carefully and patiently while you clarify the truth to them. They also ask you for more information as they try to understand you better. They also tell you to collect evidence and materials needed to file a case against the crime. It is easy for the one who clarifies the truth, as you do not need to worry about how to bring up the topic of the persecution. You can just bring up the topic directly.

I suggest fellow practitioners all over the county go to lawyers in your district and explain the persecution which you, your family, and fellow practitioners around you have experienced. We hope more lawyers will come to know the truth, position themselves well, and choose a bright future.

(Clearwisdom.net) On the second day of the torture exhibit held in Chicago, a practitioner who was in charge of singing performances suggested that I play the xiao, a traditional Chinese bamboo flute that is held vertically. I had learned to play a bamboo flute before; however, it was only in the last two years that I started learning how to play the xiao. I became anxious and fearful at the thought of not be able to play it well. Soon, I realized this was a kind of selfishness. Teacher taught us to clarify the truth with mercy, but I was just thinking of myself. I should have thought how to use music to clarify truth to the world and save the sentient beings because music breaks through language and racial barriers. When the thought of selflessness came to my mind, I no longer felt anxious.

I repeatedly performed the songs "Pu Du (Save Sentient Beings)," "Please Come Sit By My Side," "Predestined Relationship," "De Du (Be Saved)," etc. Gradually, I felt as if time had stopped and I was no longer playing the xiao. It felt like I was explaining the facts of Falun Dafa practitioners being persecuted with my pure heart, explaining the goodness of Falun Dafa, and appealing to the sentient beings not to miss this predestined chance in tens of thousands of years. I felt a huge mercy inside me and could not help but shed tears.

During the break, a practitioner who had not listened to me play the xiao before told me, "You played so well today that I was in tears." Another practitioner told me that her friends were moved by my performance. What is more encouraging is that a practitioner from Washington D.C. told me that he had seen countless golden swords flying out of my xiao towards the evil forces. Sometimes, many swords intertwined to form a gigantic sword targeting the nest of the evil forces. The next day, the practitioner in charge of the singing performances told me her reason in asking me to repeatedly play the xiao was that she had seen a lot of compassion pouring out from the xiao while I was performing.

Teacher said, "Clarifying the truth during the gigantic changes has already become the major way of saving all beings and the world's people, so in doing this, the wisdom that Dafa has given you and the enormous capability that the Fa has provided you with are manifesting." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference")

(Clearwisdom.net) Clearwisdom.net correspondent Chu Tianxing reports -- Since July 20, 1999, when Jiang's regime started persecuting Falun Gong, in China's detention centers, labor camps, and jails, Falun Gong practitioners who persist in their belief have encountered various kinds of inhuman tortures. In the process of the systematic suppression, all of the extraordinarily violent tortures have been vigorously promoted by Jiang's regime. All adopted instruments and methods of torture are common and similar in different jails and labor camps throughout the country.

In order to allow more people to directly visualize and feel the brutality of this persecution, Falun Gong practitioners recently used real people and model demonstrations, as well as paintings, to illustrate some of the tortures experienced by Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Although the demonstrated part of tortures is already appalling, the degree and variety is only a tip of the iceberg compared to what is happening daily in China during the ruthless persecution.

Folding and tightly tying practitioners' bodies and then putting them under a very low-lying wooden bed for as long as several dozen hours. In addition, several people stamp their feet on the bed to add to the suffering.

The Dead person's bed was occasionally used previously for deathrow inmates. Now it is used to torture Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners who have experienced this torture include grandmothers in their 50s or 60s and also unmarried young girls.

People who were tied to the "Dead person's bed" and exposed to others did not only experience the extreme pain as if they were being pulled apart, but they had also to relieve themselves on the bed. They are made to suffer both physically and mentally constantly.

The Shenyang No. 2 Jail even ordered the criminal inmates to tie Dafa practitioners to the "dead person's bed" and then inserted the force-feeding rubber tubes into practitioners' stomachs, and left the tube there without pulling it out. They force-fed practitioners at set times everyday. Many practitioners including Zhang Zhenxue, Bai Mingsheng, Cui Dejun, Li Shangshi, Yan Haizhi and Cong Zhongxiao have experienced this kind of torture.

The situation in Jilin Jail is even more intense. They use iron chains to tightly shackle practitioners' four limbs to the bed and then pulled up the bed to make it vertical so that practitioners' bodies were hanging in the air. Practitioners are tortured this way for 3 or 4 days or even more in a row. As a result, the tortured practitioners' ankles, wrists and other joints were dislocated. If it lasts longer, the tortured person would become handicapped.

When using the "dead person's bed," some police officers even put something under the tortured practitioners' rear ends after tightly tying them to the bed, so as to intensify the stretching effect when the bed was set up vertically and practitioners' bodies were hanging in the air. The police officers then used a hammer to strike on the tortured practitioners' joints until their joints were dislocated.

Force-feeding 2. Practitioners hung up and beaten

Practitioners hung up and beaten

Digging bamboo sticks into practitioners' fingers under fingernails

Folding practitioners and tightly tying them up

Tying practitioners' hands and feet and dragging them along

Confining practitioners in a small iron cell

Cuffing and shackling practitioners in a small cell

(Clearwisdom.net) On Saturday, June 12, 2004, New York Falun Dafa practitioners were invited for the first time to participate in the "Flag Day Parade" hosted by the Brooklyn Spanish Community. The Spanish community is next to the Chinese community and there is another procession composed of Chinese people in the parade: they are from the Brooklyn Chinese Association.

It was a sunny day with gentle breeze. In the entire parade procession, the Falun Gong practitioners' procession was extremely bright and eye-catching. Practitioners holding the banner "Falun Dafa Is Good" led the procession, which was ended with a banner reading "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Wearing yellow T-shirts imprinted with English and Chinese words, "Falun Dafa," "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," and "Stop Persecuting Falun Gong," practitioners looked energetic with smiles on their faces. The songs "Pu Du" and "Ji Shi" composed by Dafa practitioners were played along the route. Spectators watched, cheered, praised and smiled. They were happy for the coming of Falun Dafa. The truth-clarifying materials fell short of demands.

At the parade ending point, different processions took group pictures. Colorful flags were displayed on the tall wall, among which, Dafa banner with words, "Falun Dafa Is Good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" were extremely eye-catching.

A Chinese person was very pleased to watch all of these and accepted the truth-clarifying materials. Another loudly spoke to his cell phone, "Falun Gong!" Some even asked us if we had a performance. The organizers of the Brooklyn Chinese Association looked very serious, but Dafa practitioners' kind and cheerful outlook as well as their age and diverse nationality must have left a deep impression on them as well as spectators.

The parade organizers were very happy for our participation and welcomed us to come back next year. They also invited us to attend the street fair in September.

In the end, Falun Gong practitioners participating in the parade took a group photo and concluded this parade in the song, "Falun Dafa Is Great."

(Clearwisdom.net)

On June 12, Falun Gong practitioners from Colorado participated in the Park County Parade.

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 5, 2004, at the invitation of the French Marseilles International Amnesty Organisation, French practitioners joined the signature collection and other activities held by Amnesty. During the activities, practitioners narrated their experiences of the persecution that they had been subjected to.

When collecting signatures at the harbor during the day, a lot of photos and boards of information were displayed. Many passersby and tourists stopped to look and sign the petition. They wanted to take action to stop the persecution. Some of them asked us for quite a lot of leaflets and other materials as they wanted to distribute them for us.

At night, practitioners held a candlelit vigil at the Chinese Embassy to commemorate all fellow practitioners who have died in this persecution. Practitioners were invited to narrate their experience of being persecuted. Ms Ying Chen, who is currently studying in France, narrated details of the persecution that she was subjected to when she visited her family in Beijing. She was unlawfully arrested and detained, during which time she was subjected to brutal torture and mental harassment, as well as psychiatric abuse. Her account of her experiences made people who were present cry. Hearing what Chen had been through, people realized the extent of the persecution against Falun Gong in China. They called on others to pay close attention to the trampling of human rights in China, and to adopt an effective approach to end the persecution.

After viewing the display boards and the photos of those who died in the persecution, a lot of passersby came to ask us about the truth, send their sympathy and support and said they would like to pass on the truth to more people.

After learning the truth, a couple said, "It is really inconceivable. We cannot imagine how this kind of oppressive torture and persecution could take place in this era!" They also showed their respect and support, encouraged us to keep it up, and presented a symbolic candle lamp to all 980 practitioners who lost their lives in the persecution. The vigil lasted until midnight. We have felt that people are longing to know the truth and want to form a connection with Dafa every time we hold this kind of activity. It reminds us that we needed to do a quicker and more thorough job of clarifying the truth to people.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200406/20202.html

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 12, the 2004 Taipei Seniors Sports and Health Conference was held in the municipal stadium. Invited by event sponsor Taipei Seniors Foundation, about 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners attended to actively support the city government of Taipei in encouraging seniors to participate in outdoor activities. Practitioners politely refused the 100-Taiwan New Dollars (Taiwan's currency) coupon that sponsors provided to every practitioner, which made a strong impression on the sponsors.

When the sponsors contacted the practitioners, they mentioned that over the past few years, they have seen more and more people practicing Falun Gong. At each Falun Gong group practice held in front of the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, there were more than 1,000 practitioners participating. They believed that Falun Gong practitioners must have benefited a great deal from the practice and hoped that the practitioners would participate in this conference, so that more people would get the chance to learn about Dafa.

Mr. Hong represents Taiwan Falun Dafa practitioners to accept an award issued by the Mayor of Taipei, Mr. Ma Ying-cheo

When the conference began, the Mayor of Taipei Mr. Ma Ying-cheo presented awards to the groups in attendance. Eight groups were invited to give performances. The exercise demonstration by the 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners, who dressed in yellow T-shirts, was especially impressive. The host said enthusiastically, "People of all ages can practice Falun Gong!" She noticed that the first row was composed of children and the youngest one was only 2 years old. Their movements were just as precise as the adult practitioners. She asked one of the practitioners to tell the audience about Falun Dafa, so that more people would have a further understanding of it. Mr. Hong said that Falun Dafa is a mind and body cultivation practice. It emphasizes improving one's moral standard, and the exercise instruction is free of charge. He welcomed more people to learn the exercises.

Many practitioners came with their entire families to attend this activity, with the eldest more than 80 years old and the youngest only 7 months. One mother said that because both she and her husband practice Falun Gong, her baby seldom cries loudly. During the activity, her baby was content and seemed very interested in everything going on around him.

Many seniors became healthy after practicing Falun Gong. Below are the experiences from those who participated in this activity:

Mrs. Wu, a 74-year-old practitioner from Taipei's Da-an Forest Park practice site, suffered from more than 10 kinds of illnesses including skin problems, constipation, cataracts, trachea expansion and others four years ago. After she started to practice Falun Gong, her illnesses disappeared. Her two daughters also practice Falun Gong. Their health insurance cards are not needed anymore. Previously, Mrs. Wu often complained that her children did not visit her enough. She said that after she started practicing Falun Gong, she was able to think about things from others' perspectives more. She understands that her children are busy with their jobs and families, and it is not that they are not filial towards her. She felt that this period of time is the happiest time in her life.

Mrs. Chen is 60 years old, but she looks as if she were only in her 40s. Her face glows with health and her skin is white and delicate. She said that she loved sports when she was young. Before she began to practice Falun Gong in 1999, she had been a Taichi coach for 10 years, but that did not help eliminate her illnesses. She suffered from an unusual disease that the skin on her hand would shed after contact with water. Doctors were unable to cure her and she had suffered from it for 33 years. This brought lots of trouble for her. For example, when she cooked, the hot steam made her hands ache, and she had to wear gloves to do certain housework. It was shocking that her hands recovered after only 6 months of practicing Falun Gong. She does not need to wear gloves to do housework anymore. Because she benefited from the practice a lot, she set up a practice site at a university near her house. She also showed videos of Teacher's 9-day Falun Gong seminar and taught the exercises, which allowed many university students to begin practicing Falun Gong. Students become more energetic after they practiced Falun Gong. They are able to concentrate on their studies better and do better in their studies. Mrs. Chen said that Falun Dafa is so great and that she hoped more people would come to learn the practice.

The 76-year-old Mr. Li has practiced Falun Gong for 8 years. He persisted in doing 2 hours of exercises every morning in the park. Previously, he suffered from different kinds of illnesses and even found it hard to get onto the bus. He was hunchbacked and suffered bleeding in his stomach five times. He had to stay in the hospital for treatment many times. After he started practicing Falun Gong, he only went to see a dentist. His other illnesses were completely cured. Now he felt very relaxed when walking up the stairs. Mr. Li said that besides practicing the exercises, he reads Zhuan Falun (the main book of Falun Gong) everyday. The book teaches the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," which guides people on how to cultivate themselves and live by these principles. He said that he felt more comfortable and happier through improving his character and removing his bad habits.

Mr. Chen, who has practiced Falun Gong for only 8 months, said, "A few years ago, I saw many people practicing Falun Gong in parks, but I did not want to find out more about the practice. I thought it was only an ordinary Qigong. When I saw my daughter's changes after a few months of practice, I also read the book Zhuan Falun. Only then did I understand that this was such an extraordinary practice! People did not know about such a mind and body practice before. Fame and wealth cannot be carried on when one dies. I have lived for 75 years, and the principles taught in the book directly pointed to my heart. I understand that I don't have much time left in my life, and I have to give up many bad habits and mentalities. I decided to practice cultivation. Because of my old age, I have gone through many hardships during the process of cultivation. I overcame those difficulties and persistently attended the morning exercises no matter what. Previously, I had to go to the hospital once a month, and now I don't have any illnesses anymore."

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 6, 2004, Boston practitioners participated the 100^th anniversary grand parade in the Dorchester area for the first time. The gallant waist drum team and the graceful celestial maiden dance won warm applause and high praise from the civilians, hosts and police. Furthermore, the float decorated with pink lotus flowers won the "Best Art Design Award" for its unique design. Moreover, practitioners handed out many truth-clarification materials along the two-hour parade route, introducing Falun Dafa as well as exposing the truth of the persecution in China.

The float that won the "Best Art Design Award"

The waist drum team

Group picture with the appraisal committee members

Before the parade started, many people had already come over to admire the float, and asked how the lotus flowers were made. After the parade, the appraisal committee honored our float with the "Best Art Design Award" and asked to take a picture with practitioners.

Soon after the parade started, it began to rain. The rain was so hard that practitioners were soaked immediately. However, from five-year-old children to elders in their sixties, not a single person fell behind. The young practitioners sitting upright on the lotus flowers remained motionless, and the waist drum team's drumming became louder and louder. A practitioner in the drum team said afterwards that he felt very uncomfortable when he was all wet, and his feet were soaked in cold water. His glasses were covered with water, and he could not even see the road. But when it occurred to him that the practitioners in China were subject to unjust persecution, he realized that he must treasure this opportunity to expose the persecution and clarify the facts of Falun Gong to people in the Dorchester area, so he beat his drum with even more determination despite his uncomfortable situation.

A policeman told a practitioner that, "Your group is wonderful. Come back next year." When a practitioner told another policeman about Falun Gong and the persecution in China, the policeman said, "It is such a wonderful practice, I want to learn it too. I am very sympathetic about the persecution you have suffered. My heart is with you forever."

(Clearwisdom.net)

On March 16, 2004, Gansu Province Falun Dafa practitioner Jin Jilin was transferred from Lanzhou Prison to Dingxi Prison. The police began brutally torturing Jin on March 26. They shocked Jin with several electric batons at the same time. Jin's body was severely burned, and Jin's life is in imminent danger. Prison authorities have locked Jin in isolation. To prevent reports of these brutal acts from getting out, Jin's family has been denied visitation.

Yao Xiaoqiang is the prison official primarily responsible for this inhumane torture.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Dingxi Prison, which is publicly called "Dingxi Lifting Machines Factory": 86-932-8212307, 86-932-8212007
Yao Xiaoqiang, head of the education section: 86-932-8212260

Ms. Chen Xueyan, in her fifties, started practicing Falun Gong in 1999. On the evening of April 19, 2004, she was unlawfully arrested in Qiyang County, Hunan Province. She is currently being held in the Qiyang Detention Center for persecution.

Four Falun Dafa practitioners, Tan Jinyun, Deng Honghua, an elderly lady named Cao, and Deng Ronglu, from Qidong County, Hunan Province were unlawfully held in the Qidong County Detention Center for distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials. On the evening of April 5, Deng Ronglu was inhumanely beaten by guards until there were injuries all over the body.

On May 9, 2004, Qidong County Falun Dafa practitioners Tan Bangyan, Jiang Pinglian and Jiang's son Luo Lin were sentenced to prison terms for printing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials. Tan and Jiang were each sentenced to eight years in prison. Luo was sentenced to five years to be served outside the prison.

Mr. Zhang Shengqi, 35, lived in the No. 24 Committee on Xishan Street at Lushuihe Town in Fusong County, Baishan City, Jilin Province. On February 10, 2001, he was arrested and then tortured by the Lushuihe Town Police Department. He was later transferred to the Fushong County Detention Center. In April 2001, Mr. Zhang was unlawfully sentenced to forced labor and held in the Bashan City Forced Labor Camp. Labor camp guards often beat him up. Zhang was then transferred to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province, where he again suffered inhumane brutality. He was emaciated when released on medical parole and taken home by his family. Mr. Zhang Shengqi died on February 26, 2004.

Ms. Lu Yanna is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Longkou City, Yantai, Shandong Province. She had been forced to leave her home and had just delivered a daughter in late March of 2004. In the first half of April 2004, Longkou City police from Yantai, Shandong Province arrested her in Qianshan County, Anhui Province. She was then unlawfully held in the "610 Office Brainwashing Base." [The "610 Office" is 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.] When she was arrested, she was very weak from recently having given birth. So far, only Ms. Lu's father has seen her. No other family members have been allowed to visit her or her baby. Currently she is being unlawfully held in Beihai Hospital against her wishes.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Office of the bureau chief at Longkou City Police Department in Yantai, Shandong Province: 86-535-8501001
Office of the deputy bureau chief of Longkou City Police Department: 86-535-8501003, 86-535-8501005
Longkou City "610 Office": 86-535-8503460
Wang Chenghui, deputy secretary of Longkou City Political and Judiciary Committee, member of the "610 Office": 86-13963801066 (cellular)
Ma Daotong, member of the "610 Office": 86-13001606810 (cellular)
Qi Zhuangda, member of the "610 Office": 86-13505451806 (cellular)
Longkou City "610 Office" Brainwashing Base: 86-535-8622610, 86-535-8622556
Section of Appeals and Complaints of the Longkou City Procuratorate: 86-535-8502000

Su Dengliang is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Damazhuang in Tang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province. At 11:00 p.m. on May 20, 2004, the police climbed over the wall and arrested Su. Officers who carried out the arrest include Yan Zhenbo, of the Nanshi District Branch Police Department in Baoding City, Li Jianzhu, head of the political security section in Tang County, and those from the Chengguan Police Station in Tang County. The officers also confiscated a cellular phone and over 1,000 yuan of cash. [The average monthly income of an urban worker is 500 yuan.] Another Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Qing Jun, was also arrested.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Nanshi District Branch Police Department in Baoding City, Hebei Province: 86-312-2026457
Cai Changchun, head of the branch police department: 86-312-2033166 (office), 86-13803263381 (cellular)
Yan Zhenbo, officer at the branch police department: 86-13703322148
Tang County Police Department: 86-312-6420332

On May 20, 2004, Mr. Wang Jinzhong, a 49-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, was arrested at his workplace by officers from the Xingshun Police Station, a subordinate of the Tiexi Branch Police Department in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Mr. Wang lives in Heping District, Shenyang City. His home has been ransacked, and his wife had been forced to stay away from home for two years. She just had an operation on her stomach two weeks ago. Their child, who is scheduled to take the college enrollment exam this summer, is the only one who lives at their home now.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Complaint phone line of the Tiexi Branch Police Department in Shenyang City: 86-24-25612950
Secretary Section of the branch police department: 86-24-25850469
Political Security Section of the branch police department: 86-24-25850233
Li Qing and Liu Bo, officers at the branch police department: 86-24-25850233 (office)
Xingshun Police Station: 86-24-25863144

Ms. Zheng Jumei is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Yidu, Hubei Province. She has been held in custody since April 30, 2004. Her son Zheng Decheng and son-in-law Li Shubo actively collaborated with the police, which resulted in her arrest.

Telephone numbers:

Zheng Decheng: 86-716-8501015
Li Shubo: 86-717-8378081

On the afternoon of May 13, 2004, police from Xiazhaizi Village in Sanjia Township, Qingyuan County, Fushun City arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Xu Jie. The police also confiscated Falun Dafa books and materials. Xu Jie is currently being held at the Dashagou Detention Center in Qingyuan County.

On April 29, 2004, Zhaodong City Falun Dafa practitioners Chen Jing and Cao Yankun went to Shangjia Town to distribute Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials. The local police station arrested them upon receiving a report from informants. The two practitioners were then transferred to the Zhaodong City Police Department and held in the detention center there. They have since been transferred to the Zhaodong City No. 1 Detention Center. No one has been allowed to visit them.

Around 9:00 a.m. on May 19, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Fan Meiling, in her fifties, was arrested by officers from Shuangqiaozi Police Station in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. Her home was also ransacked. The officers then arrested her daughter Luo Hui, who is around 30 years old. Tang Ying, in her thirties, who was working in the beauty salon owned by Ms. Luo, was also taken away.

Ms. Geng Shun'e, 46, is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jiyuqiao in Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. Around 4:00 p.m. on May 20, 2004, the police arrested her at her home. The officers destroyed the steel burglar gate and forcibly took her away. Ms. Geng was home by herself prior to being abducted. When her husband returned home after work, neighbors told him that his wife had been arrested.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Chen, director of the Wuchang District "610 Office:" 86-27-88936328 (office)
Xiong Ming'an, who is in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong at Zhuanwaxiang, Jiyuqiao in Wuchang District: 86-27-62329533

At 10:00 a.m. on April 1, 2004, several dozen officers from the Shulan City State Security Brigade in Jilin Province surrounded the Shulan City Electric Wire Factory. All of the employees were ordered to a large room and told to remain there. The officers locked the door to prevent anyone from leaving. Then they broke into practitioner Ms. Xu Fenglan's office and ransacked it. The officers then claimed that she had Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials at her home and forcibly took Xu and her husband Qiao Yuqiang to the State Security Brigade. The officers then searched the homes of Mr. Qiao's mother and sister. Ms. Xu was taken to the city's detention center. On April 18, her family was told to pick up a "notification of forced labor." Ms. Xu Fenglan has been unlawfully sentenced to one year of forced labor.

Ms. Zhao Meiling, about 38 years old, lives at Xishan, Li Village. She was turned in to the police for giving her son's teacher a VCD about Falun Gong. Ms. Zhao was later unlawfully sentenced to forced labor for the second time. She is being held in the Wangcun Provincial Women's No. 2 Forced Labor Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province.

Ms. Gao Mingxia, about 37 years old, lives at Dongshan in Li Village. She was turned in to the police and taken to the Xiangtan Road Police Station in Licang District. On May 14, she was unlawfully sentenced to two-and-a-half years of forced labor (this is the second time she was sentenced to forced labor). She is being held in the Wangcun Provincial Women's No. 2 Forced Labor Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province. Police officers who participated in persecuting her include Shao Yue, Hao Lishan, and Long Qinghua. The telephone number of the Xiangtan Road Police Station is 86-532-4835622.

Around May 1, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Han Mingxing, about 36 years old, who lives at Dazaoyuan in Licang District, Mr. Yin Xinyun, about 29 years old, who lives on Binhe Road in Licang District, Ms. Gong Haifeng, about 35 years old, of nearby Xiawangbu in Licang District, and another Falun Dafa practitioner (whose name is not available) went out to distribute Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials. They were arrested and taken to the Xinghua Road Police Station in Licang District. On May 10, the four practitioners were detained on criminal charges and they are being held in the Qingdao City No. 1 Detention Center.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Xinghua Road Police Station in Licang District: 86-532-4632575
Liu Yong, deputy head of the anti-cult section, who has been in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong since 1999: 86-13336395799

At 11:00 a.m. on April 6, 2004, Jiang Zehang, an officer from the Nancheng Police Station in Shulan City, and two other officers unlawfully entered Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Shulan's home. Ms. Wang, 63, was arrested. The officers claimed that she had Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials at her home. On April 29, Ms. Wang was unlawfully sentenced to one year of forced labor. While she was detained in the Shulan City Detention Center, Ms. Wang was not able to walk steadily due to the persecution. The Shulan City "610 Office" insisted on sending her to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp for further persecution despite her poor physical condition.

On the morning of April 23, 2004, Jiang Zehang led three other officers who placed Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Pengying in Jiekuang, Shulan City under arrest for the third time. Wang had been unlawfully sent to forced labor camps twice. At the end of December 2003, Wang was released after serving a forced labor term. In less than two weeks, Wang was taken away and sent to the labor camp for a second time.

Mr. Yang Xiuming is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Xinhuang County, Hunan Province. On August 4, 2003, he was unlawfully taken from the Civil Affairs Bureau in Xinhuang County, Hunan Province. Li Dongping and another officer took him to the Yuping County Detention Center in Guizhou Province. Li is the head of the State Security Brigade of the Yuping County Police Department in Guizhou Province.

In the detention center, Mr. Yang was brutally beaten by Ma Yong, Li Dongping, Yuanlaowu (nickname), Liu Fucai and other Yuping County officers. He was handcuffed and shackled, hung from the floor, beaten, forced to stand facing the wall for hours, and made to kneel with his hands and feet on the cement ground. He was also deprived of sleep and water for days.

Mr. Yang Xiuming remains on a hunger strike to protest this persecution. Zhong, head of the police department, and Li Dongping ordered officers in the detention center to force-feed him. During the forced feeding he was immobilized by having his hands and feet tied up. Mr. Yang is in an extremely weak condition.

Telephone number of the Tongren Middle Level People's Court in Guizhou Province: 86-856-5223404

Mr. Ma Minghai lives at the Shenjia Residential Area in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. After he was released from Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp, the "610 Office" constantly harassed him. The Minghui website published a description of the persecution Mr. Ma had gone through after seven members of his immediate family went to Beijing to appeal peacefully for Falun Dafa. Later, a large number of police officers were sent to besiege Mr. Ma's home in broad daylight. They pried open the steel burglar door and forcibly arrested Mr. Ma, who was swiftly sentenced to a year and a half of forced labor. Mr. Ma is being held in the Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Wang Jianwei, deputy chief of the Weicheng Branch Police Department (in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong): 86-910-3214592
Lu Juying, deputy head of the political security section in Weicheng: 86-910-3257835
Feng Yujie, member of the political security section in Weicheng: 86-910-3257835
Zhao Mianxing, director of "610 Office": 86-910-3220813, 86-910-3220841
Gao Fan, head of the political security section in Weicheng: 86-910-3270290, 86-13609218125 (cellular)

Ms. Hao Lihua is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shunyi District, Beijing. On April 1, 2004, she was abducted and taken to the Shunyi District Detention Center in Beijing for clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa to the public. She was transferred to the Fengtai District Detention Center in Beijing on April 15.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Fengtai District Branch of Beijing Police Department: 86-10-63811992
Fengtai District Detention Center: 86-10-83680063

Recently, six women who are Falun Dafa practitioners in Jixi City have been unlawfully sentenced to prison terms.

Ms. Li Haiyan was sentenced to three years in prison.

Ms. Guo Renxiu, 38, was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Ms. Wang Wencheng, 24, of Jixi Mining Company, was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Ms. Guo Changyu, 45, from Jidong County, was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Ms. Ge Lijuan, 40, from Bamiantong Town in Muling City, was sentenced to three years in prison.

Ms. Liu Xiangli, an attendant of the Yingchun Forestry Bureau Hostel in Hulin, was sentenced to five (or possibly eight) years in prison.

All these practitioners are being held at the Jixi City No. 2 Detention Center.

(Clearwisdom.net) Editors' Note: Each time we publish news of this nature, we do so with heavy hearts. These people started off as public servants, but under the intense pressure applied by the Jiang regime, they were pushed into persecuting Dafa disciples. In the process of destroying the lives of kind, law-abiding citizens, they have sealed their own fates and inevitably faced karmic retribution as punishment. If it weren't for Jiang's wicked orders, perhaps their fates would have been different.

Former Deputy Head of a Prison Administration Group Receives Karmic Retribution

Zhou Guichun, a female deputy head for the Prison Administration Group in the Police Department of Dalian City, was in charge of detention centers and forced labor camps. In September 1999, over 50 female Dafa practitioners were detained in the Dalian City Detention Center. Zhou took part in the persecution against those female practitioners using physical torture including beating and "Imprisonment in Hell" (1). In early 2001, she was transferred to the Dalian Labor Camp as the head of the women's unit. In the beginning of 2003, she was transferred back to the Dalian City Detention Center. Zhou had encountered a series of misfortunes within a one-year period. She had a car accident in 2003. In the winter of 2003, she was stabbed by thieves on her way home one night. Her experiences should serve as a warning to those who persecute Dafa practitioners: Wrong-doing will bring harm to one's life.

The Head of the Police Department in Dengfeng City, Henan Province is Killed in a Car Accident

Ren Changxia, female, 40 years old, head of the police department in Dengfeng City, Henan Province, received karmic retribution recently for persecuting Dafa practitioners. She died in a car accident on April 13. She was the only fatality among the passengers in the car.

Four Dafa practitioners in Dengfeng City once went to the City Government Compound to hand out truth-clarification materials and were arrested by the police. Upon learning the situation, Ren Changxia sentenced these four practitioners and another practitioner, Ms. Zhao Yueyun from Zhengzhou City, to five years in prison without any legal grounds. Those practitioners were all detained in the Xinxiang Women's Prison.

Local Ruffian in Luancheng County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province Receives Karmic Retribution

truth-clarification materials when the notorious local ruffian Zhao Libo saw him and shouted loudly, drawing a crowd of people. Relying on physical advantage, Zhao Libo who was in his 30s, slandered Falun Gong in public and beat and kicked Cheng Jingshang, a senior citizen.

In the county detention center, Mr. Cheng Jingshang was beaten so badly that he was severely devastated physically and mentally. He was later transferred to the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp and was illegally sentenced to three years of labor. Since Mr. Cheng kept up a hunger strike and nearly died, his family members took him home for medical leave.

In late April, Zhao Libo was at odds with another villager and his heel bone cracked while they pushed each other violently. His hospitalization cost several thousand yuan (2). He is now forced to stay in bed and cannot take care of himself. The villagers talked in private, saying that this was his retribution since he persecuted Falun Gong and committed a lot of wrongdoing.

Related names and phone number:

Zhang Zhenxie, the County Party Secretary: 86-13933195988 (Mobile), 86-311-5503890 (Office)

Yang Weidong, Director of local the "610 Office" (3): 86-311-8035892 (Home) 86-311-5503781 (Office)

Niejiazhunag Detention Center: 86-311-6589250

Retribution Case in Qingyuan Town

Chen Peiyou, the director of Qingyuan County Qingyuan Town Zhengzhong Village Security Committee, followed Jiang's group to persecute Falun Gong. Since July 1999, he went to every family to search for Dafa books and materials, forced Dafa practitioners to write and sign "Guarantee Statements" (4), and in many ways caused damage to Dafa and persecuted Dafa practitioners. His wife was hostile to Dafa because of his influence. In October 2002, his wife went to the county seat and was hit by a bus. She broke her ribs and teeth. However, Chen did not recognize the retribution. In May 2003, he led several policemen and abducted Dafa practitioner Zhou Meina and two other family members.

Party Deputy Secretary of Jinning County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province Dies in a Car Accident

After Pang Shuguang was appointed as the deputy secretary of Jinning County, he participated in engineering the persecution of Falun Gong. Many Dafa practitioners were arrested, detained and sent to forced labor camps. Dafa practitioner Bao Weiyuan from the Kunming Phosphorus Mine died as a result of the persecution. In late March 2004, Pang and his mistress drove a car to Kunming City. The car rolled over on the highway and he died. The fact that he received karmic retribution had a big impact among local government officials and on the general public.

Related phone numbers:

Jiang Yongning, vicious policeman from the political security section of the police department in Jinning County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province: 86-871-7802808 (Office); 86-871-7802856 (Home)

Li Shuyun, head of the "610 Office" of Jinning County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province: 86-871-7892345 (Office)

Policeman in Maojiashan Women's Labor Camp in Chongqing City Dies Suddenly

Vicious policeman Wei Shan was 40 years old. He had received three "awards" for his brutal tactics in persecuting Dafa practitioners. He used to work in Sichuan Province 2^nd Prison (now called Chongqing City Prison) and later was transferred to Maojiashan Women's Forced Labor Camp where he was responsible for persecuting Dafa practitioners.

In March 2003, Wei Shan went to Chongqing City Xinqiao Hospital for a physical exam and the results showed no problems. But one week later, when he was making a phone call in his office to arrange further persecution of Falun Gong, he suddenly died next to the telephone before even finishing the conversation.

Former Director of a Health Department in Guantao County, Handan City, Hebei Province Dies of Cancer

Zhao Fuxiang, former Director of the Health Department in Guantao County, Handan City, Hebei Province, was in his 50s. Since 1999, he persecuted Dafa practitioners. He ordered the monitoring of practitioners and verbally abused them. Dafa practitioners tried to clarify the truth to him and he refused to listen and kept doing bad deeds. On September 1, 2002, Zhao was diagnosed with cancer and died on October 1.

Three Village Officials Receive Karmic Retribution for Persecuting Dafa

A village supervisor named Wang, Security Chief Zhang and Village Committee member Wang in Guantao County all followed Jiang to persecute Dafa. They tailed, monitored, and fined practitioners.

Several months ago, Village Supervisor Wang felt uncomfortable and went to the hospital. The doctor asked him to stay at the hospital. He died a few days later. Security Chief Zhang of the village had hemiplegia and could not move. Another village committee member named Wang also recently died of disease. Three people received karmic retribution. People who knew them said, "For a few hundred yuan, they followed Jiang's group to persecute good people. See what happened? They paid with their lives."

Man Dies Due to Karmic Retribution

Yang Zhenyi from Zhaoguan Village, Weidong Town, Guantao County used to have all kinds of chronic diseases including hepatitis. After practicing Falun Gong, all his diseases were gone and he was able to do laborious work again. Since Jiang's regime started persecuting Dafa in 1999, the officials from the township, village and police department often came to his home to harass him. Under terror and pressure, Yang Zhenyi was frightened and wrote statements giving up his Dafa practice. He also cooperated with the evil and recorded many words slandering Dafa on videotape. He gave up his cultivation. Shortly afterwards, his old diseases relapsed and he went to the hospital for treatment and died.

Vicious Policeman in the Pingchuan District of Baiyin City, Gansu Province, Falls from a Building and is Severely Injured

Sun Jie, former head of the Political Security Section at the Pingchuan District Police Department of Baiyin City, Gansu Province, illegally abducted Dafa practitioners and beat practitioners badly. Now he has received karmic retribution. On May 3, 2004, Sun Jie fell from the third story of a building and was severely injured. He had a broken skull and a brain hematoma. Because of acute skull and brain injury causing a coma, he did not wake up for ten days. Currently Sun still does not have a clear head and is now being treated in a local hospital.

During the last four years, Sun Jie refused to listen to the kind advice from Dafa practitioners and brutally persecuted local Falun Gong practitioners. He illegally abducted over 30 practitioners. During the detainment of those practitioners in local detention and drug rehabilitation centers, Sun Jie ordered people to conduct beatings, to confine practitioners in extremely small cells, to hang them up by handcuffs and to deprive practitioners of sleep for extended periods of time. He ordered other criminal inmates to beat and torture Dafa practitioners and tried to extort money from practitioners and their families. He also fabricated false evidence to frame Dafa practitioners in order to send practitioners to forced labor camps. He has sent more than ten practitioners to labor camps.

May 30, 2004

Notes:

(1) Imprisonment in Hell: This is a device intended for death row inmates. Whenever the practitioner sleeps or moves, plier-shaped clasps are dug into the practitioners' skin.

(2) Yuan is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

(3) The "610 Office" is 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.

(4) Guarantee Statements: Statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

• Dafa Practitioners' Solemn Statements [4/29/2004]
• Solemn Declarations by Non-Practitioners[4/17/2004]
• Solemn Declarations by Young Dafa Practitioners [4/29/2004]

Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.