Clearwisdom.net, Friday, April 08, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net) Sponsored by the Mid-US Falun Dafa Association, the "Uncompromising Courage" Art Exhibit was held from April 4 to April 8, 2005 in the lobby of the James R. Thompson Center, an Illinois State government building in downtown Chicago. The Thompson Center is among the most famous buildings of downtown Chicago. This 17-story building houses over 70 state agencies and offices, and draws at least 5,000 visitors daily. Over 30 works from the art exhibit were prominently displayed along an arc in the center of the Thompson Center's lobby. The 32 paintings were created by 15 Falun Gong practitioners who are artists, primarily using the technique of Western oil paintings. The art exhibit was divided into four themes: 1) Heaven and the human world, the beauty of cultivation practice; 2) Uncompromising courage; 3) Spreading the truth and calling for justice; and 4) Justice will ultimately triumph. The art exhibit displayed the process of Falun Gong's wide dissemination, as well as the current persecution and practitioners' perseverance in resisting the persecution.

Representative Liu Tong from the Mid-US Falun Dafa Association expressed that these paintings are not only artistic works, but they also reflect the battle between righteousness and evil as played out in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China. He said that these works were created based on true stories, including some of the artists' personal experience of being illegally detained in Mainland China, such as professor Zhang Kunlun.

Chicago 4^th Ward Alderman Toni Preckwinkle (left) and Cook County Commissioner Anthony Peraica (right) participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony and speak at the press conference

The opening ceremony officially began at noon. At the press conference, 4^th Ward Alderman Toni Preckwinkle and Cook County Commissioner (16^th District) Anthony Peraica came to take part in the ribbon cutting ceremony. Toni Preckwinkle said that as an African American, she knew deeply the preciousness of freedom and equality. She also felt that we should show concern over inequalities happening in other places, especially the persecution of Falun Gong in China. In 2002, Ms. Preckwinkle initiated a resolution supporting Falun Gong and condemning the persecution. The resolution was unanimously passed by the Chicago City Council on November 6, 2002. Mr. Peraica said that despite economic trade between China and America, democracy and human rights in Mainland China have not improved. He hoped that democracy, freedom and human rights would not be inundated by the big tide of economic concerns.

People view the art exhibit and learn the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution

As the Thompson Center is located in the center of Chicago, it receives thousands of office workers and visitors daily. Upon entering the lobby, people are immediately attracted by the solemn and peaceful exhibit, and most of them stop and view the paintings carefully. Many people were amazed at the first painting, entitled, "The Pledge." This painting describes the story of Falun Dafa disciples coming down from Heaven to the human world to fulfill their pledge and mission. Dafa disciples in the painting include all human races. They are shown in various styles of dress and have a solemn and steadfast demeanor. Though the audience may not completely understand the meaning of the painting, all the people passing by exclaimed, "Beautiful! Spectacular!" Many people inquired about the price and wanted to buy the painting.

Eight paintings depicting torture methods caught peoples' attention. The torture methods shown included force-feeding, the tiger bench, hammering bamboo spikes into fingers, injection with unknown substances, and beating. The audience stopped in front of these paintings for the longest period of time, and raised many questions. They paid great attention to the stories behind the paintings. Many people felt that it was inconceivable that such cruel torture could be happening in the modern 21^st Century. Ms. Xu, who was in charge of explaining the content of the paintings, told the audience that they all showed true stories, actual events that had happened to her friends. An organizer of a youth association listened to Ms. Xu's explanation and told her that she felt the art exhibit was very meaningful. There happened to be several young people' groups coming to visit the Thompson Center the next day, so the youth association organizer requested that the practitioners introduce Falun Gong and the persecution in China to these young people. At 5:00 p.m. when work was over for the day, there were still many people walking out of the building and nodding in approval to the practitioners. They thanked the practitioners for bringing them such a beautiful art exhibit.

The "Uncompromising Courage" Art Exhibit has been displayed in major cities throughout the world, including Geneva, Sydney, Jakarta, Washington DC, New York and Boston, and cities in Taiwan, Korea, and Canada. This was the first time that the paintings were shown in Chicago. Later, the art exhibit will tour other cities in the mid-US area.

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Jiang Renzheng and his wife encountered severe persecution shortly after they went back China. Because they practice Falun Gong, when they were in Germany, they filed application for asylum status there. Unfortunately, their application was turned down and they had to go back China. Their plight shocked the German society. The following is compiled from a report filed by by Radio Free Asia correspondent Yang Tianyi on April 5.

In recent years, although the German public and government have learned about the brutal persecution encountered by Falun Gong practitioners in China and the government has protected a good number of persecuted practitioners by granting their political asylum status, the brutality of the persecution, in many cases, is far beyond the imagination of the government officials who handle the matters.

During the period of their life outside China, Mr. Jiang Renzheng and his wife started practicing Falun Gong. The government officials who handled their asylum application did not believe that they would be persecuted if they went back to China. Therefore, earlier this March, they did not give a thought to the public opinion and forcefully deported the couple to China.

Shortly after the couple stepped onto China's territory, they encountered brutal persecution. The incident shocked the German society. Hence, this reporter interviewed Ms. Tang who is actively working on and calling for the rescue of this couple.

Ms. Tang: On March 7, they were deported from Frankfurt to Beijing. Two weeks later, three leaders, including Director Yan and a Sector Chief, Mr. Yi from National Security Bureau in Benxi City took turns interrogating Mr. Jiang Renzheng. In addition, they even brought in Mr. Jiang's father. The interrogation started at about 4 pm on March 17 and went on to 4 am the next day. The officials forced him to report all he had done in Germany over the past few years, especially things associated with Falun Gong. They pressured him to write a statement renouncing Falun Gong, but he refused to do so. They then tried to put pressure on his father.

Ms. Tang: Now their entire family has lost their peaceful lives. Mr. Jiang's father suffered a tremendous mental shock, and as a result, he is unable to recognize his family members. His mother keeps crying every day.

Ms. Tang said that in less than one month after Mr. Jiang and his wife went back to China, their parents, children and they, themselves, are now facing physical and mental collapse.

Ms. Tang: This matter has raised a great impact. It aroused the media's attention just before the couple was deported. Human rights organizations, some related institutions and some politicians were all aware of this matter. At that time, the related German government officials indeed could not imagine that the persecution is so severe and so brutal that it affects every Falun Gong practitioner.

Ms. Tang said that what occurred to this couple did not only shock the governmental departments that deal with asylum applications, but because it is so typical, it also became one of the issues of most concern for human rights organizations and German media. Therefore, they will continue to follow up on this incident and will make all possible efforts to help Mr. Jiang Renzheng and his wife regain their freedom.

The above news is reported by Tianyi, correspondent of Radio Free Asia in Germany.

GENEVA - A special agenda item was discussed during this year's Human Rights Convention at the United Nations. For the first time, consideration has been given to rescuing children persecuted in China, such as the children of Falun Gong practitioners and underground Christians.

During the meeting, Ms. Xue Huiying, a representative from the "Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners" (GMR) reported on how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted Falun Gong practitioners over the past five years. She reported that the number of verified deaths had risen to at least 1,520, but that internal information from the government puts the number at over 10,000. "The cases of the orphans of some these Falun Gong practitioners are even more tragic," she said. "They are forced to live with their often elderly grandparents. Many children do not have sufficient access to finances to maintain their lives and often lose their chances of getting an education.

Some children cannot even live with their direct relatives and those kind people who have adopted them, and are often themselves threatened by the police. Under such pressure, children have no sense of safety. Some children have been sent to orphanages." Ms. Xue called for the rescue of these orphans and for the provision of basic living standards, education, health and safety, so that they may try be able to lead a normal life.

The meeting was chaired by Mr. Francis Madore, who showed the audience a TV program made by GMR about rescuing these orphans. People were moved to tears at seeing the helplessness of innocent young children after losing their parents. Besides her own personal tragic story of torture at the hands of the authorities, Ms. Chen Ying also spoke of the misery of two one-year-old orphans of Falun Gong practitioners, Jin Panpan and Liu Shuangshuang. Both of their parents have died as a result of the persecution against Falun Gong. "A tragedy has beset these children when they are still too young to understand their plight," she said.

Ms. Liu Xianzhi, a member of the underground Christian movement who escaped from China after being incarcerated for six years, spoke about the persecution of some young Chinese Christians. In one incident, over 20 children were suddenly surrounded by the police, brought to the police department and then incarcerated for three months, where they suffered inhumane tortures simply for listening to their teacher telling stories about Jesus.

Many attendees thanked the presenters and organizers for telling the truth about the plight of these children. Others asked what they could do to help the orphans.

(Clearwisdom.net) On March 29 and 30, 2005, practitioners in the Bay Area of northern California held an anti-torture exhibition and truth-clarification poster show at the University of California, Berkeley, which caught the attention of many faculty and students. They were shocked and could hardly believe that, in the civilized world of the 21^st Century, this cruel persecution could be going on in China right now and for the past almost six years. People signed their names to support the anti-torture effort.

During the two-day event, practitioners reenacting the torture methods being used to persecute practitioners in China were on one side of the student association square, while other practitioners demonstrating the five exercises to soothing music were on the other side. The two activities were in striking contrast and provided a unique campus experience.

The reenactments depicted three of the countless tortures that Falun Gong practitioners in China have suffered during the past five plus years:

"Being confined to an iron cage"- In China, the cage is so small that one cannot stand up or sit down.

The truth-clarification posters provided descriptions of other methods of torture that Falun Gong practitioners have suffered in China, as well as practitioners' personal accounts of their physical and mental tortures, and the plight of US Citizen Charles Li. Charles Li went to China in January 2003 with plans to tell the Chinese people about the brutal persecution of practitioners in China. He was unlawfully imprisoned, handcuffed and force-fed. He has been sentenced to hard labor and is still in prison. The poster explained how kind-hearted people can help rescue Charles Li.

Many faculty and students passed the student association square and were shocked at the sight. Many stopped and watched attentively and read the posters.

Faculty and students at the University of California, Berkeley sign their names to support practitioners' anti-torture efforts.

After learning about the facts of the persecution, faculty and students signed their names to support practitioners' anti-torture efforts.

A faculty member said that she would use the persecution as a lecture topic for her students.

Some students said that they would make the persecution the topic of their research projects.

(Clearwisdom.net) March 27th was the final day of the group Fa-study and experience-sharing meeting of Northern European Practitioners during the Easter holidays. After dinner, practitioners were invited by the Minghui School to see what the children had created over the previous two days.

When we arrived on the top floor of the building, we were attracted by the colorful exhibition. The top floor was transformed into a beautiful exhibition room for pieces of art. On display were various kinds of Falun, painted or embroidered by the children, and many different artistic works featuring Chinese characters such as "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and "Falun Gong Is Great."

The parents said these artistic creations represent an important milestone in the course of growing up for the children because the virtues of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" are now rooted deep in their hearts.

(Clearwisdom.net) Every year during the Easter Holiday, the ancient Scottish city of Edinburgh attracts many tourists from around the world. The city council uses this opportunity to host various cultural activities to entertain the visitors, with the Easter Parade being the most prominent attraction since its inception two years ago. Falun Gong practitioners have been invited to participate in the parade both years.

Many Falun Gong practitioners from around the UK went to Edinburgh the day before the parade to prepare. They went to the city center to demonstrate the five sets of Falun Gong exercises to the tourists. They also collected petition signatures to call for the rescue of their family members who are being persecuted in China because of their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance."

During the activity, many students and tourists from China stopped to watch. One Chinese student said to practitioners, "In China the mention of 'Falun Gong' is not allowed, but in our hearts we know the truth, and we support you wholeheartedly. You are truly remarkable." Another Chinese person who works in the UK said, "Some of my colleagues and relatives practice Falun Gong. Although I don't have a clear knowledge about Falun Gong, I think Falun Gong practitioners should be respected as everyone else is." Within a few hours, even though it was raining, over three hundred people signed our petition.

On March 27th the rainy weather did not seem to affect people's eagerness to watch the parade. According to a report by Edinburgh's largest local newspaper, the Edinburgh Evening News, over 4,000 people participated in the parade. The gathered crowd numbered over 35,000. The newspaper also had a photo report entitled, "The Falun Gong Dancers," in its prime position, because Falun Gong was the only group in the parade representing traditional Chinese culture.

Led by large banners with the words, "Falun Gong," "The World Needs Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance," and "Falun Gong is spread in over sixty countries," fourteen Falun Gong practitioners wearing traditional Chinese dress performed a ribbon dance. Following them was a 20-member waist-drum group. Along the parade route, practitioners also gave out Falun Gong leaflets and homemade paper lotus flowers.

When the Falun Gong team passed the reviewing stand, the host introduced them through loudspeakers: "Falun Gong is an ancient cultivation method following the principles of 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.' It originated in China and is now practiced in over sixty countries in the world. Falun Gong is a very peaceful group; today they are showing us traditional Chinese dance and waist-drumming." When the audience saw the ribbon dance, they all applauded loudly.

After the parade, Falun Gong practitioners organized a painting exhibition and demonstrated the five sets of exercises in the park, where it was crowded with visitors. The demonstration attracted many visitors, and a UK TV station filmed the event.

In order to help visitors from around the world learn the facts about Falun Gong this Easter holiday, UK practitioners all used their own time and money to travel to Edinburgh. Some practitioners drove for a whole night and stayed in an Edinburgh youth hostel. At the end of the activity, a local practitioner went to the hostel to give the staff some Easter eggs and a thank-you card. The hostel management was very moved and said, "Falun Gong practitioners are all very kind and are welcome to come here again."

SR: Thank you for agreeing to this interview. Your painting is so beautiful-and so delicate. I wonder what the inspiration for this work was.

ZC: As a Falun Dafa practitioner, I first thought of how I could possibly carry to people the idea of wonderment of cultivation and the transcendence we who practice Falun Dafa may experience. Falun Dafa cultivates both the mind and body, and doing meditation can allow one to enter into a state of deep tranquility, and a moment that is solemn and sacred. I wanted to express this quality, this transcendental experience that Falun Gong can bring.

I wanted to show the purity of this experience. In this painting, the "Lotus Flower," a maiden sits in meditation. She gives one the impression of pure serenity, free of all mundane or worldly elements. Her hair is pinned up high to show the height her mind has reached. In the background are the lotus flowers, which also gives an otherworldly impression. The lotus is the symbol of purity and also the flower of the Buddha's paradise. In traditional Chinese culture the lotus shows the predestined relationship with the Buddha, and it is used as a symbol of one's attainment status, that is, how high one's spirit has ascended.

The pure maiden sits in front of the lotus that is the totally pure, not touched by this world.

SR: Your work looks like an example of a very traditional Chinese painting. Yet something about it seems modern to my Western eyes. Is this something intentional?

ZC: Basically, I combined the techniques of traditional Chinese painting with the use of watercolor in the Western tradition. I chose to combine these two traditions because I believe the traditional arts are gifts of the Divine, their realm of expression is high, and they can help lead people toward enlightenment of their spirits. I have studied Chinese painting for many, many years and really enjoy it.

At the same time, I'm fond of painting with watercolor. Before I left China, I taught watercolor at a university in China. Because of the possibilities in watercolor painting, the light gradation allowed by the gradation of color, the effect of the whole gives people a very strong sense of three-dimensional space.

In addition, although watercolor painting is a Western art, it shares some features with traditional Chinese painting. For example--the common element to both is the use of water as the basic medium. Both use a brush. In watercolor painting, the kind of pigment used is highly soluble, and one can manipulate the color easily and produce many subtle differences. The colors used in traditional Chinese paintings are highly soluble, too, so for me, traditional Chinese painting and watercolor painting are like sisters, very close to each other. If one can master the techniques and merge the two together, one can come up with a distinctive style.

SR: Other than talking about the painting's inspiration and the techniques used to achieve it, do you have anything else you'd like to share with our readers?

ZC: After I started practicing Falun Gong, some of my previous ideas about painting changed. Before I was fond of impressionistic and modern art. I have moved away from modern art, back to traditional art. In fact, now I think that modern art is kind of a warped idea, warped in the sense of moving away from that divine purpose of art, that is, to portray the pure, beautiful and holy. I believe that arts are a gift from the Divine, especially painting, something given to human beings.

But art depicting Buddhas and gods are not really appreciated today, and in fact are sometimes looked down upon. I have participated in many national and international painting exhibitions and, in my experience, paintings depicting what is holy have no chance of being selected for display. And this tendency is even greater in China. These kinds of painting simply are not selected for exhibitions.

I feel that the exclusion of gods and Buddha's, sacred pictures in general, reflect a warped notion--that we are not even willing to allow gods to be honored or displayed is just way-off base in my opinion.

(Clearwisdom.net) My daughter came home to visit me from overseas at the end of 2003. Because her flight arrived in Beijing and there was no connecting flight from Beijing to Jilin, I had to take the train to Beijing to pick her up from the airport. I had a train ticket with a seat next to the door. On the way to Beijing, a young man working as a supervisor with an intelligence organization sat next to me on the train. He had a terrible headache, so I gave him my seat so that he could have two seats to lie down on. I spread newspapers out on the floor to sit on. The winter weather in northern China is very cold, and the draft in front of the door was icy. The other passengers thought I must be related to the young man to make such a sacrifice. It wasn't until the young man woke up from a nap and thanked me politely that other passengers realized we did not even know each other. They were very moved by my act of altruism.

I told the young man, "You don't need to thank me. It is because I practice Falun Gong that I am becoming increasingly kind and unselfish. If you must thank someone, then thank Falun Gong and my Teacher Mr. Li Hongzhi." Next I started telling him how Teacher teaches us to become better people and how much I have benefited from Falun Gong both spiritually and physically and that my many illnesses have disappeared since I took up the practice. But now, I added, the Chinese Communist Party is persecuting and killing Falun Gong practitioners. Before I realized it, a young train attendant serving the car we were in had come to listen to me clarify the truth about Falun Gong. He asked, "Auntie, where are you headed? What is the purpose of your trip?" (Note: In Chinese society, it is polite to address an older woman outside the family as "aunt.")

I told him that I was going to Beijing to pick up my daughter from the airport and that I would be taking the train back to Jilin. Then I continued to clarify the truth and answered all the other passengers' questions about Falun Gong.

I spent the rest of the time on the train clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. When the train was about to enter Beijing Train Station, the young train attendant approached me and very kindly gave me detailed directions to the airport. He also told me that it was important that I buy train tickets for seats in the same car of the train on my way back to Jilin. He said, "Even if you cannot get a seat in the same car of this train, you must come to this car when you get on."

Before I left for the airport, I purchased two train tickets, requesting the same car on return the train. On the way to the airport, I took out the tickets only to find that I had been assigned the exact same seat in that car. What a coincidence. This was exactly what he had told me to do.

After I picked up my daughter from the airport, we visited Tiananmen Square and took a few photos. I also took a photograph of the place where I had once unfurled a Falun Gong banner. Soon it was time for us to go to the Beijing Train Station. While my daughter and I were walking towards our assigned car, I met the young train attendant on the platform. He asked me which car our tickets were for. When I told him we had seats in his car, he looked very pleased.

After we had settled in our seats, I struck up conversations with the other passengers and found opportune moments to clarify the truth about Falun Gong during the chitchat. My daughter did not try to stop me or join in on the conversations. She had been living outside of China for several years and did not know about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s hate propaganda and smear campaign against Falun Gong or its cruel persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. During the night, many passengers fell asleep on the train, so there was not much for the train attendant to do. He came to say hi to my daughter and invited her to go see the train attendant's chamber. My daughter gladly obliged. When she returned, I thought she looked like she had been crying, but I didn't ask her what had happened because I thought she might have cried while telling about the hardship of studying abroad. My daughter praised the young attendant's character and said he was a good man. She told me, "Mom, you have met a very good person. You are so lucky." My daughter decided to give him a gift. She chose the best gift from all the gifts she had brought from abroad. It cost several hundred yuan. It was a very fine gift.

After she returned from the train attendant's chamber again, she did not want to sleep at all. She kept looking at me affectionately. I didn't know what the look meant at the time.

It had been several years since our family and relatives had seen my daughter. After we returned home, several dozen family members and relatives gathered together to have a family reunion in honor of my daughter's return. When my daughter saw her aunt, she began to cry and told us what the young train attendant had said to her on the train. "The CCP ordered all train attendants to immediately report for the train police to arrest anyone who was heard talking about Falun Gong. A train attendant receives 5,000 yuan for each Falun Gong practitioner he reports to the train police." Next she explained why she gave the train attendant the most expensive gift of all. It was a gift she had prepared for her young brother, but she decided to give it to the young train attendant. "The attendant stayed up all night, standing at the end of that car of the train to prevent the train police from entering. If they had entered the car, they would surely have heard you and arrested you. Do you know why he insisted that you ride in the same car of the train on your return trip?" My daughter explained to me, "It is because he was worried that you might be arrested if you rode in a different car of the train. Do you know what he said to me? He said, 'Your mother is a good person. All the Falun Gong practitioners are good people.'" Finally, my daughter said, "You are so lucky to have met a good person. Otherwise, who knows where you might be right now."

When I understood how honorably this young train attendant had acted, I felt very touched.

I do not practice Falun Gong, but my parents and my aunt do. By observing the way they conduct themselves I could always see that practitioners of Falun Gong are truly benefiting from the practice and becoming better people by following the principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance. I had read in truth-clarifying materials about practitioners whose illnesses disappeared, and about those who safely escaped from life-threatening danger, but I always doubted whether those cases were really true because I had not witnessed them myself.

On March 4, 2005, my point of view changed when I had an opportunity to experience an amazing occurrence in my own home. After personally experiencing Dafa's miraculous nature, I would like to publicly exclaim from my heart, "Falun Dafa is good!"

It was afternoon and my aunt was cooking in the kitchen, when suddenly, the pressure cooker exploded. The sound as it shattered was terrifyingly loud. The deformed cover of the pressure cooker flew through the air and broke the glass on the kitchen door and window, then ricocheted off the doorframe and landed outside the room. The stainless steel stove was broken, and the iron backboard and a marble board that was 2 cm thick were all broken. The exhaust hood located above the stove was completely shattered and fell down to the ground. The strength of the explosion was so powerful that it blew a plastic window out of its frame, leaving a 3 cm (over an inch) gap, and the window bent out of shape. Glass chips were strewn throughout the room, and the contents of the cooker, steaming hot liquid and rice, were stuck to the walls and ceiling.

I was standing there dumbfounded as my aunt switched off the gas and calmly walked out of the kitchen. I saw that her whole body was covered with wet sticky rice. It was dripping from her face but she was not perturbed. Seeing that we were all frightened, she said, "It doesn't matter. It's no problem." Then, looking back on the scene, she explained that she had been in front of the stove, and was just about to pour out a dish of food, when she heard the loud sound. So she moved back about 1 meter and watched the exhaust hood fall down. She realized that if she hadn't moved, the exhaust hood would have landed on her. How dangerous it was! Even the flying glass shards didn't touch her. She wasn't injured at all, except for a small burn on one of her fingers. After a few minutes passed by my aunt's face became rosy with realization. "Dafa protected me," she said repeatedly. "Thank you Master!"

I still think it is quite amazing. If we really believe that Falun Dafa is good, and conduct ourselves according to Truth, Compassion and Forbearance, then we will deeply experience Master protection all the time. It is with sincere appreciation that we express our gratitude to Master for safeguarding our family.

Now we fully understand how Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Dafa is the most evil. We therefore resolutely declare our renunciation from the Chinese Communist Party and from the Communist Youth League. We will completely erase the mark of the evil Communist Party, eliminate the poison of the communist culture's brainwashing and follow Dafa to have a wonderful future.

(Clearwisdom.net) After Master published the article "Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World," we realized that it indicates the magnificent progress of Fa-rectification that is breaking through towards the human world and is disintegrating the Communist evil spirit at an extremely rapid pace.

The beings that are reached and influenced in the progress of Fa-Rectification will definitely show certain responses. At the same time, the surface manifestations in the human world also reflect various interferences in the Fa-Rectification. For example, some practitioners have shown the response of sickness karma on their bodies. Some feel sleepy and muddle-headed while studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts. Some are very busy at work. For others, their family life and conditions may be very hectic, while some others have been interfered with and tortured by the police and other officials.

When we are experiencing these kinds of interference, we must have a clear and rational understanding so that we will not be deluded by the false phenomena. We can eliminate the interference from the evil spirit in a timely manner, and at the same time, we need to rectify ourselves. No matter how hard the Communist evil spirit is trying to, in its own words, "maintain advancement," it is unable to save itself.

All the righteous gods in the cosmos are eliminating the Communist Party's evil spirit. Master said in "Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference:"

Now the old forces also have used up the evil spirit, and the old forces themselves don't exist any more. Consequently, the elimination of the evil spirit is thus an inevitable result of the cosmic climate. Master is offering salvation to all sentient beings in the process by helping all who have been poisoned by the lies of the evil spirit to recognize the evil spirit in time, and to escape its control. This is Master's great mercy.

Its current rampant behavior is just a show, a formality at the surface. In fact, it does not have its root source any more. Dafa disciples should not be deluded by the false phenomena, because it will be restrained and eliminated when we strengthen our righteous thoughts. We should be very clear at every moment. Dafa disciples are taking over a serious and challenging duty and our most urgent and pressing responsibilities are to reveal the true nature of the evil Communist Party, offer salvation to all sentient beings, send righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil spirit, and to study the Fa well in order to rectify and purify ourselves. As people are recognizing the true nature of the evil spirit, the evil spirit will continuously disintegrate. We need to catch up with Master's progress of Fa-Rectification, clarify the truth to others on a large scale, and reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. When people recognize its evil nature and feel scared and disgusted, Master and all righteous gods will clean out and eliminate the evil spirit on a large scale.

We also need to clearly understand the following relationship. The evil cult of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed unforgivable sins against Fa-Rectification, and the CCP should be eliminated and disintegrated in the Fa-Rectification. However, members of the CCP are sentient beings who we need to save. We cannot apply the notion of "class struggle" among people from past history to treat this matter. This is Fa-Rectification of the cosmos and Master is teaching the fundamental principles of the cosmos. How trivial the CCP evil spirit is! It is just an evil life created by the old forces at the lowest level and should be viewed as trash to be cleaned out and eliminated in Fa-Rectification.

Thus when we clean up and eliminate this evil spirit, people will not be deluded any more.

(Clearwisdom.net) Here are some of my experiences cultivating and validating Dafa.

Before I began to practice cultivation in Falun Dafa, I didn't believe in any qigong at all. This is the story of how I began to cultivate.

On the eve of the Chinese New Year in 1994, I suddenly had a stomachache and it hurt more and more. I took some pills and felt a little better. It still hurt a little, but I didn't pay much attention to it. A few days later, it started to hurt again, so I went to a hospital. The doctor said I had nothing wrong and prescribed some pain-relief pills. I took them and felt better. But after a few days, it started to hurt again. The situation lasted for more than three years. I even attempted suicide three times, because I could no longer tolerate the acute pain. Seeing doctors or taking pills didn't help. I couldn't even go to sleep at night. I had to jog on the roads (which seemed to slightly relieve my pain) every night when others were sleeping. Later, I became extremely weak. I had to infuse myself with nutrients every other day to maintain my life. I didn't think I would survive much longer. When I was dying, I was fortunate enough learn of Dafa, and obtained a new life. It happened as described below.

One day in May 1997, my older brother came to visit me. He didn't say anything and left when he saw in how much pain I was. That evening, he came back to my home and said, "I have borrowed Falun Gong video tapes. Let's go watch them." As I had never believed in any qigong before, I was very reluctant and went with him just to be polite. When I watched the video, every word that Teacher said made so much sense to me. So the more I watched, the more I liked it. After I watched one tape, I went back home. I began to spit up blood. I vomited for a whole night, and vomited two buckets full of stuff. It looked like the Chinese medicine that I had been taking for years, with blood and other dark stuff. My weight dropped from 154 pounds to 117 pounds. I lost more than 30 pounds of weight in one night. This was just amazing. On the second day, I felt very energetic. The sickness from which I had been suffering for more than three years was gone.

A few days later, the cleansing of my body continued. My liver hurt so much that day that I could not bear it anymore. I wanted to stab myself with a pair of scissors. Suddenly I felt something stiff drop from my liver and the pain was gone right away. That evening, I began to vomit again. I lost consciousness as I was vomiting. Right at that moment I wanted to say a few words to my family before I died. I wanted to tell them not to blame Dafa and that Dafa was very good. (Note: I had just started to watch the tapes and didn't quite understand what Dafa was truly about. My family didn't even have a clue. However, I just knew that Dafa was good.) After a while, I woke up. I vomited another two buckets full of stuff. From then on, I became healthier and healthier. In half a year, I gained more than 66 pounds- more than 10 pounds per month. This is another miracle. Witnessing my change, my family members were also fortunate enough to start practicing Dafa.

In my cultivation, I have realized that the evil cannot easily interfere with us when we have strong righteous thoughts. Before July 20, 1999, so many people began to practice Falun Gong and we were very short of Dafa materials. I happened to have a small bookstore, so I was able to supply some Dafa materials. When I supplied Dafa materials, I sold the books at the price for which I had paid and I never made a profit from them. Actually, I had to cover all of the expenses myself. Later, Dafa books were not allowed to be published. Many dealers published pirated copies. The evil fabricated rumors that Teacher had made money from the books. That was completely bogus. Government controls later got more and more strict. Staff from the Cultural Bureau constantly came to check the bookstores, so many bookstores did not dare to sell Dafa books anymore. Dafa books were therefore in seriously short supply. Two people came to me and told me that they had Dafa books. I then purchased Dafa books from them. I had never bargained with them, because I didn't think it was appropriate to bargain for such a sacred Dafa. I sold the books to practitioners at the same price that I had paid for them. I had not been interfered with by the evil for doing so. Many bookstore owners or persons were arrested or fined for making money from Dafa books. I realized what righteous thoughts and actions were: thinking and doing things in accordance with the Fa as taught by Teacher.

When clarifying the truth to people, we can do better if we always keep our compassion. We are cultivators and we are the ones who live our lives for the benefits of others. An enlightened being is responsible for the sentient beings in the universe, and our clarifying the truth is saving sentient beings. So, no matter what kind of people we are facing, whether they are officials or everyday people, we should save them all.

When we clarify the truth, it is better if we can start our topics from where their attachments are. I have consistently clarified truth to people who come to my store and this way has been effective.

Since July 20, 1999, my family and I have been clarifying the truth to people and more than a dozen friends and relatives have started cultivation.

(Clearwisdom.net) While the Fa-Rectification is moving forward rapidly, Falun Gong practitioners are realizing more and more that time is tight and precious and that our responsibility is great. How to clarify the truth to sentient beings and save those who are predestined has become one of the most important parts of the Fa-Rectification process. With wisdom endowed by Master and the great Fa, practitioners are maturing in clarifying the truth; more and more sentient beings are being saved. Truth-clarifying materials distributed in our area still include many articles published on web sites of ordinary people like Renminbao (The People's Newspaper) and Kanzhongguo (China Watch). Some articles don't even state where they originate; others have prophecies that predict what will happen in particular months. While I'm not saying that these articles have no value, they are not suitable for use as truth-clarification material by Falun Gong practitioners. Mixing these articles with our truth-clarification materials deviates from the teaching of Falun Dafa and blends human thoughts with the Fa rectification efforts.

The content of Falun Dafa truth-clarifying brochures should be limited to articles that introduce Falun Dafa in a positive way and information that exposes the persecution. I'm not saying we should never include material written by non-practitioners as reference or back-up material, but the less the better. Because we should only depend on Falun Gong practitioners to save sentient beings, it is not righteous to depend on others. As for materials discussing political issues, we should never make any reference to them whatsoever. Although the Nine Commentaries exposing the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party may appear similar to the political writings of ordinary people on the surface, they are different both in nature and purpose; we shouldn't confuse people by mixing these things together. For people in society, trying to change the political system by political means is not wrong, but when Falun Gong practitioners expose evil and clarify the truth, we are not pursuing any personal or political goals in this world.

Master has told us repeatedly why we Falun Gong practitioners shouldn't involve ourselves in any form of human political undertakings and why the things we are doing are not political. As Falun Gong practitioners, we should study the Fa more wholeheartedly. Only when we understand the Fa clearly will we be able to do better what we are supposed to do.

At the moment we are experiencing a special situation. After reading the Nine Commentaries and learning of the efforts to broadcast news of those who renounce their Chinese Communist Party memberships, people are finding it easier to understand the good wishes and compassion that Falun Gong practitioners have for them. They are now more accepting of Falun Gong truth-clarification materials and are more willing to believe the reports of the persecution that Falun Gong practitioners are suffering. Many Falun Gong practitioners are helping with the distribution of the Nine Commentaries and reports about people all over the globe who have renounced their Chinese Communist Party memberships. Since these are not Falun Gong truth-clarification materials, we should distinguish them as separate and only use them for special reference.

"At this final stage of Fa-rectification, our minds should be calm and stable, 'taking the Fa as our Teacher.' The only hope and the only thing that sentient beings can count on are Falun Dafa practitioners in the world today, so we should walk the Falun Dafa practitioners' path righteously. No matter how we validate and safeguard Falun Dafa and save sentient beings, we must follow Falun Dafa's requirements and we must not lower our standard, and even less should we conduct ourselves as ordinary people or even deviate from and damage Falun Dafa."--"Cultivators Should Not Form Attachments to the Fourth Plenary Meeting (With Master's Comments)"

In his comments, Master says: "This article is excellent. Its understanding of why Dafa disciples validate the Fa is lucid, the righteous thoughts behind it are strong, and it's logical and clear. I hope the Dafa disciples in Mainland China will all read it."

Let's read this article again and see if anything in our mind is not following the great Fa. Then we can timely rectify ourselves.

In his article, "Bear in Mind Forever," Master says: "This is not a problem of any particular person, nor is this to criticize any person in particular here; instead, this is rectifying Dafa. Bear in mind: Except for Dafa students' experience sharing conferences for studying the Fa and activities organized by major assistance centers with the endorsement of the Research Society, anything that does not belong to Dafa but is being circulated in Dafa undermines Dafa." (Essentials for Further Advancement)

In my personal view, since July 20, 1999, the Clearwisdom website has been functioning as the center of experience-sharing for Falun Gong practitioners worldwide and is the heart of our truth-clarification efforts. Master has always affirmed the role of Clearwisdom, particularly in these efforts. We should choose truth-clarifying materials that conform to the guidelines that Clearwisdom has laid out for us. Basically, we should only use material published on Clearwisdom regarding critical, if not all, issues. The articles on www.clearwisdom.net are the result of the coordinated efforts of practitioners from both Mainland China and the rest of the world. If we set aside these articles in favor of those that only represent individuals or small groups, are we really being responsible to the Fa; do we really trust and respect Falun Dafa practitioners as a whole body?

Time is tight and sentient beings are waiting to be saved. We should study the Fa more diligently and, only after we study the Fa well, will we be able to do our tasks well. In order to be responsible to ourselves, to all Falun Gong practitioners, to sentient beings and to the great Fa, let's strictly follow the great Fa that Master taught us and do well. "At this great moment in history, every steady step is a glorious historic testimony, and is incomparably-magnificent mighty virtue." ("The Disciples' Magnificence," Essentials for Further Advancement II)

(Clearwisdom.net) One day, feeling depressed and tortured by thoughts of fame, personal interests and human emotions, I sat on my chair thinking how wonderful people are who leave the secular world to devote themselves to cultivation. Once this thought emerged, I remembered what my friend had told me about Falun Gong three years earlier. Fortunately, someone in my workplace was already practicing Falun Gong and I was able to borrow several Dafa books immediately. That was in 1998.

I began reading Zhuan Falun in 1998. For two weeks, I read it through three times without rest, day and night. Two weeks later, I decided that I needed to learn the exercises. I found a practice site and went there. Someone asked me what kind of illness or disease I had. I replied that I was not there to cure any illnesses. Perhaps because I practiced cultivation not to cure any illnesses, the effect was very good. I felt that my entire body was filled with many Falun of all different sizes. The largest one was bigger than my entire body, and I felt my entire body encircled by it and following its circular motion. The smallest Faluns were the size of a pea. They were on my eyebrows, eyes, inner organs, lower abdomen and almost everywhere else as well. One night, I woke up from the cool breeze that was emitted by a small Falun in front of my forehead. Tears of joy and happiness flowed uncontrollably. After my Celestial Eye opened, I was able to see groups of Falun of different sizes all around me. When I rode in cars they would be in front of the car, and when I rode my bicycle they would also surround me.

I had been involved in a car accident previously, in which two lower segments of my spine were forced into one of the upper segments. Since then, a bump had formed on my spine. I can still remember the sound of bones cracking inside me. Several months later, when I was finally able to stand up again, the doctor said that I faced the possibility of becoming disabled in the future. Problems of bone protrusion and the pain that it brought about tortured me for many years to come. Two months after I began practicing Falun Dafa, while I was practicing the sitting meditation at noontime, I suddenly felt the crisp sound of my spine segments being pulled apart. Afterwards, I felt two people behind my back massaging my abdominal area. After approximately half an hour, the bump in my spine disappeared, and so did the pain. This was a miracle unexplainable by modern science. At that instant, uncontrollable tears of gratitude fell. I knew that it was my compassionate Master opening up my Heavenly Circuit.

In another instance, while riding my motorcycle on my way home with my son, a small car raced towards us from behind. One instant before the collision, I felt a sudden push on my right shoulder, saving us from danger. Since then, the sound of screeching brakes echoes through my mind and sends a chill down my spine. It was Master who saved my son and me!

(Clearwisdom.net) There have always been differing accounts of the death of Dong Cui at the Beijing Women's Prison in Daxin County. Ms. Dong Cui (also known as Dong Cuifang) died in March 2003 at the Beijing Women's Prison. The government produced various documents to show that Dong Cui died from lung thrombus. These documents include those written by Dong Cui denouncing Falun Gong, patient care records from other inmates, testimonies from prison guards claiming that Dong had self-inflicted injuries, and an autopsy report from experts. It appears that Dong's death case can not be challenged. But are the circumstances in the reported account what really happened?

Ms. Dong Cui, 29, was a graduate student in a medical school. She was also a Falun Dafa practitioner from the town of Xin'an of Gaocheng City, Hebei Province. In 2001, Dong Cui was arrested while distributing truth-clarifying materials about Falun Gong. She was illegally detained at Shunyi Detention Center in Beijing for two years. Later, she was transferred to the Beijing Women's Prison at Daxin County, where she was severely tortured. As a result, she died on March 19, 2003. At the time of death, her body was covered with bruises, and there was a hole in her head.

On the evening of March 18, 2003, Ward 3 supervisor Tian Fengqing and "collaborator" Li Xiaomei were trying to "transform" Falun Dafa practitioner Xu Na. Li Xiaobing walked in and said to Tian, "Dong Cui says she will not give up Falun Gong. What should we do?" Seeing that Tian was hesitating, Li Xiaomei said, "That's no good. It looks like we need to apply more pressure tomorrow." Tian immediately accepted this suggestion.

On the morning of the following day, Tian ordered Xi Xuehui to torture Dong Cui in the shower room. Afterward, Tian left the prison with the assistant supervisor of Ward 3, Ying Cuilan, to get an outside contract for work.

Dong Cui and another practitioner, Li Guanhua, were assigned to Ward 3 of the prison at the same time. Ms. Li Guanhua is still incarcerated at the prison. Chen Jing was in charge of transforming Li Guanhua, and Xi Xuehui was in charge of transforming Dong Cui. And it was not easy to transform Dong Cui. On March 18, for the second and last time, Dong Cui wrote statements under pressure and torture, denouncing Falun Gong. However, Tian Fengqing and Xi Xuehui believed that Dong's transformation was not complete. At around noon the next day, Xi Xuehui called together a group of people to a classroom, including Li Xiaobing and Li Xiaomei, and told them, "Dong Cui's renunciation is not acceptable. 'Take her down' in a while." Then they went their separate ways to have lunch.

Dong Cui was having lunch alone in the Prison Psychological Consultation Office. Ten minutes later, Xi Xuehui and another prison guard, Dong Xiaoqing, led the group of people to take Dong Cui to the shower room of an old prison facility, where she was viciously beaten. Unable to bear the beatings, Dong begged for mercy while lying on the floor. One of the collaborators said, "Don't believe her, she always lies!" They continued beating and kicking her as she lay on the floor defenseless. Later, Dong held her abdomen and said, "It hurts here." But the persecutors said, "Don't lie to us," and they continued beating her. Later, Dong stopped making any sounds. When Li Xiaobing stopped to check her pulse, she realized there was a problem. It was 3:30 p.m. The prison guards and the inmates tried to take Dong Cui back to the prison cell. As they were walking, Dong collapsed at the door of the building. So they carried her back to the Prison Psychological Consultation Office and put her on a small bed. Someone gave Dong some water. (Dong had begged for water while she was being beaten in the shower room.) After a few sips of water, Dong suddenly felt pain in her abdominal area. The guard summoned prison doctor Zhang Xiao from Ward 3. Zhang immediately measured Dong Cui's blood pressure, and was alarmed to see that Dong had no blood pressure. A few minutes later, an ambulance came and Dong was taken to Prison Dispatch Hospital, accompanied by a collaborator. Upon examination, the hospital declared that Dong had already died. There was a dispute over the death certificate. The prison wanted the hospital to state, "Dong died after rescue efforts failed" on her death certificate. However the hospital refused.

When warden Zhang Shushun saw Dong Cui's body, he reprimanded Tian Fengqing, "Is this how you transform practitioners? How can you beat someone into this kind of shape?" Tian was called to the hospital from her home to see the body. The same night, the assistant director of the Prison Administration Bureau, Gao Jianguo, visited the Women's Prison. Tian Fengquing told Gao, "It was all my fault." And Gao indicated that he himself also bore the responsibility. Thus, the officials prepared three different plans for inspection by the Procuratorate Office. Finally, the plan that they thought would be the safest and most reasonable was selected. The plan was to have prison guard Xi Xuehui and others testify that guards alone did the transformation work on Dong Cui. They also claimed that Dong's injures were self-inflicted. A few days later, Tian Fengqing and Xi Xuehui summoned collaborator Li Xiaobing and others who were involved. They were told to create a patient care record for Dong Cui. This so-called patient care record was modified twice before being finalized, and after each modification, the brand new notebook was intentionally made to look worn-out. The final autopsy of Dong's body concluded that she had died from lung thrombus. With all the proper documents prepared, Dong Cui's death was claimed to be the result of "natural causes."

Two months passed after March 19, the day Dong Cui died, to the day of her cremation, May 17. Is this normal? Were they waiting for the family to see the body? During this period of time, the Procuratorate Office sent people to investigate the circumstances surrounding Dong's death. They talked with Li Xiaobing and others. However, before their arrival, the people who fabricated Dong's patient care records were repeatedly told, "You do not know Dong Cui died. You only heard that she had anxiety, and was restless before March 19. She thought about suicide." At the same time, the news about Dong Cui's death was completely blocked. After the cremation of Dong Cui's body, the prison and Prison Administration Bureau arranged for everyone to provide the same fabricated story - "Dong Cui died of natural causes." But Dong's family remained unconvinced. They filed an appeal with the Discipline Committee of the Prison Administration Bureau, but got no results. When bureaucrats protect one another, who can get justice?

All the prison guards involved in this case were relieved afterwards. They thought that the Prison Administration Bureau had protected them. After this incident, Tian Fengqing was no longer trembling with fear, as she was on the night of March 19. She became even more unscrupulous and insufferably arrogant. During the SARS epidemic, she hysterically attempted to transform Falun Gong practitioners Yuan Lin, Xu Na and Gong Ruiping. For Dong Cui's death, Tian Fengqing had pushed all the responsibility onto Xi Xuehui. She reasoned that Xi was getting anxious seeing that Li Guanhua had been transformed smoothly while Dong Cui had not. In addition, Xi did not report the situation to her in a timely fashion so Tian herself did not know what had happened.

This may be why prison warden Zhang Shushun was relieved from his post, and Xi Xuehui was transferred, but Tian Fengqing was not affected at all. What price must a peasant pay to stand up to a government? His or her own flesh and blood? When the police kill, treating human life as if it were not worth as much as a piece of straw, and the bureaucrats protect each other by covering up the truth, there is no justice.

"To enforce the law with civility" are only empty words in the Beijing Women's Prison. We cannot let the lies from these corrupt officials deceive people any longer. The Prison Administration Bureau only protects the killers and deceives both their superiors and subordinates. A beautiful life was forfeited in their hands. Good is rewarded with good, and evil with retribution. For those prison guards who have the blood of Falun Gong practitioners on their hands, I want to ask, where are your consciences? And how can you sleep at night?

We want to tell everyone that the persecution still continues. Similar tragedies still occur. Supervisors Guo Yingchun of Ward 4, Huang Qinghua of Ward 8, and Zheng Yumei of Ward 10 are the executioners of the tragedies. It is said that such incidents also occurred at Qinghe Chading. The supervisor of Ward 9 there, Cao Lihua, has persecuted many Falun Dafa practitioners with various torture methods. The death cases are being investigated.

Zhou Ying, Deputy Warden of Beijing Women Prison, 86-13701383101 (Cell)
Guo Yingchun, Ward 4 supervisor, 86-13671386999 (Cell)
Huang Qinghua, Ward 8 supervisor, 86-13681292668, 86-13520328936 (Cell)

(Clearwisdom.net) I am a seventy-year-old woman who has been forced to be homeless for close to three years, simply because I distributed flyers that exposed the lies about Falun Gong being spread by Jiang's regime. On January 7, 2002, I went out to distribute truth-clarifying materials. Everything went well until I was posting a flyer with New Year's greetings on a wall. A policeman grabbed me. He interrogated me and asked where I got the materials. I did not tell him. He said, "I have ways to make you tell me. I can make you die after I get the information."

I only had one thought at that point. You will never get anything out of me. Then people were sent to ransack my home. They confiscated my Falun Dafa books and some informational materials and banners. Later they brought me back and locked me up in a small cell. After about 45 minutes, a policeman with liquor on his breath came over to me and said, "Old woman, can you see I have had a few drinks? I am capable of doing anything when I am drunk." Then he told his associates, "You guys watch her. Don't let her go to the washroom or sleep." And then he said to me, "I will take care of you when I wake up." After locking me up for 24 hours, he asked me, "Old lady, do you want to go to a brainwashing center or a detention center? If you want to go to a brainwashing center, it's 60 yuan per day. Ask your family to bring the money." I said, "I am not going anywhere. I don't have any money." They then threw me in the detention center.

I was locked up in a cell where 40 people were held. I was ordered to sit on a bench, recite the rules of the jail, and wear a prison uniform. But all practitioners refused to do it. Practitioner Ms. Lu Guozhen was from Hushitai. She had been interrogated several times, and each time she was tortured. As a result, her leg and back were immobilized. Due to the severity of her injuries, she was sent to the prison hospital for treatment, then sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment. She appealed to the Mid-level People's Court but her appeal was rejected. She was waiting to be sent to Dabei Jail after the Lunar New Year.

At the detention center, many inmates were interested in listening to cultivation stories and facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa.

My health deteriorated due to the horrible environment and the persecution. I coughed a lot, so I was sent with three other practitioners to the hospital, where they checked us, and a nurse forced me to take medication. I said to her, "I don't blame you since this is your job. But I am telling you that these medications do not work on me. Before I started Falun Dafa, I tried all medications and all injections that were available, but my illnesses never did improve. If you people had not abducted me here, I would not be sick. If you force me, I will go on a hunger strike." The nurse no longer forced me to take the drugs.

I stayed in the hospital for three days, where I witnessed the horrible scene of practitioners being force fed. Words cannot describe the brutality and the violence used during the force feeding. I still shiver at the thought of it.

I was released for medical reasons due to my age, my refusal to cooperate with them, and my symptoms.

Even a month after my release, I still did not have any peace and quiet. Neighborhood personnel and the local police stations harassed me constantly. They set up surveillance of my home. Every move I made was monitored. My husband was coerced to watch me. If he was not at home, he would lock me in. The police responsible for my neighborhood were disciplined and demoted because Falun Dafa practitioners were found in the area. Some of them were even made to go through study sessions. This is the implication policy of Jiang's regime. The purpose is to instigate hatred towards "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance" by those who do not know the truth and acknowledge the persecution of Falun Dafa.

Shortly after I got home, the local police ordered me to go to the public security station, and told me it was nothing serious. They even said they had some good words to say about me. When I got there, they asked if I was still practicing. I told them that as long as I live, I will practice. He said, "Ok, go home."

A few days later, he came back to harass me again, "The procurator would like to see you." So I went. They asked me, "Are you still practicing? You should think about it. As long as you write a letter of "transformation," you will be fine." I told them the same thing, "You don't have to ask me any more." Then they said, "Would you like to have a lawyer?" I told them that I had no money for a lawyer. Then I asked them, "Are you going to sentence me?" He said yes. On the second day I went there, I waited until 8 o'clock and did not see anyone except for a policeman named Liu. I asked him to pass the word that I was there. He said that it was useless to tell him. I suddenly realized the reason why they wanted me there. Isn't this for persecuting me? Why should I cooperate with them? So I was forced to leave my home and my family. With the help of other practitioners, I went to other villages.

When my husband did not see me, he went to the police to look for me. So the police then learned that I had left home. They searched high and low for me. A group of police even went to the home of my relatives. They coaxed my relative, "If you know where she is, please ask her to go home. She has been homeless for three years. It's not easy for a seventy year old. Ask her to go home for the New Year. We won't get her in trouble. "But then, they searched his three-bedroom apartment, including the washroom. In the end, they said, "We will suspend her pension starting August 2003 until we see her." In order to find me, one of them pretended that he was my son-in-law and called my relatives for my whereabouts. My husband fell sick due to their constant harassment, and he died on February 12, 2003.

Isn't this a tragedy? A government uses all of their police force to persecute a group of people who believe in kindness. They would not even let a seventy-year-old woman go. Whatever happened to the freedom of belief? Tens of thousands of practitioners in China have been forced to become homeless, and some even died or became disabled.

We hope that kind-hearted people will not ignore the persecution of Falun Gong occurring in China. We kindly ask them to support justice and help stop the persecution. Doing so will give people a bright future.

(Clearwisdom.net) Seventy-year-old Mr. Zou Huashan from Qidong County, Hunan Province, adheres to studying and practicing Falun Gong and believes in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. He was illegally detained and persecuted three times. In 1999, he was illegally detained in custody for sixteen days. In 2000, he was detained for five months and three days. In November 29, 2004, he was abducted by police and detained for more than two months. He was released after his family was extorted out of 2000 yuan.

Zou was often harassed at home by police in Baidi City. On November 29, 2004, when police came to his home for the second time, four police pushed and dragged him over one hundred meters away from his home. When his wife came to drag him back, a policeman shouted, "Drag him back and I'll arrest you too," then pushed Zou into the police car, and took him to the police station for interrogation. In the afternoon, the police detained Zhou in custody for fifteen days without presenting an arrest warrant.

On December 14, the day when the fifteen day period expired, indoctrinator Tang Qibing was going to put Zou into solitary confinement without food, but was persuaded by other people in the jail not to move Zou.

On December 15, Falun Gong students in the women's prison started a hunger strike. On the morning of December 21, the seventh day of the hunger strike, Zou was among those who were illegally interrogated but refused to sign. County policeman Wang Ximin (over 50 years old) kicked him, slapped him twice, and swore at him.

At the end of December, Zou's sister brought clothing for him but was not allowed to enter the jail. By January 13, 2005, Zou hadn't eaten for five days.

By January 18, 2005, Zou had been illegally detained fifty days longer than the original period. His face was covered by a beard, and his clothing smelled bad. The custody official scolded him saying, "Look at you, the Falun Gong practitioner who was supposed to be detained for fifteen days ended up being detained for three years. There is no law that applies to Falun Gong. We will detain you as long as we wish. You cannot appeal anywhere. There is no use in appealing. We will transfer you to a detention center at the end of the year."

On January 26, Zou's son, who had been working out of town, hurried back home and went to the detention center to take him home. He was extorted out of one thousand yuan to pay for "board." On the way home, Zou's son told him that he had handed over a deposit (fine) of two thousand yuan at the County 610 office. The original demand was for five thousand yuan. He had to give a certain written guarantee to have Zou released.

(Clearwisdom.net) On October 12, 2002, Dafa disciples Wang Jingchun and Wang Jinping, a couple who lived in Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, rode on a motorcycle to post truth-clarification materials along a highway. The police spotted and decided to arrest them. During the illegal arrest, the police shot at them twice (orders from higher authorities are that when the police see Dafa disciples posting truth-clarifying materials, the police can shoot right away). Wang Jingchun escaped danger with righteous thoughts, but the police confiscated the motorcycle, two helmets and the materials that the practitioners had not finished posting. The motorcycle is in the Liaoyang City Police Bureau.

At 5 p.m. on December 27, 2003, Dafa practitioners Wang Jingchun, Wang Jinping, Tian Weijun and Wei Guojun were arrested at the home of Xiao Zhuang in Liaoyang City. At first only Tian Weijun was at home. The Liaoyang City Police Bureau sent out more than ten police officers. They jumped over the gate, broke in, trussed up Tian Weijun and bound his mouth tightly by using a handkerchief to prevent him from speaking or warning the others. When Wang Jingchun, Wang Jinping and Wei Guojun arrived, the policemen immediately attacked them and brutally beat them. Several policemen used bricks to hit Wei Guojun's head, causing lacerations. The blood gushed from his head immediately and splashed all over his face and clothes. The policemen then brought the Dafa practitioners inside the home. They handcuffed the Dafa practitioners and continued beating them. Policeman Wang Qingyou used a large stir-fry spoon to hit Wei Guojun's head. Tian Weijun asked them to stop the brutality and warned them that by persecuting Dafa disciples they would bring retribution upon themselves. They replied that they did not care. A few other policemen headed directly to Wang Jinping and knocked her to the ground--beating and kicking her. They handcuffed her and dragged her to another room. After a while, Wang Jingchun was dragged back to the room. The policemen then handcuffed the Dafa practitioners together and a few policemen stayed to watch them. The others went to arrest Yao Mei and then went to Dafa practitioners Huang Yongjiu and Wang Yongsheng's place to illegally arrest them. Later these policemen sent the practitioners to the Liaoyang City Police Bureau for intimidation, interrogation and extortion. Each practitioner was kept in a separate room and all that people could hear were the sounds of people being beaten. The policeman Gao Fenghua held Wang Jingchun's head to hit against the wall and threatened him saying, "We don't need any law to treat people like you. If we kill you, we can just bury you right away." Another police chief said, "Wang Jingchun, let me break your leg and then let you run this time."

In order to intimidate Wang Yongsheng, four policemen split his legs apart. Two of them held him and the other two stretched his legs apart. Afterwards, his legs were heavily bruised and swollen and he had difficulty walking. Wang Jinping's face was also beaten and her face was bruised and swollen. Policeman Gao Fenghua forced her to run and if she stopped Gao would brutally beat her. She was then kicked down to the ground and could not stand up again.

At three to four o'clock in the morning, the Dafa disciples were successively sent to the detention center of Liaoyang City for continued illegal detention. When she was sent to the detention center, Wang Jingchun's eyes were so swollen that she could not see. She felt very dizzy and could not stand up. Wei Guojun's face was full of blood. Wang Jinping's lower back was beaten and hurt and she couldn't walk. Yao Mei could not even lift her own arms because of being hit. Later the policemen also arrested Dafa disciples Guo Xueguang, Zhang Xiulian and Wang Hongwei.

Wang Jingchun, Wang Jinping, Yao Mei and Zhang Xiulian started a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention.

According to information known at the present time, the two Dafa practitioners, Mr. Wei Guojun (from Tieling City, 37 years old) and Mr. Wang Yongsheng (from Liaoyang County, 32 years old) were illegally sentenced to 9 years in prison.

Some items were illegally confiscated from Wang Jingchun's room, including one color TV, one VCD machine, two motorcycles, one bicycle, 5300 yuan in cash, one cell-phone, one small recorder, two walkmen, one short-wave radio, all Dafa materials, cassettes of Master's lectures, truth-clarifying materials, one paper cutting machine, two staplers and one CD writer.

(Clearwisdom.net) The authorities at the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province are nefarious. They unscrupulously violate Falun Dafa practitioners' human rights.

On January 25, 2005, they transferred practitioners who refused to do slave labor into the "Strictly Controlled Group" in order to persecute them. Liu Yadong is the head of this group. On the same day he led a group of guards to search the practitioners, one-by-one. They forced the practitioners to sit on a row of plastic stools. Liu Yadong stood in front of the practitioners and said, "So, you won't work for us? Then sit here every day and study this [Dafa-slandering propaganda]! You won't just sit here, we'll extend your sentence!" The guards ordered inmates to monitor the practitioners and encouraged them to verbally abuse the practitioners. They forced the practitioners to sit upright and watch the brainwashing programs on TV.

Practitioner Ms. Su Yanhua is 50 years old. She grew tired so she relaxed a little. Inmate Xu Li, a prostitute, ran up to her and screamed at her. Ms. Su said, "I'm tired." Xu Li shouted, "You can't be tired!" She yanked on Ms. Su Yanhua's collar to force her to straighten her back. Guard Wang Guili said, "That's right, just pull her if she doesn't sit up straight!" Xu Li continued to shove Ms. Su around until she fell off the stool.

Practitioner Ms. Li Guiqin was emaciated and extremely weak from persecution. She could not sit for long, and the perpetrators didn't allow her to sit on a pad. The inmates shouted and dragged her around when she squatted on the ground.

Practitioner Ms. Ma Rujuan refused to write a weekly report required of inmates. On January 27, Yan, the head of the Administration Section, handcuffed her for several days and nights in a small and dark room. The walls inside were plastered with slanderous slogans. The inmates monitored Ms. Ma and didn't allow other practitioners to send her food.

Practitioner Ms. Xu Xianghua showed symptoms of heart disease. One day after lunch when she was walking upstairs to the classroom, she wanted to take a break because she felt tightness in her chest. Inmate Li Yongbo saw her and hit her head with a book.

The practitioners were forced to sit in a row from around 7:30 a.m. until 4: 30 p.m. They were only allowed toilet breaks once in the morning and once in the afternoon, aside from a lunch break. The guards order the inmates to monitor the practitioners.

One practitioner was handcuffed in the "forced backbend"(1) position six times

On November 7, 2002, this particular practitioner was subjected to forced brainwashing. Perpetrators Zhang Xiaodan, Sun Limin and Li Xiujin handcuffed her in the "forced backbend" position until she lost consciousness.

Later she turned in an announcement in which she said her brainwashing was void. The morning of November 10, 2002, perpetrator Li Xiujin and guard Ma Xinxin handcuffed her again in the "forced backbend" position until she lost consciousness.

The third time, in December 2002, perpetrators Zhang Xiaodan, Liu Yadong and guard Lin Wei handcuffed her.

The fourth time, in January 2003, Sun Limin forced her to write "guarantee statements" and handcuffed her until she lost consciousness.

The fifth time, in August 2003, perpetrator Li Xiujin handcuffed her because she refused to watch Dafa-slandering TV programs. Li Xiujin handcuffed her for over 50 minutes and refused to unlock her even when she could not bear the pain. Her legs and feet became dysfunctional because of poor circulation. Even now her hips, legs and feet are still numb, and her feet turn black and blue in cold weather.

The last torture took place on June 1, 2004. Because she refused to write a weekly report, two male guards from the Security Section shocked her with electric batons. Perpetrator Liu Yadong slapped her face and handcuffed her in the backbend position. Her feet have been suffering from poor circulation for over a year now.

On May 13, 2002, Falun Dafa Day, five practitioners including Ms. Bao Lixia removed signs at the labor camp that slandered Dafa and Teacher. Guard Zhu Tiehong took them to an office on the first floor and handcuffed them individually. They shocked the practitioners with electric batons and left them in handcuffs for 24 hours.

In mid-July 2002, the labor camp broadcast Dafa-slandering programs on the radio. They handcuffed three practitioners including Ms. Bao Lixia. Encouraged by Zhu Tiehong, guard Zhou Jiahui beat Ms. Bao and then handcuffed her for seven days. In late September 2002, guards Wang Xiurong and Li Xiujin handcuffed Ms. Bao Lixia for 14 days because she refused to wear the prison uniform. After 14 days, division head He Qiang handcuffed her in "forced backbend" position and would not release her until she wrote a guarantee statement.

On November 3, 2002, guards Liu Yadong, Lin Wei, and Gao Jie handcuffed Ms Bao in the "forced backbend" position in order to force her to write a "dissociation statement." Right after the February 2003 Chinese New Year, guards Hong Wei and Zhang Yan handcuffed her in the "forced backbend" position and compelled her to write guarantee statements. On February 26, eight practitioners including Ms. Bao were severely abused: they were handcuffed lying on the concrete ground, with their legs stretched out, for 25 days. Their ankles and fingers swelled up. After being released they all limped and their bodies ached.

Ms. Bao Lixia was also handcuffed for 25 days beginning June 26, 2003, because she refused to complete an assignment that slandered Dafa and Teacher.

Ms. Wang Yuhong is 37 years old. In late April 2003 she was handcuffed in the "forced backbend" position at Team 9 and was pressured to write guarantee statements. Guard Li Xiujin held a small pair of yellow handcuffs and said to her, "Now write the statements." When she refused, the guard said, "No? Then I'll put you in handcuffs!" Perpetrator Zhang Xiaodan tripped Ms. Wang, making her fall to the floor. Zhang Xiaodan, Sun Limin, Li Xiujin and two inmates handcuffed her to the side of a metal bed. Several minutes later, Li Xiujin told the two inmates to pull on Ms. Wang Yuhong's hands. When they pulled on her hands, the small cuffs cut into her flesh and caused great pain. They pulled her hands once every few minutes.

About 40 minutes later Li Xiujin opened the handcuffs, which again hurt Ms. Wang as the small cuffs had cut deep into the flesh. Li Xiujin said, "Now hurry up and write it." Ms. Wang refused. Li Xiujin and two inmates dragged her back to the metal bed, handcuffed her, and again tried to force her to write guarantee statements. Guard Yu Wenbin said, "I'll open it up if you just nod and say yes." Ms. Wang Yuhong shook her head. Sun Limin said, "If you don't write it, I'll leave and go home." Ms. Wang remained determined.

Another 40 minutes passed before Li Xiujin unlocked her. Two inmates held her hand and signed her name on a blank sheet of paper. Still in great pain, Ms. Wang pulled her hand back and her head hit the floor. Li Xiujin said, "Cuff her." Two inmates handcuffed her to the bed until 9:00 p.m., when she was allowed to go to sleep. Her hands were swollen and black and blue.

In February 2004, Ms. Wang Yuhong was "strictly restrained" at Team 8. She was forced to sit on a stool with her hands on her knees all day long for days on end. During the morning of February 20, the practitioners tore down Dafa-slandering signs on all four walls. Guard Hong Wei hit Ms. Wang on the head with a rubber club three or four times with such brutal force that she saw stars and collapsed to the floor. After the guards changed shifts around 9:00 a.m., the new guards took Ms. Wang to Room 1. Hong Wei and another male guard handcuffed her to the head of the bed. A while later, Hong Wei shocked her face three or four times with 300,000-volt electric batons. They unlocked her at 12:30 p.m.

In the afternoon, guard Sun Limin ordered Ms. Wang to curse Dafa and Teacher and promise to follow labor camp policies, but she refused. Around 2:00 p.m., the guards handcuffed her back onto the bed and told the inmates to move her hands once in a while. They unlocked her after 6 p.m. Then they cuffed one of her hands to the upper bunk and the other hand to the lower bunk. Sometimes they cuffed her hands in front of her and sometimes behind her back. They also forced her to sit on a stool while being cuffed around the clock. Guard Hong Wei told the inmates to monitor Ms. Wang and not let her wash or sleep. They pressured her to admit that she was an inmate and that she would comply with labor camp policies. She refused. They unlocked her after 18 days.

Now Ms. Wang Yuhong cannot take care of herself. She needs assistance with basic needs such as taking a shower and washing her clothes. She cannot raise her left arm. Despite her condition, she is still forced to work and has been threatened with a sentence extension if she doesn't work.

(1) The "forced backbend" is a very painful form of torture in which one arm is forced down the back behind the head and the other hand forced up to meet it from the lower back. The hands are cuffed together to cause unbearable pain.

On December 15, 2001, practitioner Ms. Cai Jinhua went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa. Police arrested her and placed her in the Haidian District prison. In Zhuolu County, the local division Secretary Liu Cun and other officers forced Cai Jinhua's husband to pay 3,000 yuan. They told him that the town's deputy secretary Zhang Huijun wanted him to pay for the receiving and transportation expenses in his wife's case. Her husband could only borrow 1,000 "yuan" from his work place to pay them. On December 18, police again arrested Ms. Cai and put her in the county lockup. During this time, Deputy Secretary Zhang Huijun and the local 610 Office continually harassed her family. They even threatened her husband, saying that she would be put into a forced labor camp. Her husband was so afraid for her that he borrowed 5,200 yuan to pay the authorities. However, they detained Ms. Cai for an entire month before finally releasing her on bail.

After she got home, Secretary Zhang Huijun assigned someone to watch her every day and sent police officer Zhang Jun to her house to disturb her. Zhang Huijun himself also constantly harassed her over the phone. Division Secretary Liu Cun tried to extort money from her husband frequently and made his work place manager deduct money from his wages. Since that time, against their will, 500 yuan has been deducted from their wages every Chinese New Year and festival. Eventually, Ms. Cai was fired from her factory job. Her husband then had to find another job in another city in order to support the family.

On April 8, 2002, Ms. Cai went to work with her husband in the other city. When the person who was assigned to watch her heard about it, he was afraid of being held responsible and quickly reported it to Deputy Secretary Zhang Huijun. That same day, Zhang, along with 610 officers, division secretary Liu and others, went to Ms. Cai's sister-in-law's house to harass her with the intent of forcing her to help them find Ms. Cai. They threatened to arrest the sister-in-law. In the afternoon, two police officers were sent to the school where Ms. Cai's 11-year-old child was enrolled. They mercilessly threatened the child, "If your mother doesn't come back, we will lock you up." The child was frightened and cried all the way home. Zhang then tried to deceive the families by saying, "As long as we can see her back here once, that will be enough. After that we won't care about this case anymore."

Her immediate family and relatives were deceived by the authorities' fake kindness, plus they could not stand the numerous threats and harassment any more. When Ms. Cai heard that her sister-in-law was in poor health and had taken a turn for the worse because of being harassed and disturbed by the authorities, not to mention that her child was not even safe from being threatened while in school, she decided to come home. On April 10 at 3:00 p.m. Zhang and more than ten 610 officers broke into Ms. Cai's house to force her to sign a guarantee statement to stop practicing. When she refused, Zhang said, "If you will not sign, then give me 3,000 yuan." When Ms. Cai stated that she did not have the money, Zhang said to the officers with him, "Since she doesn't have the money, we will proceed to the next step and confiscate her family's possessions." At this point she and her family realized that the police had already planned everything in advance.

The group of officials saw nothing in the house worth taking, so they ordered Ms. Cai to turn over the deed to her house. Fortunately, she had already hidden it, so there was nothing to hand over. The authorities could get nothing, so they became angry and called Zhang for direction. When Zhang heard that none of their plans had succeeded, he ordered Zhang Jun and others to "bring her here." They arrested Ms. Cai and sent her first to Zhuolu Town and then to the police station. At 7:00 p.m. that night she was locked up in prison.

Her sister-in-law saw Ms. Cai get arrested, so she went to town to try to get her out. Zhang said, "If you hand over 5,000 yuan we will release her." Clearly, the authorities in this area are illegally arresting people on any pretext in order to extort money from them and to execute their policy of "ruining them financially." [One of the policies of the CCP is to financially ruin practitioners and their families.] On May 14, Ms. Cai and ten other practitioners were sentenced to three years each at the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp in order to persecute them even further.

All of the guards in the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp were very vicious, and they tortured practitioners brutally. Whether physically or mentally, they never passed up an excuse to persecute them. On top of the torture, everyone there was made to work ten hours a day. On October 2, 2002, Ms. Cai's husband and child came to visit her from thousands of miles away, but the guards would not let them see her. When Ms. Cai managed to say a few words to her husband from a tiny window, guards restrained her and took her away . The guards then made her husband and child leave immediately. On May 4, 2003, Ms. Cai's father died. Her husband called the head of the forced labor camp, hoping that Ms. Cai could come home, since in China the law stipulates that it is legal for a prisoner to come home for an immediate family member's funeral. The labor camp authorities not only broke the law but also hid this news from her. On August 22, practitioner Wang Quanxing's entire family went there to try to take her home, but the guards would not allow it. On September 20, when Ms. Cai's husband arrived to try to take her home, he was also denied. The authorities in this camp even went so far as to confiscate all her mail to keep her from learning of her father's death. Ms. Cai learned about her father's death only after she was released from the forced labor camp.

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Li Guiling is a resident of Hanjiujuzi Tun, Songjia Village, Datun Town, Changchun City. After she began to practice Falun Dafa, she became very healthy in both body and mind. She was amiable and well respected among the residents.

Beginning in July 1999, Jiang Zemin utilized the CCP and various Chinese government entities to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, good people who believe in "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance."

In May 2000, Li Guiling and fellow practitioners went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to validate the Fa. They were arrested at the Appeals Office and sent back by Changchun 610 Office personnel for 15 days of detention. On February 5^th, 2002, she was tricked by Li Chengbin and others from the local 610 Office and was sent to the Xinglongshan Brainwashing Class for persecution. Later she was transferred to Jilin Province Heizuizi Labor Camp for further persecution.

Li Guiling suffered cruel tortures at the labor camp. Guards injected her with drugs that affected her central nervous system, causing her to live in a vegetative state. The labor camp notified her family to pick her up, otherwise they would send her to a mental hospital. After coming home, Li Guiling couldn't take care of herself. It was Dafa's power that enabled her to recover and regain her normal health not long after she came back home.

In April 2002 she went to neighboring villages to clarify the truth and distribute truth clarification CDs. Due to someone reporting her to the police, she was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor.

Heizuizi Labor Camp guards verbally abuse and beat Dafa practitioners who refuse to give up their beliefs. They often use electric batons to beat practitioners.

In April 2004, Li Guiling's labor term expired. The labor camp not only refused to release her, they sent her to Xinglongshan Brainwashing Class for additional persecution. On the way, guards incited other people to beat her.

After a week at Xinglongshan they took her back to the labor camp for further persecution. At present they still have not released her. Her family went there to ask for her release; the reply was that her term has not yet expired.

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Hao Zengyan (67) and his wife Ms. Zang Lanfen (66) lived in Beijing. Before they started to cultivate Falun Dafa, Mr. Hao suffered from many diseases, including high blood pressure and serious heart disease. He was sent to emergency rooms for medical treatment many times. Ms. Zang also suffered from many diseases, including heart disease. They worked in the same work unit, where they were known for always being sickly. After they started to practice Falun Gong in 1998, all of their diseases disappeared without further medical treatment. They no longer spent a penny of the work unit's funds for medical expenses. Everyone in their work unit witnessed their amazing health improvements.

After July 20, 1999, their work unit managers had many "talks" with them, trying to force them to give up their cultivation. The couple stated many times that cultivating Falun Dafa helped them to become healthy people, that Falun Dafa was good, and that Dafa improved people's moral character. However, because of the persecution policy, people have no freedom. The elderly couple was under much mental pressure. They could not understand why good people and such a good cultivation method was persecuted. Because of the prolonged stress and pain, Mr. Hao Zengyan died on December 28, 2000, and Ms. Zang Lanfen died on April 5, 2001.

Mr. Li Qixin was 57 years old. He was an employee of Zhanjiang Cold-Storage Factory, and lived in the residential area of Haibin Shipyard. After he started to cultivate Falun Dafa, he recovered from many serious diseases. In December 1999, Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested by the persecutors and detained for 30 days. After he was released, the persecutors monitored him constantly. Police from the local police station and 610 Office staff often harassed him. In May 2001, the persecutors forced him into a brainwashing session where he was tortured. The torture seriously harmed his mind and body, resulting in his old diseases returning. Mr. Li Qixin died in August of 2001.

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhou Qiong , 36, was employed by the Feixi County Cement Factory in Anhui Province. She previously suffered from terminal uterine cancer, but her symptoms all disappeared and she gained a rosy complexion after beginning Falun Dafa practice in 1997. She went to Beijing to appeal after July 20, 1999, and her home was ransacked many times by the 610 Office and police.

On April 25, 2002, Ms. Zhou was abducted by police from the Feixi County 610 Office while she was posting truth clarifying banners. She was detained, threatened, and tortured during her detention. She suffered a great deal, both physically and emotionally, and her symptoms of cancer resurfaced. She was released, and died on April 23, 2003.

Ms. Guan Suzhen, 52, was an employee of the Mining Cart Factory in Tongda Region, Tianjiaan District, Huainan City, Anhui Province. She went to Beijing twice to validate the Fa. She was detained, and suffered tremendously, both mentally and physically. She died in the fall of 2000.

Ms. Guan Suzhen's father, Guan Wenxue, 71, lived in Chezhan Village, Tianjiaan District, Huainan City, Anhui Province. He was heartbroken from the death of his daughter and died soon after.

Ms. Li Yajun, 69, was a teacher at the Paper Factory Elementary School in Huainan City, Anhui Province. She went to Beijing to appeal and to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa. She was taken to a brainwashing center and coerced to "transform." She was severely injured in both mind and body, and she died on February 13, 2005.

On the night of March 3, 2005, practitioner Mr. Li Ziran was arrested at the dormitory of his work unit in the Yueyang Sihuajian Valve Factory. He is currently detained at the Rongjiawan Detention Center in Yueyang County. Because he is being persecuted and tortured for his belief, Mr. Li went on a hunger a strike in protest. He is now in critical condition.

In early February 2005, Mr. An Senbiao went to the former Shengli Police Station (currently part of Babaijiong District Police Department) to clarify the truth. There, the police arrested him and sent him to the Longfeng Detention Center in Daqing City, where he was detained for over a month, while shackled in a small cell. In early March 2005, the persecutors transferred him to the No. 2 Division of the Daqing Forced Labor Camp. There, Mr. An went on a hunger strike, and was force-fed twice a day, even though he had been on the hunger strike for nearly 10 days. The brutal force-feeding caused serious physical injury to his body. Still, Mr. An resisted the persecution with strong righteous thoughts. Later, the persecutors in the Daqing Forced Labor Camp transferred him to Suihua Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province.

The Suihua Forced Labor Camp: No. 192 Zhibei Road, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, 152054

Xu Jiansheng: 86-13945503188(Cell), 86-455-8359618
Zhang Zhihui: 86-13786-4551999(Cell), 86-455-8313718
Meng Yan: 86-13804868771 (Cell), 86-455-8221861
Ji Feng: 86-13359911117 (Cell), 86-455-8322498

The persecutors in the No. 6 Sub-ward of the No. 4 Ward of Yongchuan Prison are forcibly trying to brainwash and "reform" a newly arrived practitioner. Gong Shiquan, the policeman in charge, ordered 4 people (including Liu Zhengwei and Huo Xiangbing) to torture the practitioner. According to a reliable source, the torture was so severe that the practitioner's leg has been disabled.

The No. 6 Sub-ward of No. 4 Ward inside Yongchuan Prison: 86-23-49306199. Director: Gong Shiquan

Ms. Cong Aidong is a resident of Yingkou City. She is around 50 years old. Ms. Cong was sentenced to two years of forced labor in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in 2001-2002 because she practices Falun Gong. During her detention, Ms. Cong was often tortured.

On March 8, 2005, Ms. Cong clarified the truth to a taxi driver, so the police from the Shengli Police Station in Xishi District, Yingkou City arrested her. Ms. Cong went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The persecutors sentenced her to three years of forced labor and sent her to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp again.

According to a reliable source, people from the local 610 Office arrested practitioner Wang Sanxiu at work on March 9, 2005, using the pretext of "publishing withdrawal declarations from the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers." Wang Sanxiu is currently detained in a forced brainwashing center.

Ms. Ren Xiufang is 39 years old. On March 17, 2005, she was arrested while distributing truth-clarification materials, promoting Falun Dafa, and demonstrating the Falun Dafa exercises in Houwang, Guiyu Town, Chaoyang City. She may currently be detained in the Chaoyang City Detention Center.

Practitioner Zhang Yong was sentenced to three years of forced labor in 2000 and detained at the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. During Zhang's detention, a police supervisor from the procuratorate's office, who supervises the guards on how to beat and abuse inmates, tried to force Zhang to write the Three Statements by stabbing bamboo sticks under Zhang's fingernails and using other torture methods.

Zhang was finally released on March 11, 2005. At around 10 p.m. on March 12, 2005, however, Zhang was arrested again when distributing truth-clarifying flyers in the Hedong District. Zhang is currently detained in the Hedong District Detention Center.

Practitioner Wei Wenying runs a pre-school. Wei is a resident on Tuanshan Street, Kuancheng District, Changchun City. On March 7, 2005, policemen from the Yangjiaweizi Police Station arrested Wei after they learned that Wei had clarified the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong to the students. Currently, Wei Wenying is detained in the Shuangyang Detention Center.

Practitioner Ms. Yang Yonglan is 50 years old and teaches at the No. 52 Middle School of Changchun City. On March 12, 2002, police from the police station near the Nanguan District Court arrested her and took her to the Criminal Police Division. There, Police Chief Gao Peng tortured her and then sent her to the Heizuizi Female Forced Labor Camp to serve a three-year term. At the labor camp, Ms. Yang firmly held onto her belief and did not yield to the torture and persecution. On March 12, 2005, when her term was up, the forced labor camp notified her family members to pick her up. When her family members arrived, however, they found that Liu Xin (Dean of the No. 52 Middle School), Song Deling and others were there with the police from the Erdao District Police Department. They forcibly took Ms. Yang to the Xinglongshan Forced Brainwashing Center.

Practitioner Zhang Bin is an employee of the Daqing Petrochemical General Company. Zhang was arrested in December 2004 and has been on a hunger strike for more than 50 days in the Daqing Detention Center.

Li Xingping (Dean of a primary school in Hongwei Town, Qiezi District, Qitaihe City)
Jiang Bingzhi (Changfa Village, Shiquan Town, Beian City)
Liu Mingshuang (a railroad worker in Nianzishan District, Qiqihar City)
Zhang Guangping (a farmer and self-employed worker in Hongwei Town, Qiezi District, Qitaihe City)
Zhang Peizeng (a worker at the Donghai Coal Mine, Jixi City)
Xie Chuanyue (a farmer in Haicheng Town, Zhaodong City)
Wu Gang (a farmer)

Practitioner Mr. Xie Mingyi is a resident of Jieguan Village, Mujia Town, Liaoyang County. According to Mr. Xie's family, between 9 and 10 a.m. on February 25, 2005, the police from the County State Security Division secretly arrested Mr. Xie and confiscated a computer, printer, scanner, all the truth-clarifying materials, and all Falun Dafa books. Mr. Xie's wife, who is also a practitioner, is now being monitored.

Mr. Xie and his wife both started to practice Falun Dafa in 1996. They have two daughters, one in first grade and one who is less than 3 years old. Mr. Xie's wife stays at home. His 74-year-old mother also lives with them. The family lives a difficult life.

According to Mr. Xie's wife, the Mujia Town Police Station helped the County State Security Division to arrest Mr. Xie. When she requested that the people from Mujia Town Police Station release her husband, they said, "The County State Security Division arrested him, so you should ask director Yan Hongwei and Miao Zhensheng from the State Security Division."

The Liaoyang County State Security Division: 86-419-7374004, 7374053
The Mujia Town Police Station: 86-419-7152204, 7154006
Yan Hongwei: 86-13904194498 (Cell)

Ms. Wang Dunhua is a resident of the Chengyang District, Qingdao City. She is in her 50s. The police arrested her on the night of March 14, 2005, for making truth-clarification materials. They also ransacked her home. Ms. Wang's whereabouts are currently unknown. Ms. Wang's husband is paralyzed and her son is mentally handicapped. They cannot take care of themselves and depend on her care.

Practitioner Zhang Shuyun and Han Naixiu were arrested on December 9, 2004. They have been sentenced and are detained at the Daqing City Detention Center. Zhang Shuyun has been on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

Guards Sun Juan, Liu Jianhui, and Zhang Yongmei torture steadfast practitioners from Group No. 1 in the No. 1 Female Forced Labor Camp of Shandong Province. In August and September of 2004, they lied to the practitioners' family members and said, "Because we need to furnish our new building, you cannot see them for two months." In fact, they were using some of the rooms to torture the practitioners.

The guards used tape to seal the practitioners' mouths, and then tied them onto the iron shielding net on the windows, with their legs in the air. The guards took turns monitoring the practitioners to not allow them to go to sleep or use the restroom. Some practitioners lost control of their bowels and defecated in their pants. Some lost consciousness several times, and some were tied up this way for more than 40 days. Many practitioners' legs become severely swollen from this type of torture. After they are released from the net, they could not walk for some time. Even after one month, they still limped when walking. They could not raise their arms either.

A practitioner in her 70s was dragged away from her work and tortured. A practitioner shouted at the guard, "Good is rewarded with good, and evil meets evil; persecuting Falun Dafa is against the heavenly principles." The guard then sealed the practitioner's mouth with tape, and tried to tie her to a chair. The practitioner refused to cooperate with the persecutors and sat down on the floor. The guards then stepped on her hands with their leather shoes and beat her legs, causing black bruises on her hands and legs. She was later confined in a small, dark cell for seven days and only released because she had strong righteous thoughts. The practitioner's hands were so badly swollen that she could not hold a needle. Her face also had many bruises.

A practitioner, Yang Chengmei, who is a college student, was sent to the forced labor camp in October 2003. Because she was steadfast in her belief, the guards tied her to a bed, pulled her by the hair and knocked her head against the wall, pulling much of her hair in the process. Her new hair had only grown out 2 inches by June of 2004.

When practitioner Ms. Zuo Yumei went to her work unit at the Qiaodong Housing Management Office, under the Housing Management Bureau of Tianqiao District, Jinan City, Shandong Province and wanted to withdraw from the CCP, her work unit's Party Secretary Tian Jiakui forcibly sent her to the 610 Office forced brainwashing session in the Tianqiao District. Ms. Zuo refused to be reformed and as a result, the persecutors transferred her to the Liuchangshan Forced Labor Camp.

The Qiaodong Housing Management Office: 86-531-6924141
The Housing Management Bureau of Tianqiao District: 86-531-6924545

According to a reliable source, more than 10 practitioners detained in the No. 4 Group of the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp have been on a hunger strike for more than 10 days. The persecutors in the labor camp have tightly blocked the information from getting out to the public.

Also, several guards from the No. 3 Group torture newly arrived practitioners with electric batons. It is said that a practitioner lost muscle control of her leg from this torture. Many practitioners have recently been sent to the forced labor camp.

On March 15, 2005, persecutors destroyed a truth-clarifying materials production site, and confiscated a photocopier. They also arrested Ms. Zhang Shuyun, who is 60 years old.

Practitioner Cong Huafeng used to be an employee of Hehai University in Nanjing City. In August 2004, Cong was arrested for distributing truth-clarifying materials. After being detained for almost half a year, the persecutors could not reform Cong. Recently, the Nanjing Police secretly sentenced Cong to three years in jail. Under huge pressure, Cong's spouse plans to divorce Cong.

Around 11 p.m. on January 4, 2005, people from the Qingzhou City 610 Office broke into practitioner Mr. Zhang Maosong's home in Lima Village, Heguan Town. They ransacked his home, confiscated several Falun Dafa books, and arrested Mr. Zhang and his wife.

On the night of January 5, 2005, the Qingzhou City 610 Office broke into practitioner Mr. Zhang Maoyuan's home, ransacked it, confiscated Falun Dafa books, arrested both Mr. Zhang and his wife, and brought them to a detention center. Mr. Zhang is in his 60s and lives in Lima Village, Heguan Town.

Also, on the night of January 5, the persecutors broke into the home of Mr. Zhang Chuanping, Mr. Zhang Maosong's son. Since Mr. Zhang Chuanping was not at home, the persecutors ransacked his home and took away his Falun Dafa books.

Mr. Zhang Maosong's wife and Mr. Zhang Maoyuan are still detained because their family members refuse to cooperate with and pay the persecutors who are trying to extort money from them.

(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."

I signed my name on a banner that was against Falun Gong when I was at elementary school. I did not mean it. Teacher, please forgive me. From now on, I will do my best to do the three things that Teacher asks the disciples to do, and make up for the blemish that I put on the Fa.

I am a junior high school student. I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises with my parents when I was six years old. When I started to go to elementary school, the Chinese Communist Party carried out their persecution by influencing the minds of the students in the education system in order to attack Falun Dafa. I was young and ignorant, and I once spoke in class against Falun Dafa. By using evil influence, I also persuaded my father not to cultivate. Now I have woken up to reality and I hereby declare that whatever I said against Falun Dafa was done under the influence of wicked forces and is now null and void. I hope Teacher will forgive me. I will strive to do the three things to validate Falun Dafa.

I am 15 years old. I declare that what I wrote and did against Falun Dafa while under pressure to do so at school are now void. I completely deny all interference and persecution by the old forces, and from now on, I vow to do well the three things that Teacher asks disciples to do.

Since July 20, 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong was initiated by the Chinese Communist Party, Shang Xiping and Cheng Shujie have been illegally arrested on numerous occasions. Mr. Shang Xiping has been detained six times and sentenced to do hard labor for eighteen months. Mrs. Cheng Shujie has been detained four times for periods of up to five months each. She was also sentenced to hard labor for seventeen months. Corrupt officials have also unlawfully extorted as much as 30,000 yuan from them, and both were also expelled from their work units. On September 30, 2004, the Public Security Bureau detained them yet again on a trumped up charge. With only fabricated charges, Mr. Shang Xiping was sentenced to a four-year prison term and Mrs. Cheng Shujie was given one year.

On March 14, 2005, the 610 Office and the Public Security Bureau from Huangpi Section together with Qianchuan Street First Detention Center, abducted Ms. Zhong Lingshen, 46, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Wuhan City, Hubei Province. Her home was ransacked, and household belongings including Falun Dafa books, Falun Dafa exercise equipment, a calculator, a dehumidifier and an electric stove were stolen from her. In 1995, Ms. Zhong had an operation to remove part of her gallbladder and bile duct, as well as three gallstones. In 2000, she again had to undergo surgery to remove a handful of gallstones. Her surgical incision didn't heal for a long time due to premature discharge from the hospital, after which she needed to remain in bed under the care of her family. Even though she was in extreme pain, she started practicing Falun Gong. Soon after that, her incision healed and she regained her health.

Ms. Li Shaoqing, 41, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Pitang Village, Shijiuling Township, Maoming Meihua County, Guangdong Province. Because of her persistence in practicing Falung Dafa, she was arrested, detained and sent to a brainwashing unit, where she was tortured. She was persecuted to the point that she became so poor that she could not afford to send her child to school. On February 2, 2005, Ms. Li was once more abducted by police and sent to a brainwashing unit. In protest, Ms. Li went on a hunger strike; on the fifth day police force-fed her. By the 20^th day of the hunger strike, she had become so thin that she was on the verge of dying. On February 5, 2005, the 22^nd day of her hunger strike, she was released from the brainwashing unit.

Ms. Cheng Hua, 58, is from Anshun City, Guizhou Province. On July 23, 2001, she was arrested and subsequently severely tortured for three months in a detention center. She was released after paying a fine of 2,000 yuan. On December 27, she was sent to a brainwashing unit for more than 40 days. On April 29, 2005, police from "610 Office" again abducted her and sent her to a detention center one more time. She was sentenced to three years of prison and is now imprisoned in Yangai Farm, Guizhou Province. Police there force her to do hard labor; if she refuses, they handcuff and cruelly torture her.

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The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong

March 7, 2005

Practitioner Mr. Guo Shijun from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province Tortured to Death
Practitioner Pei Shurong from Taikang County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province Dies after Detention
Dead As a Result of Torture: Practitioner Ms. Ge Peilin from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province
Appeal by Former "Outstanding" Policeman of No. 1 Group in Panzhihua's City Traffic Police Department
The Notorious Xinjin Brainwashing Class in Chengdu City Has Been Shut Down
Mr. Wang Xinchun from Yichun City Suffers Continuous Abuse after Persecution Rendered His Legs Disabled
The Three Young Daughters of Imprisoned Practitioners Fu Wenqing and Yang Min Lead a Difficult Life Without their Parents
Practitioner Ms. Sun Lin Violently Beaten and Dragged Behind a Motorcycle by Police at the Laixi Detention Center, Shandong Province
Brief News from China - February 15, 2005
Summery of Other Articles and News - February 21, 2005

March 8, 2005

Mr. Gu Dezhu and Ms. Liu Shenghua Died as a Result of Persecution
Four Falun Gong Practitioners in Zhejiang Province, Liaoning Province, Hebei Province, and Chongqing City Have Lost Their Lives in the Persecution
An Open Letter to the Residents in Shenyang City and to All People in Society: Please Help Save Ms. Ning Yuying's Family in the Huanggu District, Shenyang City
Exposing the Crimes in Tilanqiao Prison of Shanghai
Practitioner Huang Yonghui Tells of His Ordeal in Chishan Jail, Hunan Province
More Information about the Persecution of Practitioner Ms. Ding Yan in the Taihang Prison, Baoding City Prior to Her Torture Death
Situation of Shi Wenbo, Surviving Son of Jilin Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Shen Shuhua
Latest News from China - February 5, 2005
Latest News from China - February 17, 2005
Summary of Other Articles and News - February 25, 2005

March 9, 2005

Dalian Falun Gong practitioner Wang Zhehao Persecuted to Death
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Xuezhu Died as a Result of the Persecution
Ms. Zhang Meilian from Jiangxi Province, Ms. Zhou Shuqing from Jilin Province and Ms. Zhou Qichun from Hebei Province Died from Persecution
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Dongxia from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province Tortured to Death
Practitioner Ms. Xiao Yali Tortured to Death, Leaving behind Two Young Children
The Cruel Tortures Administered at the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp
Brief News from China - February 23, 2005

March 10, 2005

Tang Hanglin, Surviving Son of Practitioner Mr. Tang Jianping from Weiyuan County, Sichuan Province, Lives in Hardship
Falun Gong Practitioner Hu Yongfeng from Xiangtan University in Hunan Province Dies Unjustly Due to the Persecution
Five Falun Gong Practitioners from Henan, Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Hunan Provinces Died as a Result of Persecution
Wuchang " 610 Office" Personnel in Heilongjiang Province Extorted Several Hundred Thousand " Yuan" from 100 Illegally Arrested Falun Gong Practitioners
Brief News from China - February 7 & 19, 2005

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Du Borang from Suixi County, Anhui Province Dies from Torture
Elderly Practitioner Zou Yukun Beaten to Death by 610 Office Agents in Wuhan City
Ms. Zhang Zhumei from Tongliao City Has Died as a Result of Persecution
Falun Gong Couple Arrested in Hebei Province, Their Teenage Son Interrogated and Tortured
The Persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at Guangxi Women's Forced Labor Camp
Falun Gong Practitioner Deng Zhengrong and Others from Huaihua City, Hunan Province Are Arrested
Information about the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at the Changchun Police Station and Jilin Prison
Brief News from China - February 24, 2005
Brief News from China - February 27, 2005

March 12, 2005

Once Recognized for his Meritorious Military Service, Mr. Hu Jianhua is Now Imprisoned for His Belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance

Mr. Shi Zuosheng Tortured to the Brink of Death and His Wife Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Wuyi Township of Yitong County, Jilin Province

How Lu Zhenshan and Others at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp Killed Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Hong

After Giving Up His Practice, Mr. Wang Zhenfang Passes Away

Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Dailian from Shandong Province Died Because of Pressure from Local Officials

Practitioners from Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, Suffer Inhuman Persecution

Brief News from China - February 26, 2005

March 12, 2005

My Daughter's Name Means "Joyful," But She Is Very Sad
Mr. Zhou Decheng, 73, from Nong'an County, Jilin Province Died in 2004 as a Result of Persecution
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Shushan, Who Walked from Changchun City to Beijing, Died from the Persecution
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Gao Jun Dies Due to Persecution
Summery of Other Articles and News - March 4, 2005
Brief News from China - January 26, 2005

News and Events from around the world

March 7, 2005

Falun Gong practitioners visiting New York from the Midwest have been clarifying the truth of Falun Gong for more than six months at Manhattan's Union Square. Each day they distribute flyers and hold an anti-torture exhibition. Many people have taken informational flyers and read the information on the poster boards. After learning the truth of Falun Gong and the persecution, many people sign the petition calling for an end to the persecution, and discuss Falun Gong with their friends and family members.

As practitioners clarified the truth on Union Square, a man dressed in rags came to the area near the practitioners. He stood by the poster boards and yelled at the top of his lungs, saying that Falun Gong was deceptive and practitioners' efforts to reveal the true situation of the persecution was to fool people. He said that Falun Gong had accepted over one million dollars from the U.S. government. The practitioners remained calm and were not disturbed by his words. Some of them tried to clarify the truth to him and some continued to clarify the truth to other people. Yet the man yelled louder and louder, paying no attention to what practitioners said to him.

As the man continued yelling, several young western men asked the practitioners if they could shout out, "Falun Dafa is good" to override the man's voice. Practitioners said yes, they could. So the young men went to ask other people around the square to shout out with them, "Falun Dafa is good." A group of people who had learned the truth of Falun Gong called out together rhythmically, "Falun Dafa is good," "Falun Dafa is good!"

The man continued yelling, but as people also continued to call out together "Falun Dafa is good," his voice became softer and softer. In the end he went away, crestfallen.

Seeing that he left, people stopped calling out, "Falun Dafa is good." Those who initiated the action shook hands with practitioners and left in high spirits.

The dramatic scene moved practitioners. They knew that New Yorkers had changed. After learning the truth, people chose justice and conscience. They are now doing what they can to help and support Falun Gong.

Union Square is a place where many people freely express their opinions. People who advocate freedom of speech go there to give lectures as well as to encourage others to express their views. When the group of people was calling out, "Falun Dafa is good," a member from a group to protect freedom of speech mistakenly thought that practitioners were trying to stop people from speaking up their opinions. Roman, the man from the group, decided to challenge practitioners on a loudspeaker, "Why didn't you allow others to speak up? Why are you coming to New York? You have been in New York for such a long time. What is your purpose? Where did you get the money?" His attitude was very unfriendly. Many people started to gather around to listen.

The practitioners realized that this was a good opportunity to clarify the truth, and that clarifying the truth was the key to everything. Only when more people come to know the truth can their doubts be dissolved and questions answered. After Roman was done asking his questions, Sen Yang, a practitioner from Chicago said, "Can we talk about ourselves?"

Roman said he would be happy to hear practitioners express their ideas, so he lent his microphone to the practitioners.

Mr. Yang told the crowd why he practiced Falun Gong. He said, "The constant hunger that had tortured me for years disappeared without any medical treatments after I started practicing Falun Gong. Now the Chinese Communist Party is ruthlessly persecuting Falun Gong. Hundreds of thousands of practitioners like me are now living a difficult life in China. All we are doing is raising awareness about the persecution in China. I call upon people to work together to stop the persecution. It's not that we don't allow people to express their opinions, but that man was simply repeating the Chinese Communist Party propaganda, slandering Falun Gong. It is exactly the deceitful propaganda that sustains the persecution. We expose the lies to stop them from poisoning people's minds. I ask you to learn more about Falun Gong before making any judgment.

After listening to Mr. Yang, Roman's attitude changed. His original toughness and discontent was gone. This time he expressed his doubts in a calm manner, "I heard about the persecution, but I didn't really know what happened. You are not only working against the persecution in this place. We can see that Falun Gong practitioners are calling for an end to the persecution all over Manhattan. I believe you are doing so elsewhere in the country. You have so much manpower, materials, and the props (in the anti-torture exhibition). All this takes a lot of resources. And you have been hanging on for so long. One cannot help wondering where you get the money. Is it from the U.S. government? Do you have any political agenda?"

Facing Roman and the surrounding crowd of people, Mr. Yang sincerely told everyone, "Some people may feel that money is important, but I don't think money is the most important. I have my belief. Innocent people who share this belief are being persecuted in China every minute. I cannot ignore that. I have a Doctoral degree and work as a researcher, developing high-end technology in a big company. Therefore, I have a decent income. I am using my pocket money to clarify the truth in New York. Not only New York, but I have also been to Washington D.C., California, Geneva, and Paris calling for an end to the persecution in China. To me, money is not that important. People have to live with dignity."

Mr. Yang continued, "You suspect that the U.S. government may have given us money. Indeed they haven't. Had there been any government willing to support justice and to support us in clarifying the truth of Falun Gong, we couldn't have been able to let more people know the truth. The fact is, we haven't taken a penny from any government. Then how can so many Falun Gong practitioners make it? How did they come here? Where did they get the money? We can ask them."

Mr. Yang then gave the microphone to a practitioner next to him and said, "Can you tell us why you are here?"

The practitioner said, "I drove for 16 hours this past Thursday night to get to Manhattan from the midwest. Tomorrow night, we are going to drive 16 hours back, just in time for work on Monday morning. All the expenses and the materials we are distributing here are paid for by our pocket money. Why do we go through so much trouble, spending so much time and money to do this? Because we know what's happening in China. If you know how severe the persecution is over there, and if you had friends and relatives there who are being cruelly persecuted, you would also be willing to do whatever you could to call for an end to the persecution. We are doing nothing else here but just letting people know the truth, so that through our joint efforts we can put an end to the persecution."

When the practitioners spoke, the many people listening were deeply moved. Some nodded, and some looked at the practitioners with approval and admiration.

Xu Zhiwei, a 34-year-old software engineer working at Motorola took the microphone and pointed to an old lady standing next to him. He said, "This is my mother. She just arrived in the U.S. a couple of days ago. We haven't seen each other for eight years. After the persecution started, my mother was detained twice for attempting to appeal for Falun Gong. Her home was ransacked by the police and her passport confiscated. My fellow practitioners and I spent five years in our efforts to rescue her from China. And a few days ago, we succeeded. Please think about it. If your mother had a similar experience, are you going to attempt every possible way to rescue her, or are you going to do it only when people pay you? Without money, are you not going to help her? If your friends and relatives' lives are in danger in China, are you not going to rescue them unconditionally? Even if they are not your friends or relatives, when innocent Falun Gong practitioners are severely persecuted, shouldn't we do our best to help them? We didn't take any money from anyone, for money cannot buy one's conscience and responsibility."

Due to the persecution imposed upon Falun Gong by Jiang Zemin's faction, Xu Zhiwei and his mother, Zhang Cui, had not been able to see each other for eight years. With the efforts of overseas practitioners and the help of U.S. congressmen and senators, mother and son was able to reunite on February 1, 2005. An article in the Chicago Daily Herald, on February 2, 2005 said, "She missed eight years of her son's life, and the 'first times' in the life of her three-year-old grandson, i.e. his first word, first smile, and first step. He missed his father's funeral and has been missing his mother all along."

According to the Chicago Daily Herald, on Tuesday night at O'Hare International Airport, all the efforts of the past eight years melted into the tears and hugs between mother and son, who said that their separation was due to the persecution of their belief by the Chinese Communist Party.

Hearing what the practitioners said, Roman became friendlier. Still, he had some doubts. He asked the practitioners, "The persecution is not right, but will you allow other people to speak up their minds when you gain the political power? Those in power are unwilling to hear any different voices." A practitioner said, "We have never been interested in political power..." Before he could finish, someone in the crowd said in a loud voice, "It has nothing to do with politics. There is only one purpose for all this, that is, to stop the persecution!"

Falun Gong practitioners smiled. It seems that people have started to understand the truth.

The Q & A via the loudspeaker continued for some time. Several practitioners shared their stories and answered frequently asked questions. Roman said that he was not against Falun Gong, and that he condemns the violence inflicted toward Falun Gong by China's regime. The practitioners thanked him for lending them the microphone so that they could clarify the truth to many people.

Someone in the crowd said to a practitioner, "You don't know how many people are truly happy to see you here clarifying the truth. If you didn't step out to tell people the severity and authenticity of the persecution, people would not have a chance to know it, and they would just listen to what the Chinese government said. Please hang on and do not let yourselves be affected by random negative voices. More and more people will learn the truth. There will be a day when the power of justice will display, and that immense power is beyond the imagination of people."

"Yes," said practitioners afterwards, "Every day similar stories take place at different sites in Manhattan where practitioners are clarifying the truth. The stories reflect how everyday people are changing after they gradually learn the truth and are able to tell good from bad. The power of justice behind such changes will put an end to the most evil persecution and lies in human history."

Despite the evening rain, wind and cold weather, Falun Gong practitioners were at their stall on Sunday in Gifthorn's pedestrian zone. They were there to expose the brutal persecution happening in China, the land that this "cultivation practice" originated from, and to tell people about the suffering of their fellow practitioners in China.

These people are able to brave this adverse weather because they are practicing a unique meditation, which is a kind of qigong practice. They distribute flyers, CDs and Falun Gong newspapers free of charge from under a covered stall. Detlef Kosakowski explained, "We are all ordinary citizens. If time permits, we organize weekend information stalls such as this one in different city's pedestrian zones."

According to Luu Truyen, they inform the passersby not only about the torture and human rights violations in the far away People's Republic of China, but also about the Falun Gong exercise class, which is free of charge. The next group meeting will be in Braunschweig. For those who are interested, please check the German website www.falundafa.de for more information.

Switzerland: Collecting Petition Signatures to Rescue a Practitioner who is Wrongly Imprisoned in China

Swiss Falun Gong practitioners went to St. Gallen to let local people know about Falun Gong and the campaign of genocide that the Chinese Communist Party is waging against the practice. The persecution has lasted almost six years and has taken the lives of over 1,400 people.

This appeal actually had a special purpose. One of the local practitioners is a student at St. Gallen University. The student's mother is currently imprisoned in China because she practices Falun Gong. The practitioners collected petition signatures calling for this innocent lady to be released immediately and unconditionally.

The practitioners organized this event at the last minute and did not have much time to prepare their information stall. However, it was enough to have the sincere wish to help fellow practitioners in China, who are under threat of persecution, torture and even death for wanting to practice the Falun Gong exercises and improve their moral standards in accordance with the Falun Gong teachings of "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance." The impact of the information stall was very positive and many people came to find out more. They took leaflets, read the posters in detail and learned how former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin launched this suppression that uses torture, violence and other forms of persecution in cruel attempts to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their beliefs.

On February 25, 2005, Czech practitioners met in the Moravian city of Brno to tell the local people about the persecution against Falun Gong in China, which has been happening for almost six years and has claimed over 1,400 innocent lives.

After almost a week of unceasing snow, the clouds parted and the sun came out on the morning of the activity. Many people stopped to read the poster display boards, which detailed the methods of persecution and torture used in cruel attempts to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief. Several thousand leaflets were distributed and many people talked with practitioners and offered words of support. Around 200 petition signatures were collected calling for an end to the persecution.

Some people found it hard to comprehend the situation in China. They asked questions such as, "How can a government of such a huge country suppress a practice that is a precious root of its own culture and tradition?" and, "When people do these exercises, they get healthy don't they? So the government can only benefit from it. I can't understand why they persecute Falun Gong. That has to be evil!"

On February 26 and 27, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners from Nelson, Motueka and Auckland took part in the "Festival of Opportunities" held in the city of Nelson. This was an unofficial international event. Its major goal was to exhibit different ways to improve health and lifestyle. Many artists and musicians come to participate each year. This year marked the 14^th anniversary of the festival and it attracted numerous tourists from New Zealand and other countries.

During the event, Gina Shakespeare, a reporter from the local newspaper The Nelson Mail interviewed practitioners and published a large photo showing practitioners' meditating. Practitioners displayed posters and distributed flyers during the two-day festival to clarify the truth to visitors. The effect was quite good.

THE liberalising influences of the internet have helped fan the flames of democracy across the world, but in the closed political system of China, strict censorship and control of the media extends to cyberspace.

For specialists in China's internet controls, the National People's Congress this weekend is a chance to measure the state of the art of web censorship.

The authorities set the tone last week, summoning the managers of the country's main internet service providers, major portals and internet cafe chains and warning them against allowing "subversive content" to appear online.

Such actions are in keeping with a trend aimed at assigning greater responsibility to internet providers to assist the government and its army of up to 50,000 internet police.

"If you say something the web administrator doesn't like, they'll simply block your account," said Bill Xia, a US-based expert in Chinese internet censorship, "and if you keep at it, you'll gradually face more and more difficulties and may land in real trouble."

According to Amnesty International, arrests for the dissemination of information or beliefs via the internet have been increasing rapidly in China, snaring students, political dissidents and practitioners of the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong, but also many writers, lawyers, teachers and ordinary workers.

In the last year or so, experts say the country has gone from so-called "dumb internet controls", which involve techniques like the outright blocking of foreign sites and the monitoring of specific e-mail addresses, to far more sophisticated measures.

Newer technologies allow the authorities to search e-mail messages in real time, trawling through the body of a message for sensitive material and instantaneously blocking delivery or pinpointing the offender.

Other technologies sometimes redirect internet searches from popular companies such as Google to copycat sites operated by the government, serving up sanitised search results.

But many experts said the sophistication and sheer number of Chinese users was also increasing rapidly, making it ever more difficult for the censors to prevail. China has 94 million users and usage, most of it broadband, is growing at double-digit rates every year.

An open-air exhibition will be held in Belfast's Corn Market today and tomorrow to highlight persecution and torture in China.

Called "Persecution Meets Principle", the show has been organised by followers of Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline.

Advocates say former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin saw the popularity of the practice as a threat to his power and banned it in 1999, ordering systematic and brutal persecution.

The exhibition of photos, props and actors are used to explain how torture is used to attempt to "transform" practitioners.

Techniques used by the torturers include force feeding, burning with cigarettes, electric shocks and confining people in small cages for months.

The exhibition has already been shown in more than 15 cities and will tour the UK.

One of the organisers Christina Jing Ha said: "We believe that the persecution of Falun Gong is a persecution of conscience, and of fundamental principles essential to our humanity."

Local people will be asked to sign a petition appealing to the United Nations Human Rights Commission to urge the Chinese government to stop.

Mr. Guo Shijun was a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Hongqi Township, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. In 2004, he went to Dongfu Village, Dongguan Town, Shuangcheng City to clarify the truth, and was reported on. He was arrested by police and locked in the Shuangcheng City Second Detention Center. When arrested, his pockets contained more than 360 yuan cash and his family housing license. Mr. Guo's wife was already detained in Wanjia Labor Camp at that time, and thus their ten-year-old daughter was left home alone until his wife was released in July 2004.

Mr. Guo Shijun was subjected to brutal tortures in the detention center. He was later sentenced to three years of forced labor and sent to Changlinzi Labor Camp. Inside that camp, he was tortured by many means, that his back skin was covered with purple black marks from electric baton shocks; his buttocks were all beaten and misshapen. The uniformed guards forced him sit on an iron chair (1), first for 48 hours, then for four consecutive days, resulting in his buttocks becoming infected. He went on hunger strike three times to protest the persecution. He used to be a very healthy man, but after torture he looked like a completely different person.

On February 1, 2005 Mr. Guo was dying, and so the police sent him home. He was unconscious, unable to move, coughing, and in extreme pain. The police in the camp said to him, "No one would take care of you in our patient's cell, and you would have died in a few days. So you'd better stay alive here; we do not want to be held responsible for your death."

On February 3, 2005, guards from the camp came to take him for a check-up at the hospital. They had to send him back home, and said, "He has lung and liver cancers, and he won't live more than a week."

Mr. Guo Shijun died at noon on February 9, 2005, Chinese New Year Day. All the villagers know that Mr. Guo was very healthy before, but died after police locked him up for 18 months.

His death is another crime that Jiang and his regime have committed toward people who believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance." It is another blood debt owed by Changlinzi Labor Camp.

Phone numbers of Changlinzi Labor Camp, First Ward Leader Yang (male), 86-451-86888735; Wu Wenjin (male), 86-451-86900308

(1) The iron chair is made of iron pipes. Victims are restrained on the iron chairs with both arms and legs tied for a long period of time. See illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/9/17577.html

Ms. Pei Shurong was a Falun Gong practitioner from Taikang County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. On April 13, 2002, the local 610 Office and police arrested her from her home and locked her in the local detention center. After one month, she was sentenced to two years' forced labor. Police twice tried to have her admitted to the labor camp, but each time they failed due to her breast cancer symptoms. She was locked in the detention center for three months, her condition became worse after she was released, and she died at home in October, 2004.

Ms. Ge Peilin was 48 years old, employed by Jianglian Inc. located in Qingyunpu District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. She was persecuted multiple times before going to Beijing to appeal during the first half of the 2004. After her abduction back to Nanchang City, she was beaten up until her head was bleeding, lost consciousness, and died at the end of January 2005. More details of her story follow:

In 1999, Ms. Ge Peilin went to Beijing to appeal together with her younger sister, and was arrested on Tiananmen Square. She was detained in Xuanwumen Police Substation, where, against her will, the guards injected an unknown drug into her body. Interrogated alone, the guards beat her up. They punched and kicked her while another cruelly beat her head with a police baton. She felt blood on her skin, and then passed out.

Ms. Ge lived in the dormitory of Nanchang City's Boiler Factory. Police abducted her from her home multiple times to have her detained. The Boiler Factory withheld her husband's salary, and sent people to closely monitor her in order to stop her practice. The Factory Security Office ransacked her house, and took away her Falun Dafa book.

One day in 2001, Ms. Ge was abducted, sentenced to forced labor, and locked in the Nanchang City Labor Camp for the second time. She appeared to have high blood pressure, vomited, her face turned to a purple color, and she had cramps all over the body. She was sent to the Nanchang City Ninth Hospital. Even as she was dying, police still cuffed her hands and shackled her legs. She lost consciousness. The doctor said, "You do not have any conscience! She practices Falun Gong. It's what she believes in, so just let her be. She is dying! Who of you are responsible?"

Police threatened the doctor, "You'd better not speak for Falun Gong practitioners, otherwise you will be arrested." They saw that Ms. Ge was certainly dying, and left one by one with fake excuses. Ms. Ge's husband then found people to carry her home. On the evening of November 8, at 9 pm, more than ten police went to her home, took away many Falun Dafa materials, beat her up, and abducted her again.

During the first half of 2004, Ms. Ge went to Beijing to appeal. She was arrested and taken back to Nanchang City. She was beaten up until her head was bleeding and she lost consciousness inside the Qingyunpu District Police Station. She could no longer look after her daily needs, and died at the end of January 2005.

Xu Langzhou, male, 32 years old, formerly a policeman of the No. 1 Group in Panzhihua City Traffic Police Department.

Residence: at No. 5 / 201 No. 1 Wanyaoshu Village, Dahezhong Road, Renhe District, Panzhihua City

Sichuan Yanbian County Court criminal court: Xiao Wengang, Peng Yao, Hu Liantu;
Yanbian County Procuratorate: Xu Henggui, Tang Xinghua, You Fangping;
Panzhihua City 610 Office;
Policemen of the National Protection Unit in Panzhihua City Public Security Bureau: Qin Gang, Zou Yongjun, Huang Songjin;
Panzhihua City Detention Center;
Xinhua Forced Labor Camp in Mianyang, Sichuan.

The defendants are charged with discriminatory and violent behavior against the Plaintiff, circumventing laws, wrongdoing, and denial of the Plaintiff's fundamental rights, primarily denial of his personal freedom and freedom belief.

The defendants refused "to consider basic facts, and apply existing law." Defendants are charged with violation of "Ethics and Principles, which are the backbone of law enforcement personnel; violated China's "Constitution," "Criminal Laws," "Established Procedures," "People's Police Law" and so on. Further charges include, violation of established regulations, consent to violation of law, sentencing innocent people, and violating knowingly and recklessly fundamental human rights. Lastly, but equally important, disturbance and destruction of family of the Plaintiff, and causing pain and suffering.

The Plaintiff is the former policeman of No. 1 Group in Panzhihua City Traffic Police Department. He was assigned to oversee and resolve traffic accidents. He began to practice Falun Gong in 1994. He lived according to the principles "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Within a short time, his diseases disappeared and he became healthy. Before he practiced Falun Gong, he used to smoke, drink, physically assault people (especially drivers who had left the scene of an accident), and accepted free dinners, money and gifts. After practicing Falun Gong, he was no longer corrupt. He no longer accepted dinner invitations, gifts or money. He worked diligently and responsibly, was dedicated to his job, professional, and dealt with traffic accidents in a fast, professional and fair manner. He was recognized yearly as outstanding police officer. Panzhihua City Television also reported on the Plaintiff, yet this kind and positive individual is being repeatedly persecuted.

Since July 22, 1999, the government propaganda machine has publicized a series of reports about Falun Gong. The Plaintiff thought the media reports to be untrue, framing the innocent and fabricating lies. The Plaintiff trusted the government. He felt that to be responsible to the country and people, he had to appeal at the Appeal Office in Beijing. He wanted the true situation of Falun Gong to be known. Instead, he was arrested, unjustly taken to Panzhihua Detention Center and detained for several days. Afterwards, his workplace forced him to choose between Falun Gong and his job, and the Plaintiff chose Falun Gong and his job. In the end, he lost his job, because he persisted in his practice of Falun Gong.

On November 23, 1999, the Plaintiff appealed at Panzhihua City People's Government Appeal Office. He wanted tell the facts of Falun Gong's persecution, and clarify the truth. But, before he had finished, the staff of the Appeal Office reported him to the Public Security Bureau. He was arrested by Panzhihua City Public Security Bureau 610 Office, and taken to Dadukou Police Station in the East District, the police station of his permanent residency. That night, he was detained in the police station basement. There was no bed or stool, just an empty room. It was very cold, the Plaintiff was only wearing thin clothes, and therefore was freezing all night long. On the second day, he was sent to the detention center, and detained for a month.

In 2000, the Plaintiff practiced the exercises outside his home. He was arrested and detained at Panzhihua City Detention Center. Because he told the persecution facts of Falun Gong to other detainees, the police tortured him for 13 days. The torture method they used was the Death Bed -- his four limbs were stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed, with thick iron chains across his chest. He could not move, was not allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. It was very painful. On March 15, 2000, the Plaintiff was sentenced by Panzhihua City 610 Office to 2 years of forced labor, and sent to Xinhua Forced Labor Camp in Mianyang, Sichuan.

The Plaintiff suffered all sorts of physical and mental torture in Xinhua Forced Labor Camp. Because he was steadfast, the guards of the forced labor camp tortured him with electric batons of thirty thousand volts. They burned a hole into his skin with the electric baton, and one could smell the burned flesh. The forced labor camp tried all kind of torture methods to force the Plaintiff to renounce his belief. Several guards pressed him to the ground, tied him with ropes, and stepped on the Plaintiff's face, with half of his face pressed on small pieces of broken bricks. His face was injured and bled. The rope cut into his flesh. After he was tightly tied up with many ropes, he was left in the scorching sun of a hot summer. When he was released from the forced labor camp, one could still see the scars on his face, and the rope marks on his shoulder.

The Plaintiff was forced into slave labor at the labor camp. He had to fire brick and the temperature was unbearably hot. They forced the Plaintiff to pick up the brick when it was still scorching hot. One could light a cigarette on the brick. Regular clothes would all become red. Therefore, even during hot days, i.e., 30 to 40 degrees, workers had to wear cotton-padded jackets with long sleeves, which covered the hands, and long trousers. The sleeves were filled with car rubber tires. A youth, around 30 years old, could only pick bricks for two minutes, and most of the brick pickers were sick when they left that hot room. They had brick dust all over their body.

The weather was very hot, but the police did not give them any water. The Plaintiff could only drink rain-water. There were insects and the water smelled. It was not enough water to quench the thirst. When he was too thirsty during hot days, he had to crawl to the waste drainage and drink waste-water. This resulted in further torture from the supervising prisoners. Because of the lack of drinking water, people often fainted in the canteen during lunch-time. Whoever was released from Xinhua Forced Labor Camp said that it was living hell. He spent two years like that. Because he did not renounce his belief and his wanting to be a good person, his prison term was extended by nine months.

While the Plaintiff was detained at the forced labor camp, his wife could no longer bear the stress and divorced him. The Plaintiff, after his release from the forced labor camp, had bruises all over his body. He moved in with his sister. Police from the National Protection Unit harassed him for more than a year. The Plaintiff and his partners established a coating factory. Shortly after the production went into full swing, he again suffered from the persecution.

At 9 a.m. on April 9, 2004, when the Plaintiff was busy in the coating factory, policemen from the National Protection Unit of Panzhihua City Public Security Bureau arrested him. There were more than ten plain clothed policemen who did not present any legal documents. They put a black bag on the Plaintiff's head, and took him to the conference room on the 2^nd floor of Jingu Hotel at Area B, Xinxian Town, Yanbian County. They tortured him to elicit a confession. Policemen Qin Gang, Zou Yongjun and others hung up the Plaintiff for one day and night, and deprived him of sleep for three days and two nights. Qin Gang, Zou Yongjun and Huang Songjin took turns to interrogate and torment the Plaintiff days and nights. They did not dare to show the Plaintiff their identification. They did not record the interrogation period, place, names of participants and so on. They falsified the time as if they interrogated him only every four hours. The location was changed from Jingu Hotel to Yanbian County Public Security Bureau. The Plaintiff admitted to and signed the "falsified evidence." (Qin Gang forced Xu Langzhou to sign, he refused. Qin Gang then said: "If you do not sign, do not admit, I will kill you! Xu Langzhou was totally exhausted because of the torture and long hours without sleep and signed the document.)

During the illegal arrest, the policemen from the National Protection Unit confiscated Xu Langzhou's bag (it contained the account book, receipt and more than 3,000 yuan cash belonging to the coating factory). The police falsely claimed that the bag held Falun Gong materials, and did not reveal that there was money. Moreover, Zou Yongjun from the National Protection Unit forced a worker from the coating factory to forge evidence.

On September 14, 2004, Yanbian Court held an illegal trial. During the court hearing, the Plaintiff exposed the police. He recounted the torture he suffered during interrogation, and declared all his words and acts null and void, as his consciousness was not clear due to the torture. Because of "insufficient evidence," the court was unable to sentence him at that time. Also, public pressure stopped the face trial. On November 1, 2004, the court held a second trial, because of extreme pressure by the 610 office. The presiding judge ignored the inhuman torture during interrogation, falsification of the charges, withholding facts, lack of evidence, used the fabricated material provided by Panzhihua City 610 Office police, ignored existing law, encouraged the corrupt behavior of the Defendants, supported the persecution of kind people and sentenced the Plaintiff to eight years and six months.

Given the aforementioned facts, it can be established that the defendants contravened existing law. Their actions were in violation of the Chinese "Constitution" and existing "Criminal Law." Details include the following:

2. Disrespect of established criminal law include, but not all inclusive, illegal deprivation of citizen's freedom of belief, illegal detention, torment of detainee, eliciting confession through torture, false accusation and entrapment, and abuse of power.

The Yanbian Court is knowledgeable about the law and violated the law calculatedly. It sentenced the Falun Gong practitioner without due cause, is in violation of Provision No. 3 and No. 4 of "Criminal Law;" Provision No. 8 of No. 83 amendment, passed on December 28, 2002; Provision No. 397 and other Provisions. Provision No. 397 of existing "Criminal Law" allows for three to seven years imprisonment, depending on the seriousness of the crime.

The Plaintiff is an innocent victim of the persecution. He suffered irreparable harm, unlawful arrest, detainment, unfair and biased trials, imprisonment and torture due to the actions of the executors of the law. The judge knowingly ignored legal liabilities of the perpetrators of the injustice. The judge consciously sentenced an innocent person and bent the law to benefit injustice. The judge chose deliberately between personal power and the truth; between insensitivity and goodness and chose to forsake goodness and courage. The judge chose to forsake morality and justice, moved 100 degrees from being upright and just, handed down an illogical rule, and did not serve justice. Those who do violence to the kind are no doubt evil and the evildoers will receive justice.

The Plaintiff and his family members will appeal until exonerated. Plaintiff requests redress of the injustice he suffered. He asks the court to return to the path of truth, serve the people as stipulated under existing law, safeguard the sanctity of the law and carry out the responsibilities granted under the law.

The Plaintiff brings his appeal to the court, the procuratorate and all other levels within the court system, to ask for the return of justice, withdraw unlawful sentence, and unconditionally release the Plaintiff. Furthermore, the Plaintiff asks that the perpetrators of aforementioned crimes be brought to justice and served the appropriate sentence.

Appealer: Xu Langzhou
Cc: Sichuan Panzhihua City Intermediate People's Court
Sichuan Panzhihua City People's Procuratorate

The notorious "legal system school" in Chengdu City has recently been shut down, and three steadfast Dafa disciples were taken home by authorities on January 26. Some other Dafa disciples who are illegally detained may be transferred to other areas.

The "Legal System Education Center" was jointly organized by Sichuan Province and Chengdu City. It is actually a brainwashing center located in the remote Huaqiao area in Xinjin County. Right next to it is the "Women's Education Center" and the "Drug Rehabilitation Center." The brainwashing center was established in March 2003. During the last 10 days of April 2003, they started to arrest and place Dafa disciples in the center.

There was no bulletin board outside the front door . The metal gate is usually shut for the entire day, with security guards on duty. There were more people held here than in most jails. After practitioners were arrested, they were locked up in a 6-story building. The windows were only 15 centimeters wide. The first floor was locked every night at around 10:00 pm until the next day at 7:00 am. Dafa disciples were locked in small rooms day and night. Each room was tightly locked all the time. Practitioners were prohibited from seeing each other. Also, it was clearly stipulated in regulations that "practicing the Falun Gong exercises, making contact with other practitioners and promoting Falun Gong" were all forbidden.

There were four different methods used to illegally arrest Dafa disciples and put them in this center. The first was to kidnap them from their homes. They were also transferred from detention centers or labor camps. Third, they brought disciples from other brainwashing classes and fourth, they arrested practitioners as their terms were finished in labor camps. More than 500 disciples were held in this place before October 2003. We don't know exactly how many Falun Gong practitioners have been held there in the last two years.

Each practitioner had two "personal guards." One of them was assigned by the practitioner's workplace or place of residence. Another one was assigned by the village or town officer where the practitioner lived. These two people lived with the Falun Gong practitioner in same room at all times. One was assigned to go to the cafeteria to bring back food. If the practitioners needed to wash, to take a shower or go to the bathroom, they first had to get permission. One of the guards would go to check if there were any other practitioners out there. If no one was there, then they would agree to accompany the practitioner. These "personal guards" had to clearly record the practitioner's words and actions every day and report to a supervisor. Every morning and afternoon they played two CDs that slandered Dafa and Master. They forced practitioners to watch. At night they made the practitioner talk about his or her feeling of what was in the CD.

The brainwashing center also transfers assistants from the surrounding areas. Each would work here for half a year. Every practitioner was surrounded by one assistant and two guards.

Practitioners were forced to pay for a "meal fee," which was as high as 1000 yuan every month. They were also constantly threatened by staff and local 610 office workers. Each day "Street Security" sent some people in to harass the practitioners. They would frequently beat practitioners and subject them to inhumane torture. Anyone going on a hunger strike to protest would be tied up on a bed and force-fed with a hard tube poked into their nose until they would start to eat again.

An outsider would have no way of knowing what was going on inside, since information is tightly guarded. One case we do know of is a lady named Zhu Xia who is in her 30s, living at Apartment 1, 3^rd Unit, 4^th Building, No. 5 Jinrong Lane, Guangrong Sub-district, Chengdu City. She was taken to this brainwashing class by He Yuanfu, who is the head of 610 office in Guangrong Sub-district of Chengdu City. This happened right after she finished her time at a labor camp. However, now, having been tortured to the point of suffering a mental collapse, Zhu Xia has a habitual movement where she puts her hand against her head violently and screams loudly with fear, "Are you going to rape me?"

Who knows what exactly happened in that evil place? Zhu Xia was subjected to brutal persecution, and she encountered inhumane torture, both physically and mentally. Her suffering drove her to mental collapse. It was said that she was often not allowed to sleep in the brainwashing center for days at a time.

Senle Liu, a 53-year old Dafa disciple, lived in the No. 1 group, Guilin Village, Xindu District, Chengdu City. She was abducted by the 610 Office in Xindu and taken to the Xinjin brainwashing class. There she was persecuted until her health was in a precarious state. She died 3 days after she went home. On the afternoon of April 5, 2003 while she was with some friends in the new Guihu Park, Xindu District, Chengdu City, she was arrested by policemen and 610 office members. She was forcibly detained for 15 days, and the she was sent to the Xinjin brainwashing class for further persecution. In the brainwashing class she suffered all sorts of torture and physical abuse. When it was apparent that she was about to die, the authorities forced her family to give them 1000 yuan for her release.

On May 23, she was taken by her husband with other two people and a local secretary to her home. She came home without shoes, every part of her body aching, swells on her head, her chest bruised badly, her stomach swollen and in pain, and foam in her mouth. Three days later, she was dead. The local authorities, in an attempt to dodge responsibility, threatened her family, suppressed the news, made up rumors and said she committed suicide. They ordered the coroner to say that she died from a sudden epileptic seizure.

According to an insider, a couple named Li Xianwen and Yu Guiying are practitioners who lived on Gongnongyuan Street in the Longzhoulu area, Jingjiang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. They both encountered brutal persecution. The husband was persecuted to death in Xinjin brainwashing class. His death was covered up, so his mother didn't even know that he was dead. His wife could not bear the severe persecution in the labor camp and ended up with a mental disorder. She has now been sent home.

Xinjin brainwashing class has done all kinds of evil deeds in carrying out the persecution against Falun Gong. This was the most notorious place for persecuting Dafa disciples in Chengdu area. Lately, the Xinjin brainwashing class has been shut down.

On September 27, 2004, at 3:00 p.m., Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xinchun arrived at the Fengmao Forest Center in Yichun City in his wheelchair where he was seen by Wang Fengquan, a forest fire fighter. Without any explanation Wang Fengquan started to kick him and beat him up. Consequently, Wang Xinchun and his wheelchair fell into a ditch that was 2 meters deep. Then Wang Fengquan jumped into the ditch and continued to beat Wang Xinchun for another 30 to 40 minutes. Wang Xinchun's nose was bleeding and the side of his head, neck, chest, shoulder and his back were injured. During the beating, his watch was broken, his wheelchair was bent into an S-shape, and the remainder of his legs (he lost the lower half of both his legs due to persecution) were injured and bleeding.

Wang Fengquan reported this incident to his supervisor, Dong Shuhua, and policeman Wang Shoumin. Later, Wang Xinchun went to see Wang Fengquan's supervisor, Dong Shuhua, and director of the forest center, Gao Yuguo, to ask them for an explanation as to why he was beaten up and his personal property destroyed. But as staff members of the country, Dong Shuhua and Gao Yuguo did not solve the problem; instead they ordered Zhang Yukun to beat up him again.

Because the persecution caused Wang Xinchun to lose both of his legs, making a living became very hard. On November 2, 2004, he went the forest center to ask the director Gao Yuguo to return five hundred yuan of the illegal fine that the ex-forest center director, Wang Changqi, and the Party secretary, Xie Yonghui, had taken from his family while he was jailed in a labor camp for one year. The current director, Gao Yuguo, and party secretary Mr. Chen and their staff members, Liu Guangmin, Xue Senlin, Wu Jian, Zhang Cheng and others, started to beat him and planned to tie him up and put him into a coffin (his clothes and pants were all torn). They did not dare to put him in a coffin, however, because the inspector from Yichun City was around at that time and because Wang Xinchun continuously clarified the truth to them. So, they put him at the top of the stairs instead and left. When Wang Xinchun came back to ask for his money, the center director and the inspector from the city ignored him and left in their vehicles.

The next day, Wang Xinchun returned to ask for his money again, and again he was beaten up. The authorities even seized the receipt which had entitled him to the money.

Wang Fengquan was hired by forest center director Gao Yuguo to watch Wang Xinchun. He was paid 270 yuan per month.

Several practitioners were paralyzed or persecuted to death and more than twenty practitioners were sentenced to labor camp in Jinshan district.

Dong Shuhua : 86-458-3734505
Xue Senlin : 86-458-3700169
Zhang Cheng : 86-13845844224 (cell)
Wang Xiaolin (officer of Fengmao Forest Center): 86-458-3700209
Gao Yujie (staff in the mail room) : 86-458-3700107
Director of Fengmao Forest Center: 86-458-3700001

(To learn how Wang Xinchun was disabled as a result of persecution, see http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/7/20/50454.html)

Two days before the Chinese New Year of 2001, some time after ten o'clock, in Xinsheng Village, Xinxing Township, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, three little daughters of one family cried, "If you take away my father and mother, how can we live?" The youngest daughter, less than two years old, cried for her mother. Police were taking away their parents, Mr. Fu Wenqing and Ms. Yang Min. Fu Wenqing was illegally sentenced, imprisoned and persecuted in Hulan Prison. Yang Min was taken to the Women's Prison of Heilongjiang Province, where she is being persecuted for her belief in Falun Gong.

The 610 Office persecuted and broke up a stable and happy family. They separated the children from their parents, leaving them alone and uncared for. The secretary of the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) branch committee shouted: "I'll let you practice. I'll arrest all of you!" Fu Wenqing and Yang Min's oldest daughter, Fu Yangyang was only 15 years old at the time and was in middle school. She had to give up her school to help her grandparents look after her five-year-old and two-year-old sisters (the youngest one is named Yuanyuan).

At present, the 68-year-old grandfather has a broken arm and the 64-year-old grandmother has broken her hipbone. They are unable to take care of themselves. The youngest daughter, Yuanyuan is frightened and runs and hides when she sees personnel from the local police station. Her mental condition is very disturbed. The now 17-year-old daughter has to take care of her old grandparents and her younger sisters at the same time.

Fu Wenqing's youngest daughter Yuanyuan had a bump on her head when she was born. The hospital examined her and concluded that she needed to have the bump surgically removed. The cost of the surgery would have been 10 to 20 thousand yuan. Since the couple cultivates Falun Gong, the bump on Yuanyuan's head disappeared later without treatment. Fu Wenqing had severe headaches before he started to practice Falun Gong. He suffered extreme pain and had to spend a few thousand yuan each year for medicine to treat his headaches but could not be cured.

In 1997, Fu Wenqing started to practice Falun Dafa. He disciplined himself according to the principles of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Tolerance," to be a better person. Shortly thereafter, his headaches disappeared without treatment.

On July 20, 1999, the CCP and Jiang Zemin's political regime began to persecute Falun Dafa. Fu Wenqing was illegally detained four times. He was beaten and punished. On January 12, 2001, Fu Wenqing was again abducted and taken to the Second Detention Center of Shuangcheng City where he suffered all kinds of torture. One of his ribs was broken. Later, Mr. Fu was sent to Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp for one year. There, he had scabies all over his body and his flesh festered and he became disfigured. Fu Wenqing was subsequently released from the labor camp.

On February 9, 2002, after 10 o'clock in the evening, the Xinxing Township Police Station and the Shuangcheng City Police Department sent police officers to Fu Wenqing's home and abducted Fu Wenqing and his wife. The police lied at the time and said that the couple were being taken away for questioning and would be released soon. However, Fu Wenqing and Yang Min have not yet returned. Fu Wenqing and Yang Min were taken to the Second Detention Center of Shuangcheng City. The couple suffered brutal torture and both were illegally sentenced to four years in prison.

Government of Xinxing Township, Shuangcheng City: 451-53227506
Yu Guangming, the party secretary of Xinxing Township government
Zhang Yunlong, 610 Office head: 13303658099(Cell phone)
Bai Yuqiao, Staff of the 610 Office: 451-53297789
Guo Weidong, Party Secretary of Xinxing Township in charge of agriculture: 13115410199 (Cell phone)
Yu Zhenbuo: 13836067589 (Cell), 451-53227589 (Home)
Wu Lei, Head of Xinxing Township Armed Force Section: 13199491954 (Cell), 451-53229336 (Home)
Xinxing Township Police Station: 451-53227512
Liu Hongtong, Head of Xinxing Township Police Station, 13104636000 (Cell), 451-53164677 (Home)
Liu Xingwei, 13945630879 (Cell), 451-53229298 (Home)
Bai Chunwu, 13196221177 (Cell), 451-53227578 (Home)

Ms. Sun Lin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Laixi City, Shandong Province was abducted by officers from the Hebei Road Police Substation on August 7, 2004. Her home was ransacked and she was sent to the Laixi Municipal Detention Center. She was severely beaten by four police officers, leaving multiple wounds on her body. Later, both of her hands were handcuffed to a motorcycle and she was dragged behind it. Sun Lin went on a hunger strike to oppose the cruelties she endured. On August 16, she was so weak that she lost consciousness.

Sun Lin is now unable to walk, and can just lie on her bed. She still encounters harassment from the authorities.

Wang Shouhua, Head of the 610 Office in the City of Laixi: 86-13963970187 (mobile)

1. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ouyang Haiwen on Hunger Strike to Protest Torture; He Is Now in Critical Condition

Someone reported Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ouyang Haiwen from Wuhan City to police when Ouyang was clarifying the truth of Falun Gong in Wuhan City's Steam Turbine Factory. Subsequently, Ouyang was arrested and put into a detention center and later in the Jiang'an Brainwashing Class and other places, suffering torture. In January 2005, he was sent to the Hewan Brainwashing Class for further torture. Ouyang Haiwen has been on a hunger strike to protest; he is currently in critical condition.

Police arrested Mr. Liao Qiyuan from Guangxi Province who worked in Shenzhen City about a month ago. It is said that he is being held in Nanshan District's Detention Center in Shenzhen City.

3. [Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province] Lin Wuyong and Zhang Wenxue Arrested and Will Be Sentenced

It has been reported that practitioners Mr. Lin Wuyong and Mr. Zhang Wenxue from Zhuhai City who had been arrested many times were arrested again around September 19, 2004. Later they were put into the Meixi Detention Center. It is said that police authorities are planning to hold a trial for the two practitioners and others at the People's Court of Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City.

It has also been reported that Ms. Cai Yunxian, 68 years old, arrested at the same time as Lin Wuyong and Zhang Wenxue, has been sent to the Sanshui Legal Institutional Education School [in reality a brainwashing center], while Mr. Hu Yong has been sent to the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp in Guangdong Province.

On February 4, 2005, Ms. Zhao Tingyun from Xinxiang City and her husband and son went back home for the Spring Festival. On the way home they clarified the truth to people, but someone reported them. Personnel from the city's Nanhuan Police Precinct arrested them, ransacked their home and confiscated some cash and other personal belongings.

5. [Beijing] Jiang Ruishan Sentenced to Two and a Half Years of Forced Labor

At ten minutes after midnight on May 23, 2004, police arrested practitioner Mr. Jiang Ruishan in Beijing and ransacked his house. Police incarcerated him in the Fengtai Detention Center and later, on June 30, transferred him to Beijing's No.2 Detention Center, formerly the No.7 Division of Beijing's Police Department. Afterwards they sentenced Jiang Ruishan to two and a half years of forced labor and no family visit has been approved so far. Jiang Ruishan's work unit, the headquarters of the Bank of China, suspended his retirement pension on January 1, 2005.

The No.2 Detention Center, (the No.7 Division of Beijing Police Department: 86-10-87395100
Beijing Police Department: 86-10-85225050

Zhang Zhanhang, an officer from the EnjiZhuang Police Precinct, Haidian District, Beijing: 86-13901295638 (cell)
Enjizhuang Police Precinct: 86-10-88125030

On February 16, 2004, police arrested practitioner Mr. Jing Jun in Beijing when he was distributing truth-clarifying materials in a street and incarcerated him in Haidian District's Detention Center. Police confiscated computers, related materials and Dafa books in both his home in the Chaoyang District and at his parents' home in the Haidian District. No family visit has been allowed so far.

Practitioner Mr. Yan Sen, almost 60 years old, is a retired internal employee of the 159 Middle School in Beijing. In 2002, he was arrested from school and sent into Xicheng District's Brainwashing Class. After his release, he was arrested again in December 2004 by the authorities of Xicheng District Branch of the Beijing Police Department. No news about him at all so far is available.

Practitioner Mr. Shan Jiming was born on January 6, 1969. He was the chief of the communication station, the Command Center, and the headquarters of the Chinese People's Armed Police. Shan Jiming lived at No. 68 Lixin Street, Gaomi City, Shandong Province before he joined the force.

After the July 20, 1999, Shan Jiming was sent into a mental hospital for refusing to renounce Falun Dafa. He was force-fed and injected with unknown substances. In August 2001, Shan Jiming was held in Beijing's No.4 Prison. No one has had any news about him since.

8. [Liaoning Province] Wang Fang and Others Receive Sentence Extensions at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp

Practitioner Ms. Wang Fang from Jinzhou City was sentenced to three years of forced labor. The term was up by early October 2004. Because she refused to give up Falun Gong, her detention term was extended by four months. She should have been released by early February 2005; however, her term was again extended by one month.

Cui Yaning from Jinzhou City was sentenced to three years of forced labor, the deadline for which was December 28, 2004; however, her detention term was extended by about one year because she refused to renounce Falun Gong.

Practitioner Ms. Li Guijie from Jinzhou City was sentenced to three years of forced labor. The term was up on December 28, 2004. Because Li Guijie refused to renounce Falun Gong, her detention term was extended by three months.

9. [Yunnan Province] Gu Xiufen Arrested and Sentenced to Three Years of Forced Labor

Practitioner Ms. Gu Xiufen, 40 years, is an employee of Yunnan Province's Gear Wheel Factory. On January 31, 2005, police arrested her at her beauty salon (she works at the factory and also owns a beauty salon). Her family was not informed until they pursued the matter and made recent inquiries. They eventually found out that Gu had been sentenced to three years of forced labor.

10. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia AR] Practitioners Wang Guijun and Others Arrested

At noon on January 19, 2005, practitioner Ms. Wang Guijun from the Sonsan District was arrested. Her whereabouts are presently unknown.

At noon on January 18, 2005, practitioners Ms. Liu Fengrong who had been incarcerated for one year at Huhehaote City's Women's Forced Labor Camp was arrested, as was Ms. Dai Zhenyun from Songsan District. Their houses were ransacked.

11. [Guangdong Province] Two Falun Gong Practitioners from Hunan Province Arrested

In October 2004, two practitioners from Hunan Province (a male and a female, about 50 or 60 years old) took a chance of visiting relatives at Shakou Town's Village Committee in Yingde City, Guangdong Province to distribute truth-clarifying materials. Someone reported them; thus, personnel from Shakou Town's Police Precinct and from the National Security Team in Yingde City's Police Department arrested them. Lawless policemen confiscated all their Dafa books as well as hundreds of truth-clarifying flyers. They have then been sent back to Hunan Province for further persecution.

Related phone numbers: (country code: 86, area code: 763. Please do not dial the area code before the cell phone number)

Cui Jian, secretary and administrator, the Qingyuan City Police Department: 3382038 (Office), 13509266888 (Cell)
Xue Weichi, head of the Political and Security Section, the Qingyuan City Police Department, 3365837 (Home), 13602938471 (Cell)
Zhang Zhijian, the associate head, the Yingde City Police Department (in charge of persecuting Falun Gong): 2789383 (Office), 13602941728 (Cell)
Liu Weidang, chief of the National Security Team, the Yingde City Police Department: 2225907 (Home), 13902352887 (Cell)
Shakou Town's Police Precinct in Yingde City: 2551363, 2551368

12. [Beijing] Yao Huizhen in the Haidian District Arrested and Her Whereabouts are Unknown

In December 2004, practitioner Ms. Yao Huizhen from the Haidian District in Beijing was arrested and was later sent to a three-room house in the Chaoyang District for illegal detention. Two months have passed, but her whereabouts are still unknown.

At 8:30 a.m. on March 19, 2004, two men with surnames Su and Xie broke into Wei Guimei's home without showing any documentation. They confiscated a Falun Dafa Fajie (book) and several truth-clarifying pamphlets and forcibly took her to the company's security section office. Later they went back to Wei Guimei's home, searched and found a copy of Zhuan Falun and over ten pamphlets. Wei Guimei took the Zhuan Falun back.

Wei Guimei was just released from a forced labor camp three months ago. She had to lead a homeless life to avoid further persecution. Later she was arrested because she sent truth-clarifying materials to the Zhaiyuan Police Precinct in the Hecheng District, Huaihua City.

Related phone numbers: (Country code: 86, area code: 745. Please do not dial the area code before a cell phone number.)

Yang Chunhui, Hecheng District's 610 Office head: 2256992 (Home), 13973088099 (Cell)
He Yurong, Hecheng District's 610 Office associate head: 2258382(Home), 13974500557 (Cell)
Su Yong, chief of the National Security Team, the Hecheng District Police Department: 2233291 ext. 5811(Office), 2230719(Home), 13974501949 (Cell)
Zhaiyuan Police Precinct: 2714962
Huaihua City "610 Office": 2710851
Huaihua City Police Department: 2738000

1. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Wenping from Shunyi District Is Abducted Before the Chinese New Year

Ms. Yang Wenping from Dongzhuanghu Village, Yang Town, Shunyi District was tortured while in police custody until her legs were severely damaged. She was then arrested from her home again before she recovered enough to stand up. Her two daughters were crying and her mother-in-law was pleading with the police, but to no avail. Ms. Yang Wenping was sentenced to two and half years of forced labor, but later released because of her bad physical condition after enduring severe torture. Policeman Zhang Zhongyue (Deputy Director of Yang Town Substation) was involved in her arrest.

2. Persecution of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Guo-en from Hengshui City, Hebei Province

Mr. Wang Guo-en from Dasenxiaotun Village, Hengshui City, Hebei Province was physically abused by the local 610 Office and the police because of his persistence in cultivating Falun Dafa. On February 27, 2003, the police from Damasen Township Substation ransacked Mr. Wang's home and then arrested him at his relative's home in nearby Sunjiatun Village. On March 3, 2003, Mr. ÂWang Guo-en was sent to Hengshui City Detention Center, where he was shocked with electric baton twice and handcuffed with the hands behind the back for 28 hours. On July 3, 2003, he was transferred to Gaoyang Labor Camp in Baoding City. While in that labor camp, he was tortured many times. The worst occurrences were on July 14, 2003 and May 20, 2004, when he was brutally beaten on the head with a metal object.

3. Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Huang Yanjun, Ms. Zhu Yun, and Others Are Being Tortured in Masanjia Labor Camp

Ms. Huang Yanjun from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province is being tortured in Masanjia Labor Camp. At first, former practitioners who turned against Dafa took turns to beat her, three or more at a time, three times a day. They wanted to force her to accept the brainwashing by kicking her, holding her under a huge wooden board, hanging a plate or a bag of sand from her neck, ordering her to wear a high hat to humiliate her, stomping her while she was on the ground, making her remain standing for a long time, depriving her of sleep, hanging her up by the handcuffs, shocking her with electric baton, locking her up in a small cell (1), and putting an electrified metal hat on her head, and pulling her hair out. She was covered with injuries but still refused to give up her belief. They hired 30-40 policemen from out of town and tortured her in a secret room until she suffered a mental breakdown. Ms. Zhu Yun from Huludao City is also detained here, and she has been tortured with force-feeding since the spring of 2004.

4. Persecution of a Family in Yichang City, Hubei Province - Husband Died, and the Wife Put in a Forced Labor Camp

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tan Wenyan was 64 years old. In October 1998, Mr. Tan and his wife started cultivating Falun Dafa, and physical problems in his legs were cured within forty days. After the persecution began, Mr. Tan's employer and the local 610 office kept harassing him at home, finally forcing him to give up the practice. His physical condition slowly deteriorated. In October 2000, his wife went to Beijing to clarify the truth, and she was brutally beaten by the police in Beijing anddetained in Yiling District First Detention Center. While passing out truth clarifying materials in August 2001, she was abducted by policeman Xi Zhuxin. She was detained and then sentenced to two years forced labor. Mr. Tan could no longer take care of himself, and his condition worsened without his wife to help look after him. Mr. Tan Wenyan died in January 2003.

5. Ms. Li Yunxian, Ms. Zhao Suzhen, Ms. Liang Yuqin, and Ms. Li Suqiu Died as a Result of the Persecution

Ms. Li Yunxian was 83 years old, a retired teacher from Kaifeng City, Henan Province. She was harassed and threatened many times by the 610 officials, the police, and the Neighborhood Administration because she practiced Falun Dafa. Her daughter was abducted and sentenced to forced labor due to her firm belief. Ms. Li Yunxian died in July 2003 as a result of the stress placed upon her by the persecution.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Suzhen was 67 years old, from Shangshui County, Zhou Kou City, Henan Province. She was abducted by the County State Security Agency to Shangshui County Detention Center in 2000 while passing out truth clarifying materials. She was released several months later and died in January 2003.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liang Yuqin from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province was 66 years old. She was afflicted with many illnesses before cultivation, and her family members also had unusual illnesses. In 1995, Ms. Liang was lucky to find Falun Gong, and her whole family became healthy and harmonious. After July 20, 1999, when the persecution started, she lost the cultivation environment, and her old illnesses returned. She died on January 27, 2005.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Suqiu was 81 years old. Her diseases were gone after cultivating Falun Dafa. After July 20, 1999, the police tried to arrest her oldest daughter and came to her house to harass her many times. Ms. Li Suqiu was placed in deep distress and her health deteriorated. She died on May 30, 2002.

6. Four Falun Gong practitioners in Kangping County, Liaoning Province Died during the Persecution

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yin Shuzhen was 74 years old. She had been very sick and was taking medicine all year around. In 1995, after she started practicing Falun Dafa, her illnesses were cured. After 1999, the persecution started, the employer of her husband (retired, also a Falun Gong practitioner) often sent people to her home to try to force them write a guarantee statement giving up practicing Falun Dafa. Her son and daughter, both practitioners, were arrested while validating the Fa. She was deeply distressed and suffered a stroke. Ms. Yin passed away on October 30, 2004.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xuezhi was 77 years old. She had severe heart disease and diabetes. Both conditions quickly improved after she practiced Falun Dafa in 1996. She held her belief firmly and went to Beijing to appeal together with her husband and daughter at the end of 2000. Policemen from the local substation kept harassing her upon returning home, and her physical condition worsened. She died on May 2, 2004.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Kui was 71 years old and a former CCP Kangping County Committee member. He had a cerebral hemorrhage, but was cured after practicing Falun Dafa in 1995. After the persecution of Falun Gong started, his former work unit head Chen Gao and others often came to his home to intimidate and harass him, threatening him with disciplinary actions from the Party and withholding his pension. Mr. Chen refused to write a guarantee statement giving up practicing Falun Dafa, even under great pressure. His son, a non-practitioner, wrote one for him, which hurt him deeply. His old illness eventually came back, and he suffered a stroke. Mr. Chen died on February 19, 2001.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jin Qiuhua from Xiaochengzi Town was 36 years old. She went to Beijing to appeal in October 1999 and was detained locally for more than one month. Later, the local police kept harassing her at home, forcing her to write guarantee statements and taking her photo and fingerprints. As a result of constant harassment and intimidation, she died on October 2, 2004.

Mr. Gu Dezhu was a 60 year old Falun Dafa practitioner who was employed in Dayan Town, Juan County, Shandong Province. Before he began to cultivate in Falun Dafa in the spring of 1998, Mr. Gu suffered from many diseases, including heart disease, acute tracheitis and pulmonary emphysema. All these illnesses disappeared after he began practicing Falun Dafa. After July 20, 1999, people from the local police station and township government harassed him many times at home. The persecutors threatened him, tried to force him to give up his cultivation, and ransacked his home. In the spring of 2000, the township government sent four people to live in his home and monitored him around the clock for one week. Later on, the persecutors took him to a brainwashing center and detained him for ten days. They also confiscated Mr. Gu's ID card. The continuous persecution harmed Mr. Gu mentally and physically and he became sickly. He died in May 2003. By the time of his death, Mr. Gu's ID card was still in the hands of the persecutors in the township government.

Ms. Liu Shenghua was a resident of Beijing. After she started to practice Falun Dafa in 1997, the heart disease, from which she had suffered for many years, disappeared. In October 2001, the persecutors arrested Ms. Liu at her apartment in Beijing. She was then sent to a brainwashing center on Qinghe Street. After she was released from the brainwashing center, Ms. Liu's health condition worsened, and she became bedridden. However, persecutors from the local police station and residential committee often harassed her and monitored her at her home under the pretense of "visiting" her. On November 3, 2004, she died due to the prolonged mental pressure and physical torture.

Ms. Chen Yuecui, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Chongqing City, passed away.

Ms. Chen Yuecui, age 53, was a retiree of Chongqing Railway Bureau. Ms. Chen had peacefully and legally appealed for Falun Dafa in Beijing, and persisted in her cultivation. In the summer of 2004, the authorities lured Ms. Chen to the Retiree Management Committee and then took her to a Jingkou brainwashing center in Chongqing City. There Ms. Chen's mind and body sustained cruel persecution. After getting out of the class on February 22, 2005, Ms. Chen passed away.

Mrs. Wang Shuyun, a 65 year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Sanhe City, Hebei Province, passed away in 2004.

Mrs. Wang Shuyun lived in Zhanglaoxin Village, Sanhe City, Hebei Province. Before obtaining Falun Dafa in late 1997, Mrs. Wang had suffered a stroke in addition to having other illness. By practicing Falun Dafa, Mrs. Wang's health improved greatly. Her daughter and son-in-law practice Falun Dafa, too.

In 2003, Meng Hongli, head of the Gaolou Police Station, sent Ji Dawei and other police officers to search Mrs. Wang's house without a warrant. The police confiscated her property, abducted her son-in-law, and extorted 5000 yuan from her. Mrs. Wang was traumatized, and she fell ill. She passed away at age 65 in August 2004.

Mr. Geng Guodong, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, passed away in 2002.

Mr. Geng, born in 1974, started to practice Falun Dafa in 1996. He had applied the principles of Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance to all aspects of his life. He helped others frequently, worked diligently, and earned praise from people around him.

Since the onset of the persecution against Falun Dafa in 1999, Mr. Geng and his wife had written many letters to clarify the facts to the Jiaxing City government. However, their letters were never answered. Instead, the Jiaxing City Education Committee and police pressured them frequently to renounce Falun Dafa. The couple refused such irrational requests. Under intense pressure, they left Jiaxing for their hometown in Heilongjiang Province.

In July 2001, the police searched his house without a warrant, and confiscated his property, including a computer, two printers, a fax machine, a mobile telephone, and two recorders. Mr. Geng and his wife were abducted and illegally detained. Because Mr. Geng began vomiting blood during his illegal detention, he was released. The police refused to release his wife. Two months later, Mr. Geng became bed-ridden. Since Mr. Geng was near death, his relatives pleaded with the police several times, and finally they released his wife.

Although Mr. Geng was still ill, he and his wife and mother made a peaceful appeal for Falun Dafa in Beijing in 2002. They were taken back to Jiaxing City by the police. Since Mr. Geng could not walk himself, the police frequently dragged him on the ground. Mr. Geng passed away a few days after he found out that his wife had been illegally sentenced to one year in labor camp. Mr. Geng was only 29 years old.

Mr. Luo Fulin, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, died from persecution in 2001.

Mr. Luo Fulin was a Falun Dafa practitioner in Qianfusi Village, Puhe Town, Xinchengzi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. He was illegally arrested at his home on April 30, 2001, and then detained in a labor camp for one year. During this period, Mr. Luo suffered cruel persecution. On January 17, 2003, he passed away at age 59.

The 610 Office in Xinchengzi District, Shenyang City and the Xinchengzi Police Station have brutally persecuted Falun Dafa practitioners. Some practitioners have been beaten to death. Some practitioners have been crippled. Many of these practitioners have been illegally incarcerated. The persecution has deprived them of their jobs, and property, and homes. The local authorities keep constant surveillance on the practitioners, and many have been forced to attend brainwashing classes.

Dafa practitioner Mrs. Qu Guizhi was illegally detained and severely tortured. When she was released from the Detention Center, she could not speak even a single word. Mrs. Qu passed away soon after.

An Open Letter to the Residents in Shenyang City and to All People in Society: Please Help Save Ms. Ning Yuying's Family in the Huanggu District, Shenyang City

Did you know that there is a family near you that has suffered persecution and separation during the Chinese New Year holiday for the past six years? It is all because they want to be good people.

The family lives at the No.2 Apartment, on the sixth floor of Unit 8, Building No. 4, Wusan Residential Community, (Ningshan Rd. No. 66-1), the Huanggu District, Shenyang City. The male head of the household is Mr. Zhang Liansheng who is very diligent and likes to help others. His wife Ms. Ning Yuying is a virtuous woman and is widely respected by her colleagues and neighbors. Mr. Zhang Ming is their only son. He is a handsome boy who gets excellent grades in school and displays virtuous behavior. The family is really well admired.

The wife, Ms. Ning used to have neurasthenia, which caused insomnia. She was becoming thinner and thinner. Her condition greatly affected her daily life and work. She also suffered from other illnesses including a protrusion of her cervical vertebra, arthritis and severe gastric ulcers. In 1994, she was told during a routine medical examination that she had cysticercosis (tapeworms), a chronic and stubborn disease caused by eating pork infected with these minute parasites. It gets into and affects one's blood stream and muscles. The eggs of these parasitic worms can travel all through one's body along the blood vessels. After an uncertain incubation period, they start to grow. The only way to treat the disease is to undergo continuous operations to remove these parasites one by one. Cysticercus (the larval stage) has a strong tendency to propagate and is difficult to bring under control. When they proliferate in the brain, one's life will be in danger. After suffering through two surgeries, a CAT scan revealed that Ms. Ning's brain had several mature cysticercus and there were many eggs in her brain. As a result, she often had headaches.

Ms. Ning's family experienced great unhappiness because of her ailments. She suffered so much that she had a very bad temper. She would throw hot food in her son's face because of a minor matter. The sensible child would hide in the restroom to cry after such unfair treatment. She often regretted her own behavior and despaired more and more, since neither Western medicine nor Chinese medical skills provided any effective treatment.

August 15, 1995, was a day Ms. Ning's family will never forget. That day, Ms. Ning stood quietly in the residential community yard, saw a banner with the words, "Free Teaching of Falun Dafa" and listened to beautiful music. A harmonious and wonderful feeling arose in her. She had not had such a feeling for a long time. She put down the vegetables she just bought at the farmer's market and joined the serene crowd. That day, an assistant told Ms. Ning that Falun Gong taught people to be kind and good, which deeply moved her. Starting at that moment, a miracle occurred.

Within four days of practicing the exercises, after suffering extreme pain for several hours, the severe gastric ulcer that she had from for years disappeared forever. One month later, her other illnesses, neurasthenia, the cervical vertebra protrusion and arthritis were cured as well. Several months passed. One day she seemed to wake up from a dream and realized the cysticercosis was gone, without her even realizing it. The smile that had been absent from her face for years returned. That smile returned because of the unbelievable miracles that happened to her after she started practicing Falun Gong.

"Haven't I said that with one person practicing, the whole family benefits?" (Lecture at the Australia Fa Conference, Sydney, May 2-3, 1999) Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi's words are indeed true in Ms. Ning's family. After she started practicing Falun Gong, her son, Mr. Zhang, followed her to study the Fa and practice the exercises every day as well. The principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" benefited the young man's mind. He not only had excellent grades in high school but also home-studied five to eight college and university courses every year. He had a good reputation among his schoolmates and was honored as the head of the class as well as the chairman of the student association. He was awarded many honors.

On April 23, 1999, the police in Tianjin beat and arrested forty-five practitioners, which drew the attention of practitioners across the whole country. Some government officials in Tianjin advised them that, "the solution to this matter depended on the CCP Central Committee." Expecting fairness from the government, many practitioners volunteered to travel to Beijing to appeal. Mr. Zhang had just finished an exam in school and had more exams in the following days. Fifteen minutes after hearing the news, however, carrying his school bag, he left home and went to Beijing. After the "April 25" appeal incident was properly resolved, he quietly came back home. When the classmates felt pity for him because he missed the exams, what he said left some of them speechless, "If one is not permitted to be a good person, what is the use of studying well?"

On July 22, 1999, Falun Dafa was outlawed. The news was like inserting a knife into the hearts of millions and millions of practitioners. Ms. Ning and his son Mr. Zhang went to the provincial Party committee to appeal, however they were arrested and detained in the Wulihe Stadium in Shenyang City.

In October 1999, because the persecution was deepening, Ms. Ning and several other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. She was arrested and sent back to Shenyang. The handcuffs she was forced to wear left deep marks on her wrists. The police demanded that her husband, Mr. Zhang Liansheng, pay them for their "travel expenses." Two officers from the city police department showed them a piece of paper and told Mr. Zhang that his wife had borrowed money from them and he had to pay them back. Mr. Zhang gave them the money they demanded. Later he found out that this was a lie; his wife had never borrowed any money from them. When officers from the local police station heard the story, even they felt ashamed.

Ms. Ning was detained in the Shenyang Women's Detention Center and was forced to work for long hours every day. Mr. Zhang Liansheng and his son came to the detention center to visit her but the police refused to let them see her and told them, "No visitors for her. Just leave the money and go." Her son stood in the deep snow outside of the gate and called loudly toward the inside, "Mom, Dad and I come to see you. It is not wrong to practice Falun Gong. You will get out of there soon!"

That year, the father and son spent the Chinese New Year together in silence. Five months later Ms. Ning came back home. She had suffered a lot and had become very thin. She shared with the family about what life was like in the detention center. Besides the heavy labor each day, she didn't have warm bed covers during the cold winter days. The police confiscated all of the money that the family sent. She was not allowed to talk to people and not allowed to brush her teeth or wash her face.

The mother and the son started to clarify the truth to their relatives, neighbors, classmates and colleagues. Many people resolved their doubts about Falun Gong, stopped having the hatred that the propaganda had stirred up and were therefore saved.

On November 20, 2000, officers from the Taishan Police Station in the Huanggu District in Shenyang City arrested 18-year-old Mr. Zhang because he was clarifying the truth
to people. He was detained in the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City. The police searched Ms. Ning's home and left a big mess. They drank and ate; played poker and watched TV in her home. Before they left, using the excuse of "taking evidence," they took personal belongings worth 10,000 yuan without giving any receipts. When they were walking downstairs they complained, "This family is not as rich as the other one. In that family, we took things worth at least 20,000 yuan or more."

In April 2001, the police from the Taishan Police Station came again and sent Ms. Ning to the Longshan Forced Labor Camp. Both the wife and the son were taken away from home and the shock to Mr. Zhang Liansheng was so devastating that his hair turned white overnight.

At the end of 2001, Ms. Ning was sent back home from the Longshan Forced Labor camp, having been bailed out for medical treatment. The abuse there caused total body edema. Mr. Zhang Ming was later released as well, after serving his "prison term." The whole family finally was able to be together. The neighbors came to visit one after another and felt the injustice that had been done to them.

Because of instructions from the 610 Office, the local police kept coming to their home to harass them and order them to sign a guarantee statement. Not wanting to cooperate with them, and to avoid another arrest, on that year's Chinese New Year holiday, Ms. Ning and her son went into temporary exile, living in other places, so they could not be found.

In the year 2002, before the opening of the "16^th National Congress of the CCP," while only Mr. Zhang Ming was at home, Yang Min and several other police officers from the Longshen Forced Labor Camp pounded on the door and yelled, "Open the door quick. Otherwise we will break in!" The police went to Ms. Ning's work unit and arrested her there once again.

On May 8, 2003, personnel from the Zhujianlu Police Station, the Shenhe District in Shenyang City came to Ms. Ning's home. She had by then come out of the Longshan Forced Labor Camp. Several policemen dragged the only 4.9-feet-tall woman from the sixth floor to the police car downstairs. She loudly yelled out, "A good person is being arrested! What have I done for you to arrest me?" Since the police couldn't find any reason, they had to release her the next day.

Nevertheless, a few days later, several officers from the Shenyang Police Department and from the municipal 610 Office, led by Li Gang from the Chongshen Police Station in the Huanggu District broke into Ms. Ning's home. Fortunately, Ms. Ning and her son received a warning from neighbors and had already left the home.

The New Years holiday came again but Mr. Zhang Liansheng was the only one left at home, and he had to spend the holiday by himself. A news item on the Internet deeply hurt Mr. Zhang: "On December 16, 2004, Ning Yuying, the practitioner from Shenyang City, was arrested by people from the Tongle Police Station, Tongzhou District of Beijing. So far, her condition is unknown. No one knows her son's whereabouts."

Information emerged that the Beijing police had brutally tortured Ms. Ning. She was deprived of sleep and the right to use the toilet; she held a hunger strike to protest and was in very poor health. The Shenyang Police Department and Ningshan Police Station personnel had been informed of her situation; however, they did not inform the family. They wished to take over the case after Ms. Ning's sentencing in Beijing.

The list of persons and work units that were/are involved in the persecution of Ms. Ning Yuying:

Beijing:
The Tonglixincun Residential Committee, Songzhuang Town, Tongzhou District, zip code 101118, Phone, 86-10-89599012
The Tonglixincun Police Station, Songzhuang Town, Tongzhou District, zip code 101118
Phone, 86-10-69590859
The No.5 Detective Team, Pre-interrogation Division, Tongzhou District Police Department, Phone, 86-10-81591328
The Chaoyang District Police Precinct in Beijing, 86-10-65524936
The Criminal and Detective Team, the Chaoyang District Police Precinct, 86-10-85953570 or 86-10-64237407

Shenyang City:
The Congshan Police Station, the Huanggu District, Shenyang City, zip code 110036,
Phone, 86-24- 86842821
The Congshan Residential Committee, the Huanggu District, Shenyang City, zip code 110036
The Taishan Police Station personnel that has robbed and arrested dozens of practitioners, 86-24-86808152

In Tilanqiao Prison of Shanghai, Falun Dafa practitioners were formerly detained in Ward 5. Because the evil crimes of the guards at Tilanqiao Prison have constantly been exposed and Dafa practitioners resisted the persecution with righteous minds, Ward 5 has been shut down. Now Ward 2 is responsible for detaining Falun Dafa practitioners. Fu Kehu and Shen Yanrong, the former Party secretary and the former brigade head of Division 5 respectively, were reassigned to other positions elsewhere. The current brigade head of Ward 2 is Fei Chunlei; the political head of the brigade is Zhang Jian. The director of the prison is Qiao Liguo, who was appointed as delegate to the District People's Congress, largely based on his primary "achievement" in suppressing Falun Gong practitioners. The deputy head is Wang Dongsheng.

The brigade that detains Falun Dafa practitioners used to be the place for detaining criminals awaiting the death penalty. The original name was "Youth Experimental Brigade." It is a place with the most cruel management and punishment within the whole prison system in Shanghai. The brigade is located on a certain floor of the building with a long and narrow layout. The ends of the building are designated as the Eastern Section and the Western Section, with the guards' office placed in between the two. In an attempt to further break down Falun Dafa practitioners, the guards incarcerate those who had been "transformed" in the Western Section, where a "relaxed management" is adopted. Those who steadfastly refuse to be transformed are detained in the Eastern Section, where the so-called "strict management" is applied. In order to stir up psychological terror and to prevent Falun Dafa practitioners from sharing with one another, the staff in Tilanqiao Prison ordered three criminal inmates to monitor and abuse Falun Dafa practitioners 24 hours a day.

The guards subject firm Falun Dafa practitioners to long-term incarceration in a small cell of 3.3 square meters (35 square feet). The longest term was four years, as in the case of practitioner Zhou Bin. The detainee is not allowed to get out at all. Eating, sleeping and using the toilet are all restricted to the cell. The guards force the detainee to get up at 5:30 a.m. and to sit still with both hands behind the back. The detainee is forced to take different postures, including crouching with both hands handcuffed behind the back, being forced to listen to recordings slandering Dafa for long periods of time with earphones, sitting on the floor with both legs bound together or sitting on a small bowl. All kinds of violent ways have been used to forcibly "transform" practitioners. Criminal inmate Hu Kaifeng beat Falun Dafa practitioner Tao Xiangwei four times a day - in the morning, at noon, in the evening, and at midnight. He even dunked Mr. Tao's head in the toilet bowl. Practitioners who are still not transformed and whose prison terms are up within a month are targets of brutal beating by Hu Kaifeng. The criminal inmates resort to violence and torture practitioners who persevere in doing the exercises and go on hunger strikes to protest the persecution.

Practitioner Hua Wei had been beaten three times by a group of four to six inmates until his legs turned bluish all over. Practitioners Yang Jiuqing and Zhang Qin had been brutalized by a gang of criminal inmates to the point of their bodies swelled up and turned purplish all over. Practitioner Du Ting went on a hunger strike for 431 days. When he tried to shout out words in support of Dafa, the criminals choked him until he passed out. When he was force-fed, the perpetrator dragged Mr. Du across the cement ground, seriously abrading and injuring his skin. Practitioner Xiong Wenqi also went on a hunger strike for 431 days. His hands and legs were bound 24 hours a day. Practitioner Qu Yanlai had been beaten numerous times in Ward 8, where guards often held so-called "comment and evaluation" meetings to viciously slander and attack Falun Gong. For those practitioners who refused to listen to the slander, the guards would force them to wear earphones to listen. For those very determined practitioners, the guards would transfer them to other wards for even more brutal torture.

Mr. Zhang Yiming, about 46 years old, is a practitioner from Putuo District, Shanghai. He was arrested in October 2000 and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Zhang Yiming upheld his belief in Falun Dafa firmly in Tilanqiao Prison from the very first day of his incarceration. Even the guards in the prison inwardly admired him. He was illegally incarcerated in the "Youth Experimental Brigade" until 2004. Because Mr. Zhang stayed firm and no one could transform him, the guards transferred him to Ward 6. He was forced to perform heavy labor every day and he also suffered from cruel mental and spiritual persecution every day.

Practitioner Mr. Zhou Bin is about 35 years old. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment. Because he protested the persecution many times, the guards often beat him to the point that his bones were fractured in numerous places. The guards considered him to be very "stubborn" and mobilized many people to denounce him. From the first day when Zhou Bin was incarcerated in Tilanqiao Prison, he has never been allowed to go outside for fresh air, nor has he been allowed to take a shower. His legal rights to be visited by family and friends are completely denied. Sometimes, the criminal inmates broke into his cell to beat him. Zhou Bin never stops appealing to various levels of higher authority. He announces to everyone that Falun Dafa is the great law of the universe. Because Zhou Bin keeps appealing, he has become a headache to the guards. Simply because Zhou Bin curved his legs when he was asleep, the criminal inmate in charge of monitoring him reported to guards that Zhou Bin was practicing the exercises. The guards then ordered a criminal to beat him and handcuffed Zhou Bin tightly when he was detained in the small cell. This torture still continues to this present day.

Practitioner Mr. Yu Lei is around 42 years old. In order to resist the cruel persecution, he went on a hunger strike starting December 15, 2004. He has been on a hunger strike for 46 days.

Practitioner Mr. Wu Wenming is 35 years old. He used to work in the Jinshan District Court of Shanghai. In December 2002, he was arrested and was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment. Guard Ou Ligang placed a big TV at the door of Wu Wenming's cell and installed a big speaker inside the cell. He then continuously played the slanderous videotapes so that Wu Wenming was living in a very noisy and disturbing environment day in and day out.

Practitioner Mr. Jiang Yexiang is 27 years old. In November 2004, he began a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guard even came up with the plan to test the physical threshold of a human being using Jiang Yexiang as an experimental subject. For ten days, the guard didn't do anything and stayed indifferent. Ten days later, he force-fed Jiang Yexiang. As of now, Jiang Yexiang is still on a hunger strike.

III. Partial list of male Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned at Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison

Name	Age	Education Received	Home Town	Address	Arrested by	Arrest Date	Sentenced by	Sentence Date	Prison Term	Beginning Date	Expiration Date
Chen Mingliang	29	College	Gejiu City, Yunnan Province	Room 501, No. 32, Lane 166, Feng Zhuang bei Road, Jiading District, Shanghai	Shanghai Putuo District Police Dept.	2002-11-02	Shanghai Putuo District People's Court	2003-06-24	04	2002-10-05	2006-10-04
Chen Yonggen	47	High School	Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province	Room 403, 2 Zizhuyuan, Lane 948, Pubei Road, Pudong New District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2001-08-01	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2002-05-15	08	2001-06-26	2009-06-25
Chen Zhengguo	57	High School		Room 403, No. 44 of Lane 785, Jinyang Road Pudong New District, Shanghai	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2001-01-24	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2001-11-16	07	2000-12-19	2007-12-18
Qiu Shen	45	College	Shanghai	Room 203, No. 14 of Lane 261, Taopu Road Putuo District, Shanghai	Shanghai Putuo District Police Dept.	2001-03-24	Shanghai Putuo District People's Court	2001-11-28	09	2001-02-17	2010-02-16
Dai Liang	25	High School	Shanghai	Room 501, 24 Tonggang Third Village Gaoqiao Town of Pudong New District, Shanghai	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2001-02-16	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2001-10-23	05	2001-01-12	2006-01-11
Du Ting	36	College	Zhenyuan County, Gansu Province	86 Andingdong Road, North Street Xifeng City, Gansu Province	Shanghai Minhang District Police Dept.	2001-08-17	Shanghai Minhang District People's Court	2002-03-18	08	2001-05-04	2009-05-03
Geng Zhaojun	30	College	Xifeng County, Liaoning Province	Room 307, 68 Longshanxin Village Xuhui District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2000-08-01	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2001-03-15	04	2000-06-29	2004-06-28
Guo Xiaojun	34	Junior College	Boai County, Henan Province	Room 605, No. 1 of Lane 880, Cangyuan Road Minhang District, Shanghai	Shanghai Police Dept.	2000-09-22	Shanghai First Intermediate Court	2001-03-02	05	2000-08-17	2005-08-16
He Binggang	27	Master's degree	Shanghai	Room 33, 74 East Aner Village Xuhui District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2000-11-22	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2001-09-29	06	2000-10-18	2006-10-17
Hu Zhiming	30	Master's degree	Shenyang City, Liaoning Province	Room 195, Unit 2, Building 36, Yujia Road Dandong City, Liaoning Province	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2000-11-08	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2001-09-14	04	2000-10-04	2004-10-03
Huang Huijun	41	High School	Shanghai	4073, Group 2, Xinjiang Village Shangyang Town, Jinshan District, Shanghai	Shanghai Jinshan District Police Dept.	2000-09-08	Shanghai Jinshan District People's Court	2001-03-27	05	2000-08-02	2005-08-01 (Detained once)
Huang Zhibao	59	Special Secondary School	Siyang County, Jiangsu Province	Room 204, No. 15 of Lane 180, Xinbin Road Yangpu District, Shanghai	Shanghai Yangpu District Police Dept.	2001-07-05	Shanghai Yangpu District People's Court	2002-02-20	07	2001-06-04	2008-06-03
Zhang Yiming	45	Junior College	Shanghai		Shanghai Putuo District Police Dept.	2000-07-14	Shanghai Putuo District People's Court	2001-02-19	05	2000-06-08	2005-06-05
Jiang Yong	35	Junior College	Linan County, Zhejiang Province	24, Lane 163, Changshu Road Jingan District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2001-02-13	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2001-11-02	08	2001-01-06	2009-01-05
Jiang Bin	27	Master's degree	Guiyang City, Guizhou Province	Fudan University Dormitory 220 Handan Road Yangpu District, Shanghai	Shanghai Yangpu District Police Dept.	2001-01-11	Shanghai Yangpu District People's Court	2001-12-21	03	2001-01-11	2003-12-08
Yao Weihua	65	College	Chengdu City, Sichuan Province		Shanghai Baoshan District Police Dept.	2001-07-18	Shanghai Baoshan District People's Court	2002-07-01	04-06	2001-07-18	2006-01-17
Jiang Yexiang	27	College		Company dormitory 100 Zhuhang Road Xuhui District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2000-12-29	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2002-03-04	04-06	2000-11-26	2005-05-25
Lan Bing	35	Special Secondary School	Hubei Province	Room 501, No. 58 of Lane 151, Guilinxi Street Xuhui District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2001-10-08	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2002-07-18	10	2001-08-29	2011-08-28
Li Liang	30	College	Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province	Room 101, 23 Tianlinshi Village Xuhui District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2002-02-10	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2002-10-11	07	2002-01-11	2009-01-10
Li Yan	23	High School	Liaoning Province	047, Group 8, Xishi Alley Goubangzi Town, Beining City, Liaoning Province	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2001-12-05	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2002-07-19	07-06	2001-10-27	2009-04-26
Liang Weilin	34	High School	Shanghai	Room 201, No. 3 of Lane 46, Baotong Road Zhabei District, Shanghai	Shanghai Zhabei District Police Dept.	2001-02-19	Shanghai Zhabei District People's Court	2001-09-24	07-06	2001-01-14	2008-07-13
Lin Sen	25	High School	Shanghai	Room 16, No. 1 of Lane 1220, Beijingxi Road Jingan District, Shanghai	Shanghai Jingan District Police Dept.	2001-10-30	Shanghai Jingan District People's Court	2002-06-24	04	2001-09-29	2005-08-31
Liu Jinfang	55	Special Secondary School	Shanghai	Room 1109, 267 Hongzhenlao Street Hongkou District, Shanghai	Shanghai Hongkou District Police Dept.	2001-02-22	Shanghai Hongkou District People's Court	2001-09-28	05	2001-01-23	2006-01-22
Liu Xueyan	29	Master's degree	Huayin County, Shaanxi Province	Fudan University Collective Household 220 Handan Road Yangpu District, Shanghai	Shanghai Yangpu District Police Dept.	2000-11-17	Shanghai Yangpu District People's Court	2001-11-20	03	2000-12-28	2003-12-27
Mei Jianqi	26	College	Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province	1954 Huashan Road Changning District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2000-12-15	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2001-11-28	05	2000-11-06	2005-11-05
Ren Zejun	30	College	Hejin County, Shanxi Province	Tianjin City University Dormitory	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2002-01-25	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2002-09-02	05	2001-12-24	2006-12-23
Shen Huihua	34	Junior High School		1969, Group 26, Jialu Village Dongyuan Town, Qidong County, Jiangsu Province	Shanghai Jingan District Police Dept.	2001-10-30	Shanghai Jingan District People's Court	2002-06-24	09	2001-09-04	2010-09-03
Shen Jie	26	College	Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province	Room 101, Unit 3, Building 12, Zhaohui Nine Division, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province	Shanghai Police Dept.	2002-07-19	Shanghai Second Intermediate Court	2003-01-16	06	2002-06-14	2008-06-13
Sun Xiaofeng	28	High School	Shanghai	No. 103 of Lane 1906, Sichuanbei Road Hongkou District, Shanghai	Shanghai Hongkou District Police Dept.	2003-01-03	Shanghai Hongkou District People's Court	2003-06-18	04	2002-12-04	2006-12-03
Tao Xiangwei	52	Junior College	Shanghai	No. 15 of Lane 118, Jiucang Street Huangpu District, Shanghai	Shanghai Baoshan District Police Dept.	2001-01-11	Shanghai Baoshan District People's Court	2001-11-19	04-06	2000-12-06	2005-06-05
Yang Yuhui	34	Junior College	Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province		Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2000-12-15	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2001-09-29	03	2000-11-12	2003-11-11
Wang Jianping	46	Junior High School	Shanghai	Room 301, No. 4 of Lane 25, Qingnian Road Minhang District, Shanghai	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2000-12-14	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2001-09-10	08	2000-11-08	2008-11-07
Wang Wenyi	34	High School		78, Group 3, Alley 15, Qianjin District, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province	Shanghai Huangpu District Police Dept.	2002-07-01	Shanghai Huangpu District People's Court	2003-03-12	04-06	2002-05-24	2006-11-23
Wang Xudong	34	Master's degree	Shanghai	Talented Person Exchange Service Center Changning District, Shanghai	Shanghai Songjiang District Police Dept.	2000-12-07	Shanghai Songjiang District People's Court	2001-05-22	04-06	2000-11-06	2005-05-05
Wu Gang	37	Junior College	Shanghai	Room 201, 23 Gongfu Third Village Baoshan District, Shanghai	Shanghai Baoshan District Police Dept.	2002-09-16	Shanghai Baoshan District People's Court	2003-04-01	03	2002-08-19	2005-08-18
Wu Wenming	35	College		Room 401, 314 Shihua Third Village Jinshan District, Shanghai	Shanghai Jinshan District Police Dept.	2002-03-25	Shanghai Songjiang District People's Court	2002-11-25	06	2002-02-22	2008-02-21
Xi Xiaocheng	47	Junior High School	Shanghai	3 Xijiazhai, Yaohua Road Pudong New District, Shanghai	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2002-10-21	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2003-06-13	05	2002-09-16	2007-09-15
Yan Bin	28	College		16 Liaowang Street Baidishi Town, Qidong County, Hunan Province	Shanghai Huangpu District Police Dept.	2002-07-01	Shanghai Huangpu District People's Court	2003-03-12	07	2002-05-24	2009-05-23
Tang Renya	50	Junior High School	Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province		Shanghai Baoshan District Police Dept.	2000-11-24	Shanghai Baoshan District People's Court	2001-04-26	03	2000-10-18	2003-10-17
Yang Jiuqing	53	Junior College	Shanghai	8 Caijiazhai, Guangmang Village Yangyuan Town, Pudong New District, Shanghai	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2000-08-15	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2000-12-08	04	2000-07-08	2004-07-07
Yang Weifeng	35	High School	Shanghai	254 Danshui Road Luwan District, Shanghai	Shanghai Luwan District Police Dept.	2001-01-23	Shanghai Luwan District People's Court	2001-08-30	04	2000-12-27	2004-12-26
Ye Xiaoping	36	Junior High School	Wuhan, Hubei Province	Room 302, 5 Baogang Nine Village Baoshan District, Shanghai	Shanghai Baoshan District Police Dept.	2001-07-18	Shanghai Baoshan District People's Court	2002-07-01	05-06	2001-07-18	2007-01-17
Yu Lei	40	High School		Room 503, No. 32 of Lane 990, Zhongyuan Road Yangpu District, Shanghai	Shanghai Yangpu District Police Dept.	2002-09-20	Shanghai Yangpu District People's Court	2003-05-23	05	2002-08-19	2007-08-18
Zhang Lu	28	College		Unit 1408, No. 18 of Lane 60, Lancun Road Pudong New District, Shanghai	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2000-11-03	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2001-09-17	04	2000-10-02	2004-10-01
Zhang Nanping	32	Junior High School	Jiangxi Province	Zhangjia Group, Zengjia Village, Zhanxu Town Dongxiang County, Jiangxi Province	Shanghai Pudong New District Police Dept.	2002-05-23	Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court	2002-12-24	05	2002-03-19	2007-03-18
Zhang Qin	48	College	Nantong, Jiangsu Province	Room 403, 23 Changshun Road Changning District, Shanghai	Shanghai Xuhui District Police Dept.	2001-02-09	Shanghai Xuhui District People's Court	2001-09-29	04	2000-12-31	2004-12-30
Zhang Zhanjie	36	Master's degree	Juancheng County, Shandong Province	Xinyuan Village, Fengxian Branch Campus of Shanghai Normal University Fengxian County, Shanghai	Shanghai Fengxian County Police Dept.	2000-09-20	Shanghai Fengxian County People's Court	2001-07-02	04-06	2000-08-17	2005-02-16
Zheng Kang	33	College	Shanghai	Room 504, No. 37 of Lane 251, Guannong Road Putuo District, Shanghai	Shanghai Putuo District Police Dept.	2002-11-02	Shanghai Putuo District People's Court	2003-06-24	05-06	2002-09-29	2008-03-28
Zhou Bin	35	High School	Shanghai	Room 405, No. 6 of Lane 1715, Tianshan Road Changning District, Shanghai	Shanghai Changning District Police Dept.	2001-03-20	Shanghai Changning District People's Court	2001-09-06	12	2001-01-18	2013-01-17

In addition, incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners also include:
Cai Jun (Unit 102, Building One, Zhoulianxin Village, Shangnan Road, Shanghai)
Liu Shunming (Unit 301, Building 4, Maqiaoxin Village, Minhang District, Shanghai)
Guo Shihao (Unit 501, 6 Fuyan Road, Mazhenyiqiao, Minhang District, Shanghai)
Zheng Jian (Unit 103, Building 169, Sitang No.1 Village, Baoshan District, Shanghai)
Xie Heng (Unit 101, No. 67 of Lane 600, HuaJiangzhi Road, Jiading District, Shanghai)
Zhang Xichuan (on a hunger strike for 288 days)
Yu Zujun, 39402
Jiang Bin, 39259
He Honghai, 30091
Pan Haoliang, 30156
List of practitioners who were transferred to other wards from Ward 5
Ye Xiaoping (to Ward 4)
Chou Shen (to Ward 1)
Chen Mingliang (to Ward 9 )
Zhang Yimin (to Ward 6 )

Director: Qiao Liguo
Deputy Director: Wang Dongsheng
Head of brigade: Ou Ligang
Team leader: Fei Chunlei
Deputy team leader: Li Jingmin
Political head: Zhang Jian
Group leaders: Guo Hai, Ni Wenbin, Dai Wenlong, Lu Bin
List of Guards in Ward 5:
Head of Ward 5: Ou Ligang
Deputy head of Ward 5: Xue Chun
Political head: Fu Kehu (plotted and implemented the "transformation" of Yang Yuhui by means of beating )
Head of branch in "Youth Experimental Ward": Shen Yanrong (planned and implemented corporal punishment of new detainees)
Political head: Zhang Jian
Group leaders: Ni Yongbin, Dai Wenlong, Lu Bin, Xu Guang
Head of Sub-ward 1: Ni Ling
Newly appointed supervisors in Ward 5:
Team leader: Fei Chunlei
Group leader: Guo Hai

Practitioner Huang Yonghui Tells of His Ordeal in Chishan Jail, Hunan Province

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Huang Yonghui is 45 years old. On December 5, 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested and locked up for four days. He was later detained for 15 days. He held a hunger strike to protect his Dafa books and was released after three days. After he was released from jail, he was fired from his job for not giving up Dafa. His telephone was monitored and his personal identification card was confiscated. Huang Yonghui was arrested again in November 2000. In December 2001, he was illegally sentenced to a three-year jail term. He was detained in Chishan Jail in Hunan Province. The following is the story of his ordeal in Chishan Jail, in his own words.

I was arrested and sent to Changsha No. 3 Jail for being a Falun Gong practitioner. In the middle of December 2001, I was transferred to Chishan Jail in Yuanjaing (Hunan Province No. 1 Jail). My physical body had been healthy before this.

On September 4, 2002, guard Yang Yong at Chishan Jail did not allow Dafa disciples Xiao Huisheng and I to study the Fa. Guard He Yong wanted to set Master's articles on fire. I warned He Yong not to burn the articles, as retribution would surely follow for such an act. He Yong said that I was cursing him so he starting beating me. I said my intention was good, and it was for his good that I asked him not to burn the articles, and I was not wrong. He Yong continued fiercely beating me. He slapped my left and right cheeks with both hands several dozen times, and he punched my chest with his fists. He kicked my shins with his leather boots, and kicked my body with full force. My face was swollen, my chest, back, and legs were injured, and my nerves were hurt. Many people saw the beating, including inmate Chen Gong of Ward 5 (now transferred to Ward 7), Yang Yuanyou (now transferred to Ward 7), Zhao Aiping (now transferred to Ward 7), Zhao Zhishuang, Li Jun, Xiao Huisheng, Zhao Moxiang, and Daitu (nickname). Those who knew of this incident include Chen Zhaohui, Chen Hui, Tang Guoping, political head Duan Po, and several other people.

In mid-March 2003, I was hospitalized in the jail due to the tortures. My body was swollen, painful and numb. I could not move my left hand, and both of my legs could not be straightened. My condition has not improved as of today. During the hospitalization, I lay in bed for days. I could not move or change body position, eat, drink, or use the toilet by myself. From August 2003 to April 29, 2004, the day I was released, I had been illegally detained in the jail's hospital within the disabled and senior group, accompanied by inmates.

Since my release from jail, I am unable to walk smoothly. I am classified as having third degree limb disability by the City Disability Association. I am unable to find a job and get only 100 yuan each month, on which it is difficult to survive. My condition was caused by Chishan Jail's persecution, and I asked Chishan Jail to compensate me 150,000 yuan for the damage to my body. However, Chishan Jail refused to acknowledge this undeniable fact. On October 24, 2004, I requested Hunan Province Jail Administration Bureau to look into the case, but with no results so far.

Room 101, Unit 2, Building 20, Donggua Shan No. 1 Village, Tianxin District, Changsha City, Hunan Province

More Information about the Persecution of Practitioner Ms. Ding Yan in the Taihang Prison, Baoding City Prior to Her Torture Death

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ding Yan (tortured to death on the night of August 18, 2001 in Chengde Prison) was transferred from the Chengde Prison to the Taihang Prison in Mancheng County, Baoding City, Hebei Province in the summer of 2000. Because she believed that she was innocent, she refused to do the forced labor, nor would she take orders from the prison police. As a result, she was subjected to ruthless persecution.

In the beginning, they locked Ms. Ding up in an isolated cell with four criminal prisoners. One day, the four inmates forcibly took her downstairs to answer roll call. In front of several hundred prisoners, Ms. Ding clarified the truth about Falun Gong. She told them that Falun Gong and the practitioners were unjustly accused.

In the following three months, police officers and eight prisoners took turns tormenting her. Each morning at about 6 o'clock, four prisoners pulled her hair, grabbed her hands and dragged downstairs with her head facing downward. Her body fell heavily on each staircase landing. Her clothes and shoes were torn and she had bruises all over her body. They dragged her into a group of prisoners and then, with policemen giving orders from the sidelines, several of them violently beat her.

Next, Ms. Ding was forced to stand still in a freezing cold courtyard. There were four prisoners surrounding her: one in front, one behind and two by her sides. Even shifting her weight from one foot to another would invite a savage beating. She was forced to stand still for over 10 hours. It was the dead of winter. Even with a mere half an hour shift, the prisoners could hardly bear the cold. Ms. Ding's legs and feet were severely swollen and she couldn't put on shoes. Most of her hair had been pulled out. Her back and legs were injured and she was not able to walk straight. She was often subjected to violent group beatings at the hands of prisoners.

The entire winter was like that for Ms. Ding. One day, after a round of savage beatings and electric shocks at the hands of policemen and several prisoners, no one ever saw Ms. Ding again. One prisoner who knew the circumstances said, "They lost control while beating her that time."

Meanwhile, another practitioner also suffered the same persecution resulting in severe injuries of the lower back, kidney area, legs and feet. In the end, no one knew that practitioner's whereabouts, either.

Name: Shi Wenbo
Date of Birth: May 1, 1981
Jurisdiction: Xindihao Police Station in the Changyi District of Jilin City, Jilin Province
Jurisdiction: Changchun Road Police Station in Chuanying District, Jilin City

Shi Wenbo presently lives at the home of Ms. Shen Shuhua's second younger brother. He is unemployed.

Ms. Shen Shuhua, 47, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jilin City, Jilin Province. She lived in the Changyi District of Jilin City. In September 1999, she was detained by the Xindihao Police Station in the Changyi District for adhering to the principles of Falun Dafa. Ms. Shen suffered a mental collapse during her detention as a result of loss of freedom and contact with the outside world. The authorities did not spare her. On June 25, 2000, she was forced to clean the window glass of the neighborhood administration office building and forgot to bring back the water bucket. She went back to get the bucket, fell off the building and died. The exact cause of her fall is unknown.

Organizations responsible for the persecution which resulted in Ms. Shen Shuhua's death:
Country code: 86, area code: 432
Xindihao Police Station in the Changyi District of Jilin City: 2585516
Office of the Party Secretary of the Xindihao Neighborhood Administration: 2454581
Office of the Deputy Party Secretary of the neighborhood administration office: 2454881, 2456120, and 2456129
Xindihao Neighborhood Administration: 2493316
Address of Changyi District Police Department: East Section of Jiefangda Road, Jilin City, Postal Code: 132041
Dispatch Office of Crime Response Unit: 2485162
Office of the police department: 2485940
State Security Unit: 2485537
Legal Section: 2485279
Command Center: 2459110
Office of chief of the police department: 2485301
Office of commissar of the police department: 2499302
Office of deputy chief of the police department: 2485303
Political Division: 2485943
Disciplinary Office: 2458306
Crime Response Unit: 2485378

1. [Changdejin City, Hunan Province] He Xuezhao Is Tormented and Near Suffocation in Changdejin City Prison

Mr. He Xuezhao, who is in his 30s, was a teacher at the Liyujiang Power Factory Children's School of Zixing, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. In mid-October 2002, he was arrested when clarifying truth about Falun Gong, and was given a seven-year prison sentence. He is currently detained at Changdejin City Prison in Hunan Province. It is heard that he has been brutally tortured, and has become feeble. He can no longer walk upright or talk clearly. The hospital diagnosed him with pulmonary tuberculosis, pleurisy, and saw a black shadow in his chest. After He Xuezhao's wife learned of the situation, she requested a medical release, but the prison refused to release him.

2. [Longnanli County, Gansu Province] Cao Qiang and Pu Jianping Receive Three-Year Sentences

On the night of October 28, 2004, Cao Qiang from Yanguan Town, Longnanli County, a teacher at Li County No. 2 High School and a painter, along with Pu Jianping, 26, distributed Falun Gong truth-clarification materials at Caoba Township. On their way home, policemen from the Yanguan Police Station arrested them and took them to the Li County Detention Center the following day.

On December 17, 2004, they were sentenced to three years of forced labor, and sent to Pingantai Forced Labor Camp in Lanzhou on the morning of January 10, 2005.

People responsible for the persecution:
Li County Police Station Manager Tian Xingjia
Police officer Zhao Zhuge (temporarily employed)
Li County Public Security Bureau Director Li Minping
Politics and Security Section Chief Su Zizhen
Detention Center Manager Tian Hai

On August 10, 2004, Hei Huiyu was arrested at work by ten plain-clothed policemen from the Zhangchuan Public Security Bureau, Beidao Public Security Bureau, and Tianshui City Public Security Bureau, and taken to Zhangchuan Detention Center, where they are still detained.

During the detention, Hei Huiyu's family visited Zhangchuan Politics and Security Section and Ma Xiaowu of the National Protection Unit many times requesting his release. Ma intimidated and harassed them. On December 15, Zhangchuan Court held a trial, but because Hei Huiyu and Zhang Run resisted with their righteous believes, the trial was put on hold.

Mr. Jiang Yong is about 35 years old and a Falun Gong practitioner in Xuhui District, Shanghai. In January 2001, Jiang Yong was arrested while he clarified the truth of Falun Gong in the Xuhui District. Policeman Ding Guangming pulled off all his clothes during an icy-cold January day and poured large buckets of cold-water over his head. Ding also beat, kicked and tortured him with an electric baton. Ding made Jiang stand for a long time, and deprived him of sleep for more than ten days. After obtaining a confession through torture, Jiang Yong was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment by the Xuhui District Court. His prison term ends in 2009.

5. [Shandong Province] Several Falun Dafa Practitioners Arrested and Six Material Sites Destroyed

On January 16, 2005, Zhuang Xinli was arrested while picking up Falun Gong truth-clarification materials at Qingzhou Highway Service Area in Shandong Province. Following this arrest, police arrested Wang Guiyu, Li Guiling, Zhu Guifeng, Zhou Lijun, and others. Their homes were ransacked, and six Falun Gong truth-clarification material sites were destroyed. A computer, printer, model-sealing machine, and tape recorder were confiscated.

6. [Xuyong County, Sichuan Province] Chen Qihua Arrested for Telling Her Experience

On the morning of January 25, 2005, Ms. Chen Qihua, an over 60-year-old retired employee of Porcelain Clay Company in Xuyong County, Sichuan Province went shopping at the food market. She told people of her experience and the benefits she derived from practicing Falun Dafa. She was subsequently arrested and taken by a police car to Xuyong County Detention Center. This is the fourth time she was arrested.

Home phone number of Guo Dingyi, from the National Protection Unit of Xuyong County Public Security Bureau, Sichuan Province: 86-830-6225761

7. [Handan City, Hebei Province] Liu Ling On Hunger Strike for Nearly Two Weeks

Ms. Liu Ling, 22, is from Hanshan District, Handan City, Hebei Province. She has been on a hunger strike for two weeks at the Handan City No. 2 Detention Center, demanding her unconditional release. It is said that she has been force-fed by policemen in the detention center. Due to more than four months of detention and force-feeding, she is in a dire situation and her life is in danger. But still, the policemen threatened to sentence her.

The main work units and responsible people in the persecution:
610 Office chief Cao Zhixia: 86-310-7413519 (Office), 86-13803101111 (Cell),
86-310-3158028 (Home)
Handan City No. 2 Detention Center: Tel: 86-310-4157160, 86-310-4156952

8. [Acheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Six Falun Dafa Practitioners Still Detained

Acheng City No. 2 Detention Center is detaining six Falun Dafa practitioners. They are:

The aforementioned six practitioners were all sentenced. Prior to New Year's Day of 2005, they had three health-checks, which they failed every time. Therefore, they could not be sent away. Generally, if a person doesn't pass a health check, he should be released, but these practitioners are still being held. The police officers have been looking for a reason to send them to the forced labor camp.

Responsible units' telephone numbers:
Acheng City 610 Office assistant chief: Wu Da 86-451-53720170
No. 2 Detention Center:
Manager Ma Huaiqiu: 86-451-53714265, 86-451-53846829, 86-13945119872 (Cell)
Vice- Manager Li Xiaoguang: 86-451-53714265, 86-451-53720608, 86-13704841511 (Cell)
Manager Zhou Xiaozhang: 86-451-53714265, 86-451-53749178, 86-13945161665 (Cell)

9. [Chongqing City] Du Rencheng Arrested for Announcing "Falun Dafa is Great"

On January 29, 2005, Du Rencheng from Shuijiang Town, Nanchuan, Chongqing City announced "Falun Dafa is great" and other Falun Gong information using a trumpet. Policemen from Nanchuan Public Security Bureau arrested Du Rencheng. He has not been released.

Relevant telephone number:
Nanchuan Public Security Bureau director, Zhang Xiaohua: 86-23-71905736 (Home)

10. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Zhang Guibiao and Two Other Falun Gong Practitioners Are Put on Trial

Zhang Guibiao, Changchun Technical University teacher Ms. Zhang Yufen, and Ms. Liu Jinli have been arrested and held in detention for eight months. At 8:30 a.m. on February 3, 2005, they were put on trial at Chaoyang District Court. They displayed their righteous faith and announced: "We request unconditional release! We are not guilty!" The court then hastily terminated proceedings after about thirty minutes.

11. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Wang Zhongcheng and Wife Liu Ailing Are Detained

At around 8:00 a.m. on January 28, 2005, Mr. Wang Zhongcheng and his wife Ms. Liu Ailing from Guangzhou were arrested at home. Their computer, printer, Falun Gong books and literature, truth-clarification materials, mobile phone, and address book were confiscated. They are being held at Fang Village Detention Center.

12. [Langfang, Hebei Province] Lu Caixia Is Secretly Taken to a Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Lu Caixia from Langfang, Hebei Province was taken to a brainwashing center in mid-December 2004. She refused to be "transformed," and went on a hunger strike. Around the end of January (exact date is not available), she was sent to a forced labor camp. Her family was not notified, and her family members still do not know where she is being held nor the exact time she was taken to the labor camp.

13. [Nanchong, Sichuan Province] Du Bihua and He Suzhen Arrested for Posting Truth-Clarification Materials

On the night of February 3, 2005, Ms. Du Bihua and Ms. He Suzhen posted Falun Gong truth-clarification materials at the municipal government newly developed area. They were arrested, and detained at Jialing District Detention Center.

14. [Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province] Recent Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners

At the end of January 2005, several Falun Dafa practitioners of Nanchang City were arrested as they were hanging Falun Gong banners at 81st bridge in Nanchang.

Ms. Ge is in her 40s, and is a former employee of Jianglian Corporation in Qingyunpu District. After she was arrested about six months ago, she was tortured. She bled profusely and suffered mental trauma. She died at the end of January 2005.

Ms. Yu Cuihua from Jiangling Corporation in Qingyunpu District is in her 50s. While she was distributing Falun Gong truth-clarification materials at her hometown in 2004, she was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison. We believe that she is detained at Jiangxi Province Women Prison. Details are not available.

15. [Nanyang Zhenping County, Henan Province] Song Guangping Arrested for Clarifying the Truth

On January 26, 2005, Song Guangping from Zhenping County, Henan Province clarified the truth of Falun Gong to people at Duye Temple. Erlong Village Police Station in Zhenping County notified the Politic and Protection Section of Zhenping County Public Security Bureau. Policemen Li Jin and Dou Dengyun from the Politic and Protection Section arrested Song Guangping, and detained him at Zhenping County Detention Center. Song Guangping has a child under 16 years old who is still in school. This young child is without a guardian.

16. [Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province] Dai Jiawen Arrested and Zhan Xingmao Is Hunted Down

It is believed that Jiangdu City Public Security Bureau has arrested Dai Jiawen from Zhenwu Town, Jiangdu City (belongs to Yangzhou City). Zhan Xingmao from Binhu Town, Jiangdu City escaped from Jiangdu City Brain Branch Hospital, and is being hunted down by the 610 Office.

Dai Jiawen had been detained for more than three years, without legal process, at Jiangdu City Detention Center, Yangzhou City Wutaishan Hospital (Mental Hospital), and Jiangdu City Brain Branch Hospital (a mental hospital). Dai Jiawen renounced the practice in 2004, and began to practice again after returning home.

Zhan Xingmao has been to Beijing to appeal many times, and detained and sent to a forced labor camp. He was in the forced labor camp for two years, including one additional year. The 610 Office did not allow him to keep his freedom after his release from the forced labor camp, but kept him detained at Wutaishan Hospital (a mental hospital), and Jiangdu City Brain Branch Hospital (a mental hospital) for more than three years. He was given neurosis medication and suffered electrotherapy.

Some of responsible people in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in Yangzhou:
Yangzhou City 610 Office:
Xu Yiming, Ji Rengui, Li Zhibin, Xia Xinping, Wang Linggen, Wang Guohua, Liu Jian, Lu Zhengding, Hu Changqing, Gao Fenqiang, Yuan Zhensheng, Jiao Jin, Jiang Xueping

1. [Kaifeng City, Henan Province] Mr. Wang Kaibo and Ms. Wang Xiaohua Are Sentenced to Prison Terms. They Are Appealing the Decision

In June and July of 2004, the State Security Department of Kaifeng City, Henan Province arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Wang Kaibo and Ms. Wang Xiaohua. At the beginning of February 2005, the Suburban Court of Kaifeng City sentenced Mr. Wang to seven years in prison. The Longting District Court of Kaifeng City sentenced Ms. Wang to five years in prison. They have both filed appeals.

2. [Heilongjiang Province] Mr. Yang Huibin Is Arrested and Sentenced to Prison Because He Played a Truth Clarification Video for Students

Mr. Yang Huibin, 29, was a Physics teacher at the Nongken No. 2 High School in Beian City, Heilongjiang Province. At the end of September 2003, in order to let more innocent students know the true facts about Falun Gong and thus save them, he played the truth clarification video "Tiananmen Staged self-immolation." Later, the Nongken Police Department of Beian City arrested him. After being imprisoned for 3 months, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison at the Beian City's Xinsheng Prison. He suffered enormously there. He succumbed to the torture and brainwashing and was "transformed". Then his prison term was reduced by 2 years. Currently he is still in prison.

At 9 o'clock in the morning on February 16, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Bai Junjie was put on trial at the Qiaodong Court of Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. From the time Mr. Bai was arrested, it took the authorities less than 20 days to put him on trial. They completely ignored the legal procedure. This is a persecution against human rights.

4. [Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Proince] Ms. Song Shirong of Ganyu County Is Imprisoned

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Song Shirong of Ganyu County, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, was putting Falun Gong truth clarification materials into the pockets of clothes that would be sold to customers at the "Ganyu County Farmer Industrial Commercial Supermarket." The security guard discovered this and did not understand the purpose, so he reported her. Presently she is imprisoned in a detention center.

Related telephone numbers:
Li Qiming, Associate Director of the Ganyu County Police Sub-Department, 86-518-6223549 (Home)
Li Jiale, core member of the local 610 Office, 86-518-6283040 (Home)
Wu, Director of the Lianyungang City 610 Office, 86-518-5298335 (Office)
Qian Guangyu, 86-518-2392646
Ma Mingbiao, Chief of the Security Section, 86-518-5292089 (Office), 86-518- 5293351 (Home)

5. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Ms. Chen Jie Is Imprisoned in Lanzhou City Detention Center

On December 8, 2003, the State Security Department of Lanzhou City detained Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Jie because she was making truth clarification materials. Later, she was imprisoned in the Detention Center of the State Security Department of Lanzhou City. This detention center is a place of extreme violence. This is where the police tortured Mr. Yuan Jiang, a 29 years old graduate of Tsinghua University, to death.

1. Elementary school teachers in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province are persecuted for their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance"

Mr. Li Yatian, a teacher of Chinese at Xiangzhou Second Elementary School in Zhuhai City, has been arrested and jailed several times for practicing Falun Gong. He has been jailed in Shanhailou Building in Zhuhai, the Education Building, the reception center of Bureau of Water Resources, the reception center of the Bureau of Forestry, and other places. He was unlawfully detained three times, from December 16-30, 1999, February 15-29, 2000, and May 8-23, 2000. On November 18, 2000, Li Yatian was arrested by policemen, and was unlawfully sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp for distributing and mailing flyers.

Yan Hongzhuan, a Physical Education teacher at Xiangzhou First Elementary School in Zhuhai, was forced to quit in October 2000 because of her belief in Falun Gong. From April 2001 to April 2002, she was unlawfully jailed and tortured at the Provincial Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sanshui, Guangdong Province. She was unlawfully arrested again and has been detained in the Provincial Women's Forced Labor Camp since the end of 2004. http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/2/25/96136.html

2. The persecution of Liu Jianguo's family in Baoqing County, Heilongjiang Province

On April 12, 2002, for distributing truth-clarifying materials, Liu Jianguo's wife, Wang Aifang, and his second daughter, Liu Guihua, were arrested. The arrest was conducted by policemen led by Chen Xiangjun, from the police station of the 8511 Farm and Xiao Zhizhong, from the 610 Office of the 8511 Farm. The mother and daughter were jailed at the police station of the 8511 Farm. They were transferred to Nongken Detention Center, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province on April 13. For the same reason, on April 21, Liu Jianguo's son, Liu Qiliang, and Liu Qiliang's wife, Zhang Xiuying, were abducted from their home by policemen. In December 2002, Liu Guihua, Liu Qiliang, Wang Aifang, and Zhang Xiuying were sentenced to jail by Ren Yingwu, the judge of Nongken Intermediate Court, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, for 3 to 4 years each. Liu Qiliang was sent to the 14^th Division of Mudanjiang Prison in Heilongjiang Province, and forced to work in a toxic environment for a long time. He was severely injured both physically and mentally. His eyes were filled with blood, his ears were damaged and much of his hearing was lost, his legs have become paralyzed, and his spine was also injured. Liu Guihua, Zhang Xiuying, and Wang Aifang were jailed in the Women's Prison in Heilongjiang Province. Liu Qiliang and Zhang Xiuying are now detained in the 5^th Division, and Wang Aifang is jailed in the 8^th Division. Liu Qiliang has partial hearing loss due to beatings.

3. Tiexi District Court in Shenyang City unlawfully sentences 65-year-old man to 4 years in jail for clarifying the truth

Shi Shengying, 65, was unlawfully arrested by Tiexi District police on the night of November 30, 2004, because he was clarifying the truth of Falun Gong in Xinghua Park, Tiexi District, Shenyang City. He is currently jailed in Shenyang City Detention Center. He was tried by Tiexi District Court on January 31, 2005. Because of the condemnation from his family and the audience, the court secretly sentenced him to 4 years in jail without any written documents.

Shi Shengying went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 1999, and was unlawfully detained in the Ziqiang Women's School, Shenyang City, and Longshan Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City. In 2000, he was unlawfully detained twice for going to the 610 Office and Tiexi District Police Station to clarify the truth of Falun Gong. Since January 2001, he had been jailed in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for two years, and his sentence was extended twice because he refused to renounce his belief. In the labor camp, he suffered all kinds of torture. He was forced to stand for long time, he was locked on an iron frame, and he was tied on the tiger bench. His mouth was gagged with dirty cloth and tape, and policemen grabbed him by the hair and banged his head against the wall. He was beaten with an electric baton and jailed in a solitary compartment. Due to harsh conditions at the labor camp, he developed scabies and his skin bled and discharged pus. When the policemen banged his head against the wall, he suffered a concussion and vomited. He developed serious heart disease, so the labor camp released him to avoid bearing the responsibility if he were to die. On August 25, 2003, Shi Shengying was abducted from home and taken to the brainwashing class in Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp, Shenyang City, by authorities from Yunfeng Street Committee and Yunfeng Police Station in Tiexi District.

4. The situation of practitioners persecuted in Wangcun Forced Labor Camp, Shandong Province

There are five steadfast practitioners in the Second Women's Labor Camp in Wangcun, Zibo City, Shandong Province.

Cui Huiting, 40 is from Qingdao. Her hair turned gray and her body became emaciated due to the torture. She was forced to wear thin clothes in the winter of 2001. She was beaten, kicked and insulted. Guards poured cold water down the neck of her shirt. She always faces the evil persecution calmly and speaks out from her heart.

Sun Aiqun, from Fushan County, Yantai City is very brave and dignified. Many people have benefited from her. She always points out the crimes of the guards and collaborators, making them speechless. The guards forced her to stay awake and stand for three months.

Dai Fulian, from Laiyang City, was tortured for so long that her feet became too swollen to walk. Guards sent her to the third male labor camp and forced her husband to try to "transform" her, but she refused to renounce her belief.

Jiang Cuie, 60, is from Rushan County, Weihai City. She was jailed and tortured in the solitary compartment. Her own sister was assigned to monitor and brainwash her. Her spine was injured so that her back had to bend to a 90-degree angle due to starvation, long-term forced-standing, and sleep deprivation. Her sister, under the evil control, viciously beat her. She was released and her body recovered after she returned home.

Xue Yuchun, 40, is from Huangdao. Her hair turned gray and her body became emaciated due to the torture she suffered. Her toenails turned gray and bent upwards due to the long-term forced-standing. Policemen had asked the most capable collaborator to pressure her, beat her, and malign Dafa in front of her, but she remained calm, and faced the evil persecution with her righteous thoughts and wisdom.

Zhang Luchan, 32, is a Dafa disciple from Qilihe District, Lanzhou City. He has been unlawfully jailed in the 5^th Group of the First Detention Center in Lanzhou. Zhang Luchan and his wife went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in November 1999, and were sent back to Lanzhou by the local government's liaison office in Beijing. They were unlawfully jailed in Yanjiaping Detention Center for fifteen days. He was sentenced to 18 months in a forced labor camp in July 2000 for posting some truth-clarifying photos. He was sent to Pingantai Forced Labor Camp in Lanzhou. In the labor camp, he was jailed in a solitary compartment and hung up for 20 days. His hands were so badly injured from the torture that the scar is still visible. He was released in January 2002, but police continued to go to his house to harass him. He was eventually forced to leave home to avoid the persecution. In January 2004, Xi Mingjie, a policeman from Qilihe Police Station, followed his wife and found Zhang Luchan on Caochang Street. He was unlawfully arrested and sent to Hualinshan Second Detention Center of Lanzhou, and transferred to a brainwashing class a month later. He was sent to Xiguoyuan Detention Center of Lanzhou six months later. According to reliable sources, the Qilihe District Court will hold a trial for him in February or March 2005.

Mr. Wang Zhehao, 27, was a computer-aided designer at the Dalian Chemical Research & Design Institute in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Wang had been repeatedly arrested and illegally detained for extended periods ever since the persecution against Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999. Both his body and mind were seriously damaged. Mr. Wang died as a result of persecution on December 25, 2004.

Wang Zhehao began to cultivate Falun Dafa in 1995 and followed the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." He worked diligently and was praised by leaders and colleagues at his work place. While Jiang Zemin's corrupt regime persecuted Falun Gong over the past five years, Mr. Wang was illegally arrested six times.

Mr. Wang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. The police sent him back to Dalian and illegally detained him in the Yaojia Detention Center for ten days. In August 1999, the police arrested him again and detained him for nearly 20 days during Jiang's visit to Dalian to inspect the state of persecution against Falun Gong.

With local officials continually harassing him, Mr. Wang was forced to quit his job and move. In early October 1999, the police from Dalian May First Square went to his home to harass him. They claimed that they didn't find the person they wanted to arrest, so they arrested Mr. Wang and his mother and detained them for 15 days; then they sent Mr. Wang to a rehabilitation center to further persecute him. After one month, they sent him to Dalian Labor Reeducation Camp for a one-year term of forced labor. Mr. Wang's family managed to get him out of the labor camp through some social connections. The police demanded 10,000 yuan as a deposit but never returned the money.

On April 24, 2001, several policemen, including Chen Xin from the first session of Dalian Police Department, suddenly broke into Mr. Wang's residence. They handcuffed him without any explanation and searched his home. Mr. Wang asked to see a search warrant. In response, the police slapped his face several times and claimed that was the search warrant.

Mr. Wang was sentenced to three years imprisonment in a forced labor camp. He was first imprisoned in Dalian Labor Reeducation Camp, then in Guanshan Labor Reeducation Camp, then in Benxi Labor Reeducation Camp, and lastly in Huludao Labor Reeducation Camp. He was subjected to brainwashing and physical abuse in the camps. His health was ruined. In Dalian Labor Reeducation Camp, he was put under close surveillance and tortured. The guards cuffed his hands and feet to a bed. At Benxi Labor Reeducation Camp, the guards beat him until his body was covered in blood. They locked him in a small solitary cell many times, restricted him from using the bathroom, and didn't give him any water to drink. Mr. Wang said, "Life in Guanshan Labor Reeducation Camp was very hard. First it was Mr. Zhu Xiaofei from Lushun City, (Liaoning Province). He didn't cooperate with the guards and refused to do the prison labor. The guards shocked him for a very long time with electric batons. Then it was Mr. Jiang Yunsong. He was locked in a small solitary cell. Several prisoners kicked him and beat him. When he came back, his face and his mouth were covered with bloody blisters from electric baton shocks. His hair was full of dirt. His leg was lame from being kicked."

In May 2003, Mr. Wang Zhehao went on a hunger strike to protest the unreasonable persecution in Huludao Labor Reeducation Camp. Guards Liu Guohua, Song Yuanbin, Qi Zhiping, Fan Yongjie, Wang Yongming, Wang Dazhu used six electric batons to shock his back and both sides of his chest until they were full of blisters. The guards didn't stop until they found that Mr. Wang's body temperature had increased to 38ºC (or 100.4ºF). Then they cuffed his hands to a bed, inserted a stomach tube and force-fed him with a lot of drugs and beer. On the third morning, Mr. Wang went into shock. After emergency treatment, the guards continued to force feed him through a tube inserted into his stomach. They took turns watching to make sure he didn't fall asleep.

On October 19, 2003, Mr. Wang wrote an article upholding the reputation of Falun Dafa in his required "Reflections Report." Guard Liu Guohua was displeased, and locked Wang Zhehao in a small solitary cell to torture him. Mr. Wang went on a hunger strike again. He was too weak to urinate. After more than 20 hours of suffering, he was sent to a hospital where a doctor tried for over an hour to insert a urinary catheter. In the 38 days following that, Mr. Wang suffered greatly in the hospital with a stomach tube and urinary catheter left in his body. When his family was notified, Mr. Wang was found to have a urinary tract infection, and symptoms of arrhythmia and tachycardia. He was in critical condition. The guards demanded 5,000 yuan deposit from his family before they agreed to release him.

After Mr. Wang returned home, he attempted to go back to work, but was still unable to urinate normally. In early December 2004, he suffered dropsy. His stomach was bloated, and he spit out dark red fluids. He was sometimes clear and sometimes in a daze, while his blood pressure, pulse, breathing, and some other indices seemed normal. The doctor could not determine the cause of the abdominal distention and no diagnosis could be made. Mr. Wang passed away on December 25, 2004.

Ms. Yang Xuezhu was a 78 year old resident of Hefei City, Anhui Province. In July 1999, she began to practice Falun Gong. After the persecution began in July of 1999, her grandson, who is also a practitioner, was arrested many times for validating Dafa. The elderly lady was deeply saddened because she missed her grandson so much. She was unable to overcome her grief and therefore became mentally disturbed. During wintertime, she walked barefoot on the concrete floor outside her home and wore only warm weather clothing. Soon her old illnesses returned.

On February 1, 2000, Ms. Yang's grandson was arrested again. The incident severely upset her and she died soon after.

Ms. Zhang Meilian from Jiangxi Province, Ms. Zhou Shuqing from Jilin Province and Ms. Zhou Qichun from Hebei Province Died from Persecution

Ms. Zhang Meilian, about 50 years old, was a retired teacher from Jiangxi Province Water and Electricity Engineering Staff College. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong after July 20, 1999, but was arrested and taken back to the local police station. She suffered a mental collapse due to the persecution and later died.

Ms. Zhou Shuqing, 66 years old, was a retired worker from Changchunling Town, Songyuan City, Jilin Province. She had several illnesses before she practiced Falun Gong. After beginning the practice, all her illnesses vanished and she enjoyed both physical and mental health.

Since July 20, 1999, the local police often searched her home, threatened, extorted money from her and harassed her, which made her unable to practice the exercises as usual. Her health deteriorated, returning to her past state. Even at that, the police still kept harassing her and extorting money from her. They claimed that they no longer had funding to arrest Falun Gong practitioners and forced her to give them money; otherwise they would detain her. Faced with such increased severe threats and tension, she could no longer endure it. Her illnesses recurred and she died on February 6, 2005.

Ms. Zhou Qichun, 75 years old, was a retired accountant from the Tanji Factory in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. She obtained Dafa in 1996. After that, the high blood pressure and heart disease she had suffered from for many years disappeared very quickly. After July 20^th, 1999, personnel from the local street administration office, the police station and neighborhood committee went to her home and forcibly took away her Dafa books and threatened her not to practice Falun Gong any more. This led to the rapid deterioration of her health and her past illnesses recurred. Later, during a time when she was having her illness treated in Hebei Province Chemistry Geology Research Institute, the authorities went to her home many times to harass and threaten her. She died on July 15, 2000 in great stress.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Dongxia from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province Tortured to Death

Ms. Wang Dongxia was a 41-year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. She had been detained three times after July 20, 1999, and twice sentenced to forced labor because she firmly cultivated Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance. Ms. Wang Dongxia was tortured in Jiamusi Labor Camp until she was severely ill and could not walk. She died on February 15, 2005.

On December 13, 2002, Jiamusi City 610 Office agent Chen Wanyou and police from Qianjin Station, and Nan'gang Substation stormed into Ms. Wang Dongxia's home. They abducted her, and took eight hundred yuan in cash and a cell phone from her husband's pocket. Police beat her up in the Qianjin Station, forced her to stand on the cement floor in bare feet, deprived her of sleep and made her sit with her hands cuffed behind her all night. After this they sent her to the detention center.

On January 6, 2003, police from Qianjin Station sent Ms. Wang Dongxia and several other Falun Gong practitioners to Jiamusi Labor Camp. Upon arriving there, all Falun Gong practitioners were cuffed to their beds and forced to go through brainwashing sessions. Those involved were Deputy Ward Leader Zhang Xiaodan (female), uniformed guards Liu Yadong (female) and Li Yongbo (female).

Ms. Wang Dongjia endured numerous tortures inside the labor camp, such as being forced to sit on a cable spindle(1) for a long time. This torture made her very weak. She was sick with tuberculosis and so thin it was as if there were only skin and bone left. The labor camp was afraid of being responsible for her death so they had her family pick her up in September 2004. When her family went to pick her up, she could not walk. They had to carry her back home.

Ms. Wang Dongxia never recovered after returning home. She often had a fever, and was finally sent to a hospital at a cost one thousand yuan per day. She died on February 15, 2005.

(1) To force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their practice, Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp used cable spindles as instruments of torture and called it "sitting on a little stool." See photo and more explanation of cable spindle at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/10/29/41751.html

Practitioner Ms. Xiao Yali Tortured to Death, Leaving behind Two Young Children

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xiao Yali used to live in Dongfa Village, Zhoujia Town, Shuangcheng City of Heilongjiang Province, China. On March 6, 2004, she died as a result of a violent forced-feeding while she was being detained at the Shuangcheng City No. 2 Detention Center. After being forcefully arrested, Ms. Xiao had to leave her twin children, a boy and a girl, behind. The boy is called Sun Ri and the girl is called Sun Yue. The young children cry for their mother every day. Currently, these two children are living with their grandparents. Ms. Xiao's husband, Sun Wancai, is in poor health and is suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. He already owes a debt of more than 10,000 yuan due to his medical treatments

Around 4 p.m. on February 28, 2004, government official Li Yuesheng from Zhoujia Town and police officer Guo Fujun from the local public security station, together with some other people, broke into Ms. Xiao's house and ransacked it. Between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., Zhoujia Town Judiciary Committee Secretary Gao Jinpeng, local public security station deputy director Bai, and town officials Li Yuesheng and Hu Zongshen and some other people broke into Ms. Xiao's house again, but this time they abducted Ms. Xiao from her home. Ms. Xiao was then sent to the public security station and later transferred to the Shuangcheng City No. 2 Detention Center. Around 6:40 p.m. on March 6, 2004, Ms. Xiao's family received a phone call from the detention center, asking the family to bring some money to the city emergency center where Ms. Xiao was being treated for an illness (Ms. Xiao had been very healthy; she didn't have any ailments at all before her detention)

Ten minutes later, the family received another call from the detention center, saying that the family could either go visit the emergency center that day or the next day (actually at that time, Ms. Xiao had already been tortured to death.) Over twenty family members and relatives visited the emergency center that same night; however, a certain officer refused to allow the family members see Ms. Xiao. The next day, the family and relatives learned that Ms. Xiao was already dead and they saw her body. There was an oval shaped scar on Ms. Xiao's forehead, the right side of Ms. Xiao's chest was swollen, both her hands were twisted and had turned purple, and her mouth was swollen as well. It was such a horrible and upsetting sight! When some public security staff requested that Ms. Xiao be cremated immediately (without receiving a memorial service), all the family members and relatives immediately protested strongly against such inhuman treatment. On March 13, 2004, Ms. Xiao was cremated against the family's will. Later on, it was learned from an inside source at the detention center that the primary culprit who was directly involved in Ms. Xiao's death was a physician called Wang Shiyuan from the No. 3 Clinical Center of Shuangcheng City People's Hospital.

After Ms. Xiao was tortured to death, the whole family was devastated. Not only did Ms. Xiao's family feel great sorrow, but her neighbors also mourned for her. They wept for having lost such a good person.

The Cruel Tortures Administered at the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp

The Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp, also known among the locals as the Jiangshuiquan Forced Labor Camp, is located at 20 Jiangshuiquan Road, Lixia District of Jinan City, Shandong Province. The conditions are extremely harsh there. One cannot see anything when entering the building without turning on the lights. In the summer it is stuffy and swamped with mosquitoes. In the winter, ice-cold air blows through the hallway, piercing into one's bones.

Since July 1999, female Falun Gong practitioners have been held at this facility. It has turned into a concentration camp serving Jiang's regime in its suppression of Falun Gong. In the beginning of October 2000, a large number of practitioners who went to Beijing to peacefully appeal were taken to this labor camp. The total number detained there was more than 800. A fifth division was established in addition to the original four divisions, headed by the most brutal officers in the labor camp. For the past five years, labor camp officials, led by Jiang Lihang, the labor camp director, directly instigated prostitutes, drug addicts, inmates of theft and robbery offenses, and collaborators to engage in physical and mental abuses against practitioners. Officials who actively engaged in persecution include Wang Shuzhen, Sun Yuhua, Zhao Jie (the three of them all served as the heads of Division No. 1), Xu Ruiju, head of Division No. 2, Yang Anrong, head of Division No. 4, and Niu Xuelian, head of Division No. 5.

The following photos are a visual presentation of some of the torture conducted at the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Labor Camp. These re-enactments are based on eyewitness accounts of the torture administered in the labor camp.

Officers at the No. 1 Women's Labor Camp and inmates ordered by these officers forcibly stretch a practitioner's arms and tie them to the top bunk bed. Then the practitioner's legs would be split apart and her feet tied to the legs of the bed (over 6 feet apart). A sheet was tied around the practitioner's waist, pulled to and fixed at another bed across the room. This was similar to an ancient form of execution vividly named "five horses splitting the corpse." Sometimes the officers would order someone to sit on the lower bunk and push the practitioner's lower back forward with their feet. Some practitioners were tied up and stretched out in this position for over a dozen hours.

Criminals would forcibly strip off a practitioner's clothes and press burning mosquito incense into the practitioner's back. When smoke came up, the perpetrator would move on to a new spot. Some practitioners had several dozen burn wounds. After three years, their scars are still there.

Officials at the labor camp would use reduction of labor camp terms as bait to drive inmates to monitor and torture Falun Gong students. These inmates had themselves been tortured and endured coercive interrogations, and were particularly keen in vicious beatings. They would slap the practitioner, kick her lower abdomen, strike her breasts, strike her head with their elbows, or step on the practitioners' bare feet while wearing heavy shoes to crush their toes. Sometimes eight or nine inmates took turns beating a practitioner throughout the night. Some whipped them with a bamboo strip, some struck them with shoes, and some pinched them with their fingernails or struck with their palm and fists. The heavier the beating, the more days would be reduced from the inmates' original forced labor terms.

The practitioner would be forced to squat on a few pieces of string on a folding stool with her arms stretched out. If she started to fall through the string, the inmates would strike her wrist bones with the frames of bamboo brooms. Each strike would cause a dark lump, which caused excruciating pain as if the bones had been crushed.

Officers at the labor camp would frequently use several electric batons to apply electric shocks to a practitioner for an extended period of time. Niu Xuelian, head of Division No. 5, and the husband of Officer Zhang, who is also a labor camp officer, are most notorious for their brutality. They would apply electric batons to a practitioner's palm, arch of the foot and the top of skull. Many practitioners had blisters on their forearms as a result of the electric shocks. Infections from the blisters would cause excruciating pain. An elderly practitioner continued to suffer from an infection even six months after this torture.

Practitioner Ms. Yi Shuling was thrown into a cell in isolation in May 2003. Labor camp officers ordered inmates Sun Xun and Ren Fengxia to torture her, depriving her from drinking any water, and Liu Xiuyun struck her on the head with a folding stool. Her mouth was gagged with a rope and she could not brush her teeth. One night in July 2003, Ms. Yi Shuling was secretly sent to a mental hospital for further abuse.

The practitioner is pushed onto the lower bunk facing downward. Her hands and legs are pulled back and tied up together. She is then lifted and hung on to the top bunk. Only her chest and head touch the lower bunk, supporting the entire body weight. Under this torture, the practitioner's face would turn dark purple and she would have difficulty breathing. If kept in this position too long, the victim would face death by suffocation.

The practitioner would be forced to stand on tiptoes, both arms raised upward with her back pressed against the wall. If she lost her balance or her back shifted away from the wall, criminals would kick or crush the practitioner's feet with plastic high-heeled shoes. The kicking lasted until the legs and feet of the practitioner turned dark purple and were terribly swollen. Some practitioners would not be able to walk, and their feet remained deformed for over half a year. On one occasion, all male officers were called in to torture all the practitioners in the labor camp with their backs pressed against the wall for a whole day. Some elderly practitioners who failed to last in this position were cursed at and beaten by inmates standing nearby, who kicked their legs and crushed their feet.

A partial list of officers at the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp:

Jiang Lihang, Liu Yulan and Yang, directors of the labor camp
Yang Enwei, of the political section
Wang Xincai, of the propaganda section
Tian Wei and He Xufang, of the management section
Wang Shuzhen, Feng Yuzhen, Sun Xiufeng, of Division No. 1: 86-531-8191744
Xu Ruiju, Cao Dongyan, Yin Chuanfang, Xu Hong, Li Aisheng, Li Min, Sun Xia, Wang Xiaowei, Liu Fang, Chang, of Division No. 2
Liu Ruiqin, Wang Yueyao, Sun Qunli, Wang Yunyan, Xu Hua, Zhang Hongfen, Zhang Yawen, Shen Hongguang, Lu Ying, Kong Yanxia, of Division No. 3: 86-531-8191151, workshop extension: 86-531-8555040 ext. 8035
Niu Xuelian, Liang Qiaoling, Sun Juan, Li Chunhong, Kong Qinghua, Zhang Hong, Jiang, Wang, Ma, Nie, of Division 5
Address: No. 20 Jiangshuiquan Road, the Lixia District of Jinan City, Shandong Province, Postal Code: 250014

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/12/25/92139.html

1. [Guangshan County, Henan Province] Chen Yurong Detained for Distributing Falun Gong Truth-Clarifying Materials

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Yurong, 45, lives at Yangbang Lane, Luhe Village, Luocheng Township, Guangshan County. On January 1, 2005 she went to Yanhe Township to distribute truth-clarifying materials. Policemen from Yanhe Township arrested her and immediately took her to the county's detention center. Before the Chinese Lunar New Year she was detained in the backyard and her family was not allowed to visit her.

2. [Kashizepu County, Xinjiang AR] Falun Gong practitioner Chen Donghua and Others Arrested, Their Whereabouts are Unknown

On January 22, 2005, police from Hetian District arrested practitioners Chen Donghua, Li Haijuan, and Li Xulong from Kashizepu County, Xinjiang AR. Currently their whereabouts are unknown.

3. [Henan Province] Yan Xinliang Detained at the Xiping Police Precinct for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

Practitioner Mr. Yan Xinliang, who is approximately 20 years old, is from Henan Province. He was detained at Xuchang City's Forced Labor Camp for three years and then released. In mid-February 2005, when he went to Xiping County to distribute truth-clarifying materials, personnel from Xiping County's Police Precinct detained him.

4. [Guang'an City, Sichuan Province] Chen Daiping and His Wife Zhang Rong Arrested for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

On January 8, 2005 when Chen Daiping and his wife Zhang Rong from Fangping Village, Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, went to Hualong Village to distribute truth-clarifying materials, a group of policemen arrested the couple. Zhang Rong was beaten so brutally that she could not walk. Because the couple had three children under 10 years old at home, Zhang Rong was taken back home the second day while Chen Daiping was detained at Cell No. 4 in Guang'an City's Detention Center. On January 19, Chen Daiping's family went to see him and requested that the detention center release him, but their request was rejected. Chen Daiping's life is in peril due to brutal torture. He can not eat anything. During a medical check-up he was found to have ascites (abnormal accumulation of serous fluid).

On June 19, 2004, a group of plainclothes policemen arrested practitioner Mr. Lei Lichun. Lei Lichun's wife, a non-practitioner, was also arrested at her workplace. The police confiscated 4,800 yuan in cash and all their personal belongings from their apartment. They dragged the couple for interrogation to a place where they keep demi-wolves. That same night they took Lei Lichun to the Pipashan Detention Center. The detention center refused to accept Lei Lichun because he was diagnosed with lung problems. Personnel were called in to take Lei Lichun back to Guang'an City.

Luo Cheng and other personnel from Guang'an City's National Security Team took Lei Lichun to the Chengbei District Police Department, put him in handcuffs and shackles, and deprived him of sleep for several days. Lei Lichun's non-practitioner wife was also sent to Guang'an City's Hua Brainwashing Class and detained there for several months. Lei Lichun's uncle was forced to write seven pages of "testimony." All the crimes he listed [against them] were completely fabricated.

Lei Lichun staged a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Later he showed symptoms of multiple diseases. The Hua Detention Center urged police to take Lei Lichun back, but Luo Cheng and others ignored the notice. Instead, they instigated Lei Lichun's wife to divorce him, claiming, "He would not make it" to Chinese New Year. Lei Lichun's parents demanded his release several times, but all in vain.

Practitioner Ms. Chen Yuzhen, 52, is from Wangjing Village, Zhoukoudian Town, Fangshan District, Beijing. She obtained the Fa in 1997 and cultivated steadily thereafter. In April 2002 he was sentenced to 18 months of forced labor. Since her release, personnel from the police station and 610 Office have been harassing her incessantly. In mid-January 2005, local police arrested Chen Yuzhen, ransacked her house, and confiscated many of the personal belongings. Right now, Chen Yuzhen is being held at the Fangshan District Detention Center.

Jia Guojie is from Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. In 2001 he was arrested at Guangzhou City's First Military Medical University for distributing Dafa truth-clarifying materials. Later he was sentenced to three years of forced labor and was not released until the beginning of 2004. On around the New Year's Day of 2005, a railway policeman arrested Jia Guojie on a train in route from Guangzhou City to Taiyuan City while he was distributing truth-clarifying materials. Jia Guojie is now being held at Jishan County's Detention Center in Shanxi Province.

Peng Meizhi is from Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province. Police from the Haizhu District arrested her during the 2005 Chinese Lunar New Year when she was visiting her relatives in Guangzhou City.

Falun Gong practitioners were cruelly tortured by the police at the Zibo Labor Camp in Shandong Province. Their evil deeds are countless. The Labor Camp guard Liu Jicao fiercely pinched the neck of Falun Gong practitioner Shao Chengle at the labor camp hospital. Policeman Xu of the health section hit Shao Chengle's waist with his knee, and also used a pair of iron pliers to pry open Shao Chengle's mouth to force food down it, causing much bleeding. Another practitioner, Zhang Guangbao, was handcuffed for the whole summer and was often beaten and kicked. The prison guards handcuffed Chu Liwen to an iron bed and then instructed Yang Hongjun to tie up Chu's legs and brutally torture him.

Seven or eight collaborators were assigned to brainwash every newly abducted Falun Gong practitioner. They did not allow practitioners to sleep, but kept brainwashing and torturing them. As a result, many practitioners became muddle-headed and felt dizzy as they walked. In the coldest winter, the labor camp only allowed Falun Gong practitioners to wear light garments. The guards even used needles to stab practitioners' faces.

Number of Resignations from the CCP Soars as the People Clearly Recognize the True Nature of the Communist Evil Spirit

Comprehensive report from a Minghui correspondent: The Chinese Communist evil spirit has chosen to go against Falun Dafa, and it is doomed to be thoroughly eliminated before the Fa-rectification reaches the human world. In order to avoid bringing disaster upon themselves when the Party's end arrives, it is imperative for people who once joined the CCP or other organizations affiliated with the Party, and were thus branded with the mark of the beast, to take advantage of this opportunity to declare their withdrawal from the Party or the Youth League.

Number of people who have resigned from the Party accumulated monthly by the Epoch Times Tuidang [Withdraw from the Party] website (As of March 7, 2005)

In November 2004, the Epoch Times published the editorial series, "Nine Commentaries on the CCP," enabling the Chinese people who have been living under the CCP's lies and deceptions for a long period of time to clearly see the Communist Party's true nature. With the wide circulation of Jiuping or "Nine Commentaries" and people's gradual and deeper understanding of the Communist evil spirit, there has occurred an upsurge of resignation announcements. The resignations from the Party or the Youth League transferred through Minghui net have doubled recently. The announcements received on the morning of March 7, 2005 reached 2,000, including a group resignation from the Party or the Youth League with 199 signers. Another group declaration included 583 people. The announcements transferred through Minghui included Falun Dafa practitioners who have clearly recognized the evil nature of the Communist evil spirit, but it also included ordinary people who have gradually seen the CCP's brutal and evil nature through the atrocities it has committed in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners who truly cultivate themselves to be kind people. Especially after reading the "Nine Commentaries on the CCP," these people felt that they could no longer be associated with the Party, and therefore they submitted their resignations from the Party, Youth League and Youth Vanguard League.

It has been reported that the CCP recently continued to apply strong measures to block all communication networks in a bid to prevent the "Nine Commentaries" from getting into China. The domestic media have all remained silent about the "Nine Commentaries." In January 2005, the CCP launched a "Maintain Advancement" correction movement inside the Party. Great pressure has been applied to people to join the party, while Party members have been gathered together to study the Party's constitution and history, retake the "oath" and so on. But it seems that it is becoming more and more difficult to stem the tide of the wave of resignations. Upon hearing that the Party's consolidation movement was caused by the "Nine Commentaries," the public has been more anxious to read the original treatise. It has been hard to ban the "Nine Commentaries" both publicly and inside the Party, and it has circulated rapidly. Many people have asked travel agencies to have "Nine Commentaries" brought back with tourists, and they have asked overseas family members or friends to resign from the Party for them.

As of March 7, 2005, the number of resignations from the Party or the Youth League announced on the Epoch Times Tuidang website has exceeded 160,000, and it has rapidly increased at the rate of 10,000 daily. Most resignations from the Party or Youth League are from Mainland China, covering almost all of the provinces, cities and areas in China, and including people from all professions and all walks of life: civil servants, engineering technicians, government officials, scholars and literati, teachers, professors, workers, farmers, police officers, soldiers, and so on.

Epoch Times: "The Killing of So Many Falun Gong Practitioners Must be Investigated" -- Open Letter by Shandong University Professor to Political Consultative Conference

Mar 08, 2005

Sun Wenguang, a professor of Shandong University. (The Epoch Times)

Sun Wenguang is a professor from Shandong University. This is a letter that he wrote to The Epoch Times.

There are pamphlets about Falun Gong practitioners having been persecuted to death in plenty of prisons throughout Mainland China in recent years. There are also reports that more than one thousand people have been persecuted to death. Most of them have been identified by name, address and photos.

I am not a Falun Gong practitioner, but I believe that these practitioners do have basic human rights. The right to live is one of the most basic human rights. There is an old saying, "Human life should be treated with the utmost care." If indeed more than one thousand people have died in prison, and that too without being brought to trial first, then this issue should be seriously investigated.

In a few days, the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference will be held. I suggest that they discuss these allegations at the conference.

Some people have said that "persecuting Falun Gong practitioners to death" is a rumor. If it is indeed a rumor, the authorities should investigate it using the names and addresses reported in overseas media. If these allegations are verified, they should report it to the public. If it is a rumor, the rumormongers should be held responsible for their actions.

The Chinese Communist Party authorities treat Falun Gong practitioners who appeal for justice as "enemies." They say that practitioners "fabricate rumors." If the authorities can prove this with truthful evidence - that there are no "people being persecuted to death" - doesn't it show that the CCP is really "great, honorable, and correct?" If the judiciary doesn't investigate such a serious "rumor," isn't it negligent? If the Central Propaganda Department, which controls the CCP's media, does not report on it or refute the rumor, isn't it also negligent?

The Deputies to the National People's Congress and the committeemen of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference should not ignore such serious allegations and pretend to have been uninformed for such a long time.

On Saturday March 5, 2005, practitioners of Falun Gong visited Hlohovec, a medium-sized city in western Slovakia, to let people know about the continuing persecution against the practice in China. Even though the weather was freezing, the sun came out and warmed everyone up as the practitioners spent the day handing out leaflets and chatting to local people. They told people about the benefits they have received from practicing Falun Gong, as well as the brutal persecution that is happening in China and has already taken the lives of over 1,400 people.

People greeted the practitioners with a warm and friendly welcome. An elderly lady came over from a nearby bakery and said, "I saw you sitting on the ground. You must be cold. Can I bring you some tea?" She soon came back with hot tea and warm pastries, for which she refused to take any payment. The practitioners thanked her profusely for her kindness.

Another man said, "If you had not come here today, I would never have known that something like this is happening in China. It is really horrific." Many people stopped to sign the petition and show their disdain and disapproval of the persecution.

German Newspaper Rhein-Neckar Zeitung Reports on Musician Who Composes Songs about the Persecution of Falun Gong

The following article was featured in the German newspaper Rhein-Neckar Zeitung on Thursday February 24, 2005.

Although his professional training is that of a machinist and gardener, many of his fans remember Michael Hackmayer as a rock musician. He is the former lead singer and keyboard player of the band "Wild Frontier" who played gigs during the eighties throughout the Kraichgau area.

But that is in the past, and now Hackmayer plays to a different audience. He has a different repertoire and a different agenda: he is fighting against human rights violations. He appeared with his friend, pianist and music teacher Jacek Wohlers in a recent concert at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of a Gala event for Chinese New Year. The organizers of the event, a liberal TV station run by Chinese people residing abroad, are not the only ones to hold a despairing view of the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China. Hackmayer and Wohlers presented songs and ballads dealing with the fates of victims of persecution in China.

Hackmayer is employed by the Demeter's Nursery in Gondelsheim, a former member of the Hilsbach church choir and musically quite talented. His musical focus has shifted and his songs have a fresh content. He has become interested in the repertoire of romantic period composers Schubert and Schumann and is receiving voice training from an opera singer in Karlsruhe.

For the past three years, Hackmayer has used music to fight against torture and the persecution of religious, political and ethnic minorities at the hands of the politically powerful in the People's Republic of China. He has already cut two CDs. "Der friedliche Weg" ("A Peaceful Journey") appeared in 2002. It was followed in 2003 by "Freiheit für Xiong Wei" ("Freedom for Xiong Wei"), whom the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) was trying to help escape imprisonment through petition campaigns.

Hackmayer considers songs the ideal medium to "explain to people what is happening in China." He has a personal relationship with China, although he only speaks a few words of Mandarin and has never been to the People's Republic. He met his girlfriend and future wife Zhou, an engineer from Hangzhou who used to work in Walldorf, when he started to learn a meditative Qigong practice in Mannheim. The exercises freed him from his constant back pain, which neither chiropractors nor conventional or homeopathic medicine had been able to relieve previously.

This particular meditative practice had been promoted with the support of the government in 1992 in China. However, everything changed in 1999, when this meditative practice, which is based on Buddhist principles and on the harmonious integration of mind and body and does not have a formal organization or structure, had attracted 100 million followers. To this date, they are being arrested, persecuted, tortured and taken to forced labor camps.

Hackmayer and his friends, fellow Falun Gong practitioners who meet for group practice in the Baden area, thought it was only natural to take steps to raise awareness about the human rights violations in China. He thought it would make sense for him to use his talents: ballads, songs and communally produced CDs.

The song collection "Freedom for Xiong Wei" drew the attention of the IGFM and they issued an invitation. This led to the IGFM gala event in November 2003 which was held at the "Rotes Rathaus" (Red City Hall) on Berlin's Alexander Square, which demanded improved human rights in China. Hackmayer and Wohlers appeared at additional gala events: January 2004 in Paris and March 2004 in Geneva, which also coincided with the UN Human Rights Day. The evangelical Christian is not a fanatic and he uses simple words to describe his activism: "I am taking a stand for human rights. If there is anything I can do, I am happy to do it." Currently, he is celebrating his next CD with some of his fellow musicians. It is scheduled to appear in the summer. In addition, he is looking forward to his wedding. The couple will be married in St. Anne's chapel in Steinberg.

Chinese version available at http://de.clearharmony.net/articles/200503/22509.html

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tang Jianping from Weiyuan County in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province died on August 28, 2002 at the age of 29 as a result of brutal persecution at the Mianyang Forced Labor Camp, leaving behind his 3-year-old son Tang Hanglin.

Orphan's Name: Tang Hanglin
Gender: Male
Current Age: 6
Guardians: His grandfather and grandmother Ms. Yuan Jinrong

Tang Hanglin is enrolled at the Xijie Elementary School in Weiyuan County. He is being raised by his paternal grandfather and grandmother, both of whom have long been laid off from their jobs. They are having a hard time making a living and rely on the support of relatives, friends and Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Tang Jianping's wife, Ms. Wang Huaying, was forced into a divorce by the local police. In addition, she has been dismissed from her job and is not able to raise her son.

Mr. Tang Jianping was an employee of the Tianfu Brick Factory in Weiyuan County. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1995. After the suppression started on July 20, 1999, Mr. Tang was taken into custody six times. While he was in custody, the police instigated over a dozen inmates to beat him until he passed out. He was then doused with cold water until he regained consciousness. The inmates inserted a toothbrush into his rectum and rotated it until he started bleeding. They held him on the ground and pulled out all his pubic hair, and struck him between his eyebrows continuously with the middle finger until a blood blister formed. He was also forced to eat food and cigarette butts off the ground. Mr. Tang suffered extreme mental and physical abuse. His internal organs, including lungs, intestines, stomach, suffered severe damage, and there was serious internal bleeding. He was denied medical treatment and sent to the Mianyang Forced Labor Camp for further torture. In the labor camp, Mr. Tang's internal injuries worsened. His chest and lower abdomen became swollen and he could not walk, eat or drink. The labor camp authorities notified his family and allowed them to take him home only when he started to vomit blood and have bloody urine and stools frequently. His family borrowed money from all available sources to pay for his medical treatment, to no avail. Mr. Tang Jianping died on August 28, 2002 while vomitting blood. He was only 29 years old.

More information regarding Mr. Tang's torture death by officers of the Weiyuan County Detention Center is available at this link: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/3/13/45987.html

Falun Gong Practitioner Hu Yongfeng from Xiangtan University in Hunan Province Dies Unjustly Due to the Persecution

Mr. Hu Yongfeng, 69, was a Hunan Cili County resident and a retired staff member from Xiangtan University. He started Falun Gong practice in 1996. In June 2000, he traveled to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. He was illegally arrested and charged with "disruption of social order," and was confined at the local Jing Tangwan Detention Center for 15 days. After his release, the school department's 610 Office personnel placed him under house arrest. He was forced to undergo several brainwashing sessions conducted by the university.

Sometime around December 26, 2000, Hu Yongfeng was abducted by the Xiangtan University Security Police while he was walking along the street. He was taken to the newly opened Changsha re-education center, where he was confined and forced to undergo re-education through hard labor. He was stripped of his party membership, and his retirement pension was suspended without any just cause.

A year later in 2002, after his release from the labor camp, the 610 Office officials at the school continually harassed and intimidated Mr. Hu, this time extending the harassment to include his wife, who is also a Falun Gong practitioner.

In late November 2004, Hu Yongfeng traveled to Changsha to visit his daughter. Within weeks of his visit, the family started receiving harassing phone calls from the 610 Office officials. The intimidation and harassment occurred several times per day, and severely disrupted and interfered with the family's life. Under this intimidation and pressure, the couple felt there was no choice but to hurriedly leave Changsha and return to Xiangtan University on December 13, 2004, to inquire as to why the 610 Office was doing this. Hu Yongfeng died suddenly on the second day of their return at around noon.

Other Falun Gong practitioners from Xiangtan University who were also persecuted include:

Service Sector Accountant Lu Xiqiong, retired teacher Qin Sanfung from the high school affiliated with the Xiangtan University, retired Professor Zhou Chuanhui, and Tang Zhaomei. In September 2001, the school security officer and the municipal public security bureau police plotted to use the case of Professor Tang Zhaomei as an opportune case to "render meritorious service to win a promotion." Since they could not find anything improper to build the case with, they arranged an agent to plant some false evidence inside Professor Tang's home. Within minutes, the police broke into Professor Tang's house and arrested him. He was abducted and illegally imprisoned for one month at the Triangle Ground lock-up center.

Professor Zhou Chuanhui was forcibly abducted twice from his residence and detained at the detention center. The police broke into his home three times, illegally conducted searches, and confiscated his personal property, including over 10,000 yuan in cash. He was illegally stripped of his salary for nearly 18 months.

Related telephone numbers:
Xiangtan University zip code is: 411105
610 Office leaders Fan Liangjia: 86-732-8293598 (Home), 86-732-8292417 (Office), 86-13973227837 (Cell)
School 610 Office deputy leader Liang Yibing: 86-732-8292393 (Home), 86-732-8292417 (Office)
School security department head Li Xinguo: 86-732-8292353 (Home), 86-732-8292119 (Office);

Former school security office department chief Xiao Jiguang (Currently transferred to Xiangtan University graduate studies department): 86-732-2371159 (Home)

1. Ms. Hu Guimin was a 66-year old Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Puyang City, Henan Province. Since July 1999, the police frequently came to her home to harass her. They also ransacked her home. In April 2003, the persecutors harassed and threatened her 28 times. Ms. Hu was forced to leave her home to avoid further persecution. After suffering a stroke, she was taken to a hospital. The police came to the hospital and threatened her: "We know that you cannot move now. We would have arrested and sentenced you to forced labor had you not been sick." Hu's health continued to deteriorate and she died on May 19, 2003.

2. Mr. Wang Zhenshan was a 50-year old resident of Qingle Village, Xinxingmanzu Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. He began to practice Falun Gong in 1996. He was firm in his practice and therefore enjoyed good health. Since July 20, 1999, the persecutors came to his home frequently and harassed him. They searched for Falun Gong books and Teacher's pictures throughout his home. This persecution was too much for Mr. Wang and he became sick to the point of being bedridden. One year later, he went to Beijing to appeal in 2002, despite his physical condition. After he safely returned, members of the village and town 610 Office harassed him many times. As a result, his health condition worsened and Mr. Wang died in December of 2003.

3. Ms. Yang Gaoshi was a 93-year-old resident of Qingle Village, Xinxingmanzu Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. In 1996, she began to practice Falun Gong. Her son, grandson and granddaughter-in-law also practice Falun Gong. After the persecution started, her son and granddaughter-in-law were arrested twice and severely tortured. The elderly lady went to the brainwashing center to ask the persecutors to release her son and granddaughter-in-law. Members of the local 610 Office manhandled her and dragged her out of the brainwashing center. Ms. Yang was injured by this brutal treatment and she became bedridden. In December 8, 2002, Ms. Yang died.

4. Mr. Qi Guorong was an 81-year old resident of Xiaoqijia Village, Xiaoqijia Town, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province. His entire family practiced Falun Gong. After July 20, 1999, the persecutors broke into and ransacked his home repeatedly. They also arrested, harassed, and abused the entire family. In late 2001, two of his sons and one daughter in law were arrested at home and sentenced to 18 months of forced labor. The elderly man was deeply affected by the suffering of his family and by being separated from his sons. He suffered many hardships as a result of their being away. As a result, Mr. Qi died in April of 2002 due to the prolonged harassment and mental torture.

5. Ms. Zhou Changli was 52 years old. She was a retired worker from the No. 2 Textile Machinery Factory in Changde City, Hunan Province. After she began to practice Falun Gong in 1997, her kidney condition, a hereditary disease that many of her family members suffered, disappeared and she enjoyed good health. On October 25, 2000, after Jiang's regime began to persecute Falun Gong, Ms. Zhou went to Beijing to clarify the truth. The police arrested her on Tiananmen Square and took her to a nearby police station. The persecutors transferred her to the Shunyi Area Detention Center and the Liaison Office of Hunan Province in Beijing. Then, the security section head from the No. 2 Textile Machinery Factory and some policemen from Deshan District Police Station took her to the Taohuaxian Detention Center in Hunan Province. During the unlawful interrogation, the police humiliated her using dirty language, and a tall policeman kicked her hard with his leather shoes. Inside the detention center, Ms. Zhou suffered from acute leg pain, yet she was still forced to plant vegetables on a farm daily. She suffered both mentally and physically.

Ms. Zhou was detained in the detention center for 15 days, and they extorted over 6,000 yuan from her. In May 2001, someone reported her to the police while she was watching a truth-clarifying CD. The police arrested her and detained her again in the Taohuaxian Detention Center. The security section head from the No. 2 Textile Machinery Factory came to the detention center many times, trying to brainwash her. The perpetrators also ordered Ms. Zhou's brother and sister (who live in Wuhan City, Hubei Province) to persuade her to give up her practice. Under pressure, Ms. Zhou copied the Three Statements prepared by the security section head.

After she was released, Ms. Zhou's husband and daughter prevented her from reading Falun Gong books and practicing the exercises, as they were also were pressured by their own work units. Her husband and daughter took away all of her Falun Gong books and truth-clarifying materials. A few months later, she went to see a doctor because of the acute pain in her legs. The medical exam showed that she suffered from late stage lung cancer. On October 22, 2001, Ms. Zhou Changli died as a direct result of the prolonged mental and physical torture she had endured.

In 2004 I was arrested and detained at Wuchang City's 610 Office. Now, I am going to expose the 610 Office's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

The head of the "610 Office," Zhu Xianfu, is hypocritical and quite vicious behind a pleasant facade.

Fu Yanchun, the head of the brainwashing center, is a cruel person. He verbally and physically abuses, threatens and beats Falun Gong practitioners. It does not matter whether they are young or old, male or female.

Mo Zhenshan and Jing Ji (female) are Fu Yanchun's helpers and are heavily involved in arresting practitioners, searching their homes and persecuting practitioners.

Making up a fake list of practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong; arresting them at their workplaces or at their homes.

Conspiring with personnel at a practitioner's workplace to arrange for their arrest.

Deceiving practitioners' relatives to get their help in capturing the practitioners.

Having one who had gone astray from practice due to torture and brainwashing to trick the practitioner into meeting them for practice in order to frame the Falun Gong practitioner.

Transferring practitioners who just finished serving their terms and had been released from a labor camp or a detention center to a brainwashing center "to get re-educated" before allowing them to return home.

Practitioners captured by personnel from the Wuchang "610 Office" were ordered to sign the so-called Three Statements. If they refused, Fu Yanchun commenced gross physical abuse, such as slapping them on their faces, kicking and punching them, cuffing their hands, forcing them to squat for extended time periods, or otherwise beating them with rubber tubes. He then forced them to submit their fingerprints on the statements. If they continued to refuse to give up their belief, the 610 officials would not let them sleep for a whole night and repeat the above-mentioned physical abuse. Some practitioners were beaten so badly that they were covered with bruises; some walked awkwardly; some could not get out of bed; some ended up in the hospital. Even when they did not have a complete recovery, the 610 Office still labeled them as not "reformed" and sent them back to face continued torture.

Many practitioners signed the Three Statements because they could no longer tolerate the long term physical abuse; however, the even more cruel mental abuse had just begun. The "reformed" practitioners were separated from the others and monitored by the "610" personnel. They were forced to watch a video in the morning and read books in the afternoon. The video and the books contained fabrications, lies and slander against Falun Gong. After they watched and read, they would have to critique what they had "learned," write down their thoughts and periodically report to the "610" officials. For those who were unwilling to be reformed, this was a much more agonizing experience than the physical abuse, but they had to express the complete opposite of what they really believed in order to convince the officials that they were truly "reformed." Otherwise, they would be accused of being stubborn or unyielding, and not reformed. If that were the case, they would be put into anther cycle of brainwashing with additional mental torment.

Wuchang's 610 Office personnel used various methods to detain more practitioners to reach their goal of extorting money. The officials' average monthly salary is about 1,000 Yuan, however, they would receive a monetary reward if they could make a practitioner give up his/her belief, and they took advantage of it. If a practitioner is sent the 610 Office for brainwashing, his workplace has to pay 2,000 Yuan per month for the practitioner's stay there. In order to obtain the highest profit, they would keep the practitioners there for a longer time so that they could extort more money. For those practitioners who were arrested from home, if the relatives could pay the "dues" of 3,000 or 4000 Yuan, then the practitioner would be released. For those who refused to give up their belief, the officials demanded more money for their release or simply detained them for a longer time. They also held the practitioners who were just released from a labor camp or a detention center at the office before they let them rejoin their families, so they could collect an additional "education fee."

Since the formation of Wuchang's 610 Office, more than one hundred practitioners have been illegally arrested. The amount of money collected is as high as several hundred thousand Yuan. The 610 Office head Zhu Xianfu was rehired and remained in the same position, even after his retirement. Fu Yanchun's relatives were quoted as saying, "Fu used to be very poor, but became rich after joining the '610 Office.' Thanks to his work there, he has managed to afford an apartment and a personal car."

I was released by the "610 Office" several months ago, but I continue to experience persecution. I had bad dreams for many days after I was released. I often heard Fu Yanchun's roaring voice as well as the voices of practitioners' suffering, but I also heard the loud and clear sound, "Falun Dafa is great!"

Address:
Wuchang City 610 Office
3rd floor, Zhongzi Company, Wuchang City,
Heilongjiang Province, China 150200

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Zhaoxiang is thirty-seven years old, and a resident of Worker's Village, Dongshan District, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province. The police recently arrested him. No one knows of his whereabouts.

Mr. Zhou was sentenced to forced labor twice since the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999. His father works away from home, and his mother is paralyzed. His mother's condition requires constant care.

Relevant Phone Numbers:
Director of Dongshan District Police Station: 86-468-3567777
Worker's Village Police Substation: 86-468-3572787
Dongshan District 610 Office, Wang Yanming (male): 86-468-3537610

2. [Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province] Mr. Zhou Dechang and Mr. Chai Dengyi Are Arrested and Imprisoned

Around August 2004, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhou Dechang from Jinchuan County, Aba Prefecture and Mr. Chai Dengyi from Danba County, Ganzi Prefecture were reported when they were out clarifying the truth. Danba County Police arrested them. Mr. Zhou Dechang was sentenced to seven years in prison. Mr. Chai Dengyi's feet were severely injured from torture. As a result, he has not been sentenced to prison yet, and is currently detained in the Danba County Detention Center.

In May 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Gu Yanqing from Pulandian City, Liaoning Province was handing out truth clarifying materials in Zhongzhenggou Tun, Zhenggou Village, Chengzitan Town, Pulandian City. The village Party Secretary, Sun Yuquan (male) reported him and had police officer Wang Shuiyong (male) and Jiang Chunsheng (male) arrest Mr. Gu. He is now detained in Pulandian City Detention Center.

Relevant Phone Numbers:
Sun Yuquan: 86-411-83212298 (Home), 86-13940851089 (Cell phone)
Director of Pulandian City Police Station: 86-411-83138799
Police Chengzitan Town Station: 86-411-83432192, or 86-411-83436220, Operator, 86-411-83432047.

At noon on January 24, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. An Senbiao went to Yuanshengli Police Substation to clarify the truth. He was arrested for handing out Dafa materials. Around 4 p.m. that day, police officer Liu Yanqing (male) and another police officer, Party Secretary E Jintai (male) from the Second Petroleum Collecting Plant and Deputy Secretary Wang Xizhong found Mr. An's house key while doing a body search. They ransacked his home in the presence of his wife. Mr. An is detained in Longfeng Detention Center.

Relevant Phone Numbers:
Party Secretary of Second Petroleum Collecting Plan, E Jintai: 86-459-52816229 (Office), 86-459-5106099 (Office), 86-13704668500 (Cell phone)
Party Secretary Wang Xizhong (a lower ranked official): 86-459-5291543 (Office), 86-459-5763772 (Home), 86-13836740661 (Cell phone)

5. [Jiaohe City, Jilin Province] Ms. Li Guirong and Her Daughter Yang Tiemei Are Arrested

On January 21, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Li Guirong and her daughter Yang Tiemei from Dengchang Village, Chishui Township, Jiaohe City, Jilin Province were reported when they were distributing truth clarifying materials. They were arrested by police from Songjiang Town Substation in Jiaohe City. Ms. Yang Tiemei had previously been sentenced to one year of forced labor in 2002.

Recently, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Xiuying from Dalian City was posting truth-clarifying materials in Northeast Second Power Company of Dalian City. She was captured on a hidden camera and police from the local Lingshuiqiao Substation later arrested her.

On November 24, 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lai Caijun, a teacher at Chaoyangjie Elementary School in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, was reported for clarifying the truth to her students. She was arrested by State Security Agent Fu Yanling (male) and police officer Chen Zhi. Ms. Lai is now detained in a detention center. The state security officials tried to sue her by filing a case against her in Lingyuan City Procuratorate.

Relevant Phone Numbers of Court Officials
Liu Zhixin (male): 86-421-6883501 (Office), 86-421-6810545 (Home), 86-13188171566 (Cell phone)
Zhang Baiyan (male): 86-421-6883502 (Office), 86-421-6822858 (Home), 86-13008240463 (Cell phone)

Public Prosecution Office:
Li Xinghua (male): 86-421-6883526 (Office), 86-421-6820496 (Home), 86-421-13942106700 (Cell phone)
Liu Shufeng (female): 86-421-6883528 (Office), 86-421-6823198 (Home)
Director of Lingyuan City Police Station Guo Shaolin (male): 86-421-6883101 (Office), 86-421-7816791 (Home), 86-13904912586 (Cell phone)
Director of Detention Center Yu Hailong (male): 86-421-6883215 (Office), 86-421-6824383 (Home), 86-13904916383 (Cell phone)

8. [Haicheng City, Liaoning Province] A Falun Gong practitioner Is Arrested When Distributing Truth-Clarification Materials

At 2 p.m. on January 24, 2005, a Falun Gong practitioner was arrested for distributing truth clarifying materials in Sanjiazi Village, Wenxiang Town, Haicheng City, Liaoning Province. The practitioner is detained in Haicheng City Detention Center. This practitioner has not revealed his/her name.

9. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Mr. Yu Shenghe and His Wife Ma Guizhen from Changyi City Are Arrested Again

Around midnight on January 17, 2005, police tried to arrest Mr. Yu Shenghe and his wife Ma Guizhen by pounding on their door. Around 6 or 7 a.m. the next morning, police officers Yang and Zhai Jiantao from Shifi Town got on a truck belonging to Mr. Yu's neighbor. He climbed over a wall in order to into get into Mr. Yu's house and then arrested the couple.

On January 8, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhu Haiding from Suizhou City, Hubei Province was arrested from his home by police from Rudong County, Jiangsu Province. Mr. Zhu was reported to the police after spreading the truth of Falun Dafa in Rudong County, Jiangsu Province.

11. [Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province] Mr. Li Zhenfang, Mr. Zhang Mingfang and Ms. Xiao Shanrun from Bucun Mine Are Under Close Surveillance

Around the end of January 2005, Fucun Coal Mine (under Zibo City Mining Bureau) sent people to closely monitor three retired employees, Mr. Li Zhenfang, Mr. Zhang Mingfang, and Ms. Xiao Shanyun.

Relevant Phone Numbers:
Shengjing Town Police Substation Office: 86-531-3681006
Li Zhongjun (male): 86-531-3255629 (call his home early morning or evenings), 86-13864111669 (Cell phone)
Fucun Town Police Substation: 86-531-3711037,86-531-3711377
Fucun Mine Party Committee Office: 86-531-3711065
Zhangqiu City 610 Office: 86-531-3212281

12. [Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province] Zhai Shanyong from Zaoyuan Town Is Sentenced to Eighteen Months of Forced Labor

On the evening of October 19, 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhai Shanyong was reported for distributing truth-clarifying materials in Baita Village, Zaoyuan Town, Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province. The local police arrested him and sentenced him to 18 months of forced labor. Mr. Zhai is now imprisoned in Wangcun Labor Camp in Shandong Province.

Zhangqiu City Anti-[slanderous term omitted] Team Leader Yang Bingliang (male): 86-531-3310927 (Home), 86-13606371610 (Cell phone)

13. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Police from Guta District Arrest the Child of a Falun Gong practitioner

Around 9 a.m. on January 21, 2005, two police officers from Beijie Substation of Guta District, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province ransacked Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Hui's home. They took away her Falun Dafa books, Teacher Li's photo, and truth clarifying materials. Ms. Xu Hui's son was arrested as well, and is detained in Jinzhou City Detention Center.

On December 25, 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Zhengfen (a post office employee in her 50s) and Ms. Xu Wenxiu (a Chongqing City department store employee in her 60s) were arrested by police when clarifying the truth in Jilong, Banan District. No one knows their current whereabouts.

Around January 15, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Gao Xingfa (in his 60s) from Quepo Village, Hongning Town, Wulian County, Shandong Province was arrested by police from Wulian County Station. He is detained in the County Detention Center.

Zhuan Falun is Officially Published in Slovakian Czech Republic: Falun Gong Invited to Charitable Concert and Exhibition in Moravia Canada: Edmonton Practitioners Introduce Falun Gong at Health Exhibit

The main book of Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun, was published in the Slovak language this month. Zhuan Falun was a best seller in Beijing, China during 1996. The book has transformed millions of lives, giving people back their superior health and allowing them to practice genuine cultivation according to higher principles. The profundity of this book cannot be described in words - it is something one has to experience.

From the books' publishing in 1995 in China, Zhuan Falun has now been translated into more than 30 languages. The style is widely accessible and unadorned, because the book is transcribed from the public lectures of Mr. Li Hongzhi, which took place in China from 1992 to 1994. Zhuan Falun won the hearts of people from all walks of life - from scholars and officials, to farmers and retired people. Slovakian practitioners hope that the people of Slovakia will appreciate its value.

The book Zhuan Falun (ISBN 80-88969-23-9), as well as the introductory book Falun Gong (ISBN 80-88969-16-6), are available at local bookstores or directly at CAD Press publishing house.

Czech Republic: Falun Gong Invited to Charitable Concert and Exhibition in Moravia

On March 5, Falun Gong practitioners were invited to an evening charity event held in the southern Moravia town of Mikulcice to tell people the truth about the onging brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. The organizers also invited several bands to perform and hosted various alternative and ecological exhibitions.

The band that was opening the evening event called upon people to come to see our Exhibition. They said: "...China tortures its own people in shocking ways..." The organisors of the whole event didn't stay behind between the concerts; they invited people to support our efforts by signing the petition calling for an end of the persecution.

People were constantly coming to our exhibition where they could see our live re-enactment of torture methods, the Falun Gong exercises, read many display boards about the persecution, and sign our petitions. Some even expressed their wish to read the Nine Commentaries recently published by the Epoch Times. They left their email addresses so they could get it as an E-book.

One of the first visitors was a reporter from the newspaper "Denik Moravia." He interviewed practitioners about their activities and the persecution. He was very interested in the on-going workshop in which people was learning how to fold lotus flower from sheets of paper. He wanted to know why people were doing that and if it was a symbol of something. So practitioners explained to him that the lotus flower is symbol of cultivation, that it grows from the mud on the bottom of lakes and rises up as a beautiful flower symbolizing the process of cultivation in which people purify their bodies and raise up their moral character. After hearing this, the reporter joined the group and folded a lotus flower on his own.

Dozens of people expressed their gratitude to us for coming to the event and helping them learn about the persecution. Some said: "We are very glad that you have come, otherwise we still would not know about the situation." One lady turned to us and said: "It is very nice of you that you do such a thing." Another came and said: "It is just shocking! This terrible persecution has lasted for over five years. How come we came to know about it so late?"

People listened to practitioners with undisturbed attention and spent a lot of time at our booth. The practitioners thus had more time to explain the facts about the persecution and its evil nature more deeply. People learned about how the Chinese government has been trying to block all information about Falun Gong so the news can hardly get across the Chinese border, and how the Chinese regime spreads lies to defame Falun Gong. They were touched when they heard that in China, all Falun Gong materials had been confiscated, books had been burned, numerous practitioners had been imprisoned, and the only information that Chinese people receive every day are lies spread by the government-controlled media.

So when people heared that practitioners not only clarify the truth outside of China, but also try their best to clarify truth to people in China and overseas, they wished us the best and supported our efforts.

Many people compared this perseuction to Nazism and also here and there we could hear the word Holocaust. One of the visitors was an elementary school teacher. When she heard the persecution of Falun Gong, she promised that she would pass on this information. She told us that she told her students about the Holocaust and she would tell them about this too. She left with many Falun Gong materials. And there were many more people like this teacher who took posters and flyers to post them at their schools, etc.

Practitioners thanked those who helped distribute information about this persecution. They told us: It is shocking. People must get to know about it. You must work even harder!

Falun Gong practitioners in Edmonton, Canada participated in a Health Exhibit held on March 5-6, 2005 at Mayfield Commerce Center. The practitioners performed the Falun Gong exercises twice. The two days of activities achieved a good result, and many people learned the truth about Falun Gong and were eager to learn such a beautiful practice.

People passing by the practitioners' booth were attracted by a pure and peaceful atmosphere and happily accepted the Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials from practitioners. Many people would stop and ask about the nature and effects of the practice and where they could learn it. A lot of people listened to the practitioners' discussion of the persecution happening in China, and signed their names to support the practitioners' efforts in opposing the persecution. Some expressed that they would carefully read the truth-clarification materials to find out why such an irrational suppression could happen in China.

Many people from other groups that participated in the event came to ask for information and materials. Some organizers of those groups invited practitioners to come to their associations to teach the exercises, and many asked for flyers and said that they would display them at their booths for people to take.

The practitioners' exercise demonstration attracted many people. Some people learned the five sets of exercises on the spot. Many people took flyers and expressed that they would definitely learn Falun Gong.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Du Borang from Suixi County, Anhui Province Dies from Torture

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Du Borang from Suixi County, Huaibei City in Anhui Province was followed and persecuted by personnel from the 610 Office in Suixi County for his persistence in Falun Gong practice. It happened while he was visiting his relatives in Zhuhai City in 2004. The lower portion of his body became paralyzed from torture, and he died at home on February 10, 2005.

Mr. Du Borang was a retired official from the People's Bank of China, Huaibei City Branch. He had been arrested several times by 610 Office agents and by persons from the Political and Security Section in Suixi County. In 2002, he was incarcerated in Huaibei City No. 1 Detention Center, in violation of the Chinese constitution, and suffered persecution for five months. When he was released, though, the police wrote in the document that he had been incarcerated for only 15 days.

In 2004, Du Borang went to Zhuhai City to visit his relatives. Zhang Jimin and others from the Suixi County 610 Office further followed him to Zhuhai to persecute him. In the second half of 2004, right after Du Borang went back home, the lower part of his body was paralyzed. He was bed-ridden for five months and died on February 10, 2005.

Since July 20^th, 1999, Suixi County governmental authorities have rampantly arrested Falun Gong practitioners. In such a small county, more than 100 practitioners were illegally arrested. Four of them were sentenced to forced labor, nine were illegally sentenced up to eight years, all in violation of the Chinese constitution. They also persecuted practitioners by means of fines, interfering with their employment as well as subjecting them to brainwashing. They caused serious physical and mental trauma for practitioners and brought damage to a lot of families. Many practitioners' families have been broken up; several went into exile to avoid being further persecuted.

On July 7, 2001, persons in the Suixi County government put handcuffs and shackles on practitioners Yu Yizhi, Liu Chao, Zhu Pengfei, Cao, Ms. Li Yan, Ms. Qi Suling, Ms. Niu Xuefang, Ms. Chen Xueqin and many others, and paraded them on their local TV channel. They also added defaming and threatening messages to the video footage. They pronounced this as a "crackdown" against steadfast practitioners, according to the policy of the CCP Central Committee.

Criminals who participated in defaming Dafa and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners include:
Yang Wu: former county CCP committee secretary
Yan Xinhe: deputy county CCP committee secretary
Zhang Jingmin: deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, chief of the 610 Office (home phone: 86-561-6881863)
Li Shenjun: deputy chief of the 610 Office (cell phone: 86-13966158881)
Zhang Shoujian: head of the National Security Team (cell phone: 86-13966123166, home: 86-561-6077591 ext 3166)
Hou Xianjun: deputy head of the National Security Team

Elderly Practitioner Zou Yukun Beaten to Death by 610 Office Agents in Wuhan City

Elderly practitioner Zou Yukun from Wuhan City in Hubei Province, who was frequently harassed and forced to undergo brainwashing, died as a result of the persecution on September 6, 2004.

Mr. Zou Yukun, 73 years old, had a weak, ill body before practicing Falun Gong. After starting to practice Falun Gong, not only did his health recover, but his mentality also improved. Since then, he persisted in practicing Falun Gong. For a long time, he was harassed by "610 Office" agents Li Meixiang, Cheng Hanchuan, Xiao, and Peng from Fuhao Park Community on Changqing Street in Wuhan City. On every "sensitive date," these people would come to his home to try to brainwash him. Many times, Zou Yukun was forced to read articles and look at pictures that framed and slandered Falun Gong, and then write a repentance statement. When Zou Yukun would not listen or comply, the 610 office agents threatened to send him to brainwashing classes.

On September 3 and 4, 2004, 610 Office personnel harassed Zou Yukun for two days straight, forcing him to write a guarantee statement. They threatened to come every day unless he wrote these statements to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa.

On the morning of September 5, when Zou Yukun went out, the community watch informed the 610 Office. Not long afterwards, Zou Yukun was beaten to the ground by 610 Office personnel. Then on September 6, he passed away. The doctor said that his cerebrum was inflamed, and his brain suffered massive internal bleeding.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Zhumei from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia was frequently harassed and persecuted. She died in the beginning of 2005. Here is her story:

Ms. Zhang Zhumei, 43 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia. She was a former staff member of the Educational Materials Printing Factory of Tongliao City. She had been suffering from diabetes for over ten years before she practiced Falun Gong, and had spent a lot of the factory's medical allotment money on her medical treatment.

After she learned Falun Gong, her health greatly improved within just one year. After July 20^th, 1999, she went to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Gong, but was illegally arrested each time. People from her neighborhood committee came to her home to harass her many times.

As a result of constant harassment, her health deteriorated, and she died in early 2005.

Falun Gong Couple Arrested in Hebei Province, Their Teenage Son Interrogated and Tortured

Fan Wenzi is the Chairman of the Donglu Township National People's Congress in Qingyuan County, Baoding City, Hebei Province. At 9 p.m. on September 18, 2004, he brought others with him to arrest Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Xiaoli from her home in Nanwang Village. When they failed to coerce her husband, Hu Xiaole, into paying them one hundred thousand yuan, they sentenced Zhang Xiaoli to three years in a labor camp. She was sent to the Balizhuang Labor Camp in Baoding City.

At 10 p.m. on December 1, 2004, Fan Wenzi and others went to arrest Hu Xiaole. When they found that he was not home, they found his eldest son, 16-year-old Hu Shan, and took him straight out of bed and to the village government building. Fan then cruelly tortured and interrogated an adolescent, trying to get information. Hu Shan was beaten and had many injuries on his head; his face and body were also bruised.

Around 4:00 in the afternoon on December 27, 2004, Fan Wenzi went again to arrest Zhang Xiaoli's husband, Hu Xiaole. Subsequently, without any legal proceedings, Hu Xiaole was sentenced to one and a half years in a labor camp.

Zhang Xiaoli's immediate family consists of four people. She and her husband are both currently being persecuted in the Balizhuang Labor Camp in Baoding City. The eldest son, Hu Shan, though only 16, is still being detained in the county detention center (as of January 1, 2005). At home, her 12-year-old son, Hu Ze, has been left alone with no one to care for him.

It is reported that because Zhang Xiaoli has been on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention, she is being tortured with confinement in a solitary compartment.

Persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at Guangxi Women's Forced Labor Camp

According to China's labor camp laws, inmates should not be deprived of a citizen's basic rights. Freedom of speech is a well-known fundamental right granted by the Constitution, yet Falun Gong practitioners at Guangxi Women's Forced Labor Camp have been put under 24-hour surveillance. They are prohibited from talking to each other or freely using the restroom. This form of humiliation is a blatant violation of human rights. Practitioners refusing to renounce their belief face even worse abuse. They are deprived of sleep, prohibited from using the restroom, forced into overtime slave labor, held in isolation, hung up by their arms for vicious beatings, held in custody beyond the terms of forced labor sentencing, and other abusive measures. The following cases demonstrate how labor camp officials have seriously infringed upon practitioners' legal rights and have committed criminal offences while abusing their authority.

Ms. Mo Qingbo from Nanning City refused to renounce her belief. Labor camp officials ordered her to squat in the hallway all night for so-called "self-examination," and still required her to work fifteen to sixteen hours a day. If she dozed off or could not complete her quota, she was punished with a deduction of points. For each 100 points deducted, the officials extended her forced labor term by an extra day. After three months of this, they put her into an isolated cell called the "dragon palace," where high frequency noise was played at night. She was tortured like this every night for about three months. Ms. Mo appeared numb and insensitive when she was finally released from the "dragon palace," after a total of six months in the labor camp, yet she was not released for another year. She eventually suffered a nervous breakdown.

Ms. Du Jing, a graduate with an associate degree, is from Nanning City. She was also locked in the "dragon palace" for over three months. She went on a hunger strike to protest the inhumane treatment. She was brutally force-fed and prohibited from using the restroom. She passed waste involuntarily and was punished with a deduction of 300 to 500 points. She was not released from the labor camp until one year after her term ended.

Because she read Teacher's new articles and refused to renounce her belief, officials handcuffed Ms. Lin Tiemei and threw her into the "dragon palace," sealing her mouth with duct tape. They removed the tape after the skin around her mouth had festered and become infected. Thugs often beat her and even stuck a broom handle into her mouth. Ms. Lin then went on a hunger strike to protest. She was brutally force-fed and experienced further inhumane treatment.

Ms. Zhang Shuxue was formerly the head nurse of the Neurology Unit at the Minzu Medical Institute in Youjiang, Guangxi. Labor camp officials forced her to squat for 24 hours a day without interruption. They didn't allow her to use the restroom and tied her pants at the bottom so that waste could not be released to the ground. Her legs became deformed. Unable to walk, she was dragged from place to place. Her condition continued to deteriorate, but no medical treatment was granted. Instead, she continued to be hung up by her arms, beaten and cruelly tortured.

Ms. Yu Ping is from Lingshan County in Qinzhou City. Her arms were pulled backwards and tied to a bed frame. She was deprived of sleep for up to seventeen days. She can no longer see clearly, yet continues to suffer such physical abuse.

Ms. Meng Gui is from Lingshan County in Qinzhou City. Ms. Meng has been forced to participate in rigorous labor despite her heart condition. Her health has been severely damaged.

These are just a few of the many crimes being committed every day at the Guangxi Women's Forced Labor Camp.

Posting date: 3/11/2005
Original article date: 3/11/2005
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/12/26/92192.html

Falun Gong practitioner Deng Zhengrong and Others from Huaihua City, Hunan Province Are Arrested

On the morning of February 21, 2005, a Falun Dafa truth-clarification material site was raided. Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Teng Yun was arrested and two copy machines were confiscated.

On the afternoon of the same day, at around 4:00 p.m. a gang from the 610 Office, National Security Bureau and Police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Teng Zhengrong at the Audit Bureau Office and immediately searched her home and confiscated her property. They even searched a hut where wood was stored. They confiscated her computer, printer and truth-clarifying materials.

An insider said that the director of the unit, Yang Shuquan, the secretary from the Discipline Department, and the Communist Party Secretary recently received Dafa truth-clarification materials. They have secretly colluded with the National Security Bureau and the 610 Office to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. When Yang indoctrinated people with "Communist Party Advanced Understanding" in a closed study meeting, he denied knowledge of the matter. However when four to five cars drove into the Audit Bureau office to arrest practitioners, this gang of people went to the administration office first for an hour. Didn't the leader known about this?

Ms. Deng Zhengrong took the grade level test and won first place. She suffers from discrimination for her persistence in her belief and was illegally arrested for telling the truth about Falun Dafa to people. Due to fear, her husband, who knows Dafa is good, has divorced her.

On the same day, inside the Hao Cheng District Committee courtyard, Falun Gong practitioner Li's (his last name) new computer was confiscated by the plain-clothes police squad at the grocery store, and he was monitored thereafter. The house of Falun Gong practitioner Yang from Hutian Development Borough was searched, and they confiscated all the Dafa books.

Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Yi Chunxiu had appealed on behalf of Dafa, and clarified the truth to people. She was then illegally sentenced to a forced labor camp. At 9:00 a.m. on February 22, she was arrested at a materials production site and forcibly carried away by six men. A witness saw that some of them had helmets on to create the impression it was a raid on terrorists. They threatened that more people would be arrested.

The practitioners may be illegally detained in the city Number 2 Detention Center.

Practitioner Ms. Lin Chunxiang in Cheng Nan (the southern part of the city) was illegally sent to a forced labor camp after she appealed and clarified the truth. After she returned to her hometown, she was arrested in Huitong County. Details are unknown.

Furthermore, last year Ms. He Lifang, who lives in the northern part of the city, was arrested at home, and her family was blackmailed for 14,000 yuan. Ms. Li Chunrong and Ms. Yan Siuxian, who lived in the southern part of the city, were arrested while distributing flyers to people. They were illegally sent to the Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City.

Huaihua City National Security Bureau: 86-745-2350777
Deputy Director Xiang Anbao: 86-13337253255

Stabilization Bureau Deputy Director Chen Shunzhong: Male, about 40 years old 86-13787556177 (Cell), 86-745-2350777 (Office), 86-745-2353285 (Home), 86-745-2353283 (Home).

Stabilization Bureau Director: Male, around 40 years old, was a member of Hong Jiang City 610 Office. He has participated in all the persecution during the past five years, extorted large amounts of money from Falun Gong practitioners--as much as 17,000 yuan.

The pioneers who have persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in the past five years: Hao City National Security Sub-branch Brigade Chief, 610 Office director Shu Yong: 86-745-2230719 (Home), 86-13974501949 (Cell)

The Father of Shu Yong is retired from Yazuiyan Electricity Station, and his mother is retired from Yazuiyan primary school. His wife works at Huaihua City Yinhe Hotel. His brother Shu Yue is disabled and has difficulty in walking. His brother-in-law Zeng Ying is employed by a school in Huaihua City and lives at the Hongxing Road primary school.

610 Office Deputy Director Wu Shikun and Yan Chunhui: 86-13973088099 (Cell), Deputy Director He: 86-13974500557 (Cell)

Hao Cheng Police Sub-station Deputy Superintendent Jiang and another person named Zhu Xianzhong
Cheng Bei Police Station Superintendent Liu Tiejun: 86-7452763980 (Home), 86-745-2764751 (office)
Audit Bureau: 86-745-2716310
Director Yang Shunquan: 86-745-2716446 (Home)
Deputy Director Tian Bin: 86-745-2711317 (Home)
Huaihua City Number 2 Detention Center: 86-745-2380729
Deng Zhengrong's Brother: 86-13907391739 (Cell) Son: 86-13874488858 (Cell)
Zip Code: 418000

Information about the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at the Changchun Police Station and Jilin Prison

On one hand, Jiang Zemin's regime and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claim to respect human rights, while on the other hand, they are implementing a bloody persecution of the innocent and compassionate people who practice Falun Gong. They have used many kinds of tortures against Falun Gong practitioners. In the middle of March 2003, Falun Gong practitioners Liang Zhenxing, Lei Ming, Liu Chengjun, Wu Yifeng, Wang Jing, and others suffered persecution, brutal torture, and interrogation at the No.1 Department of the Changchun City Police Station in Jilin Province and in the Development Zone Criminal Police Team. The torture methods included sitting on a Tiger Bench, covering the head with plastic bags, nailing pins into fingernails, handcuffing practitioners' wrists behind their back, shocking with electronic batons, burning with screw drivers heated until red-hot on electric burners, among other cruel tortures. Once, during the freezing winter weather, they stripped off all of Liang Zhenxing's clothes, poured cold water over him and left him outdoors overnight. Liu Chengjun was later shot in the leg by the police, and he was eventually tortured to death in Jilin Prison.

2. Depriving Practitioners of the Right of Family Visits and Brutal Force-Feeding

On September 24, 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Sun Qian's family went to the No. 11 Area of Jilin Prison to see him. However, while in the visiting room, the police from the education department would not approve their visit. Sun Qian argued strongly based on reason, but he still did not get to see his family. In order to protest the police's illegal behavior, he went on a hunger strike. On September 27, the prison arranged a "special" visit. The friend who visited Sun Qian asked him to eat and to renounce Falun Gong as soon as possible. Sun Qian completely refused. Director Tong, who was watching, was very angry and immediately ended the visit. The police continuously tried to persuade and threaten Sun Qian to eat. Sun Qian did not yield, but asked for his normal right to see his family. By the afternoon of September 30, Sun Qian had become extremely weak. The police put him in a small confinement area and tied him to a bed to brutally force-feed him.

In addition, other Falun Gong practitioners, such as Liang Zhenxing's family, could not visit them, either. The excuse used by the officials was that the practitioners were being punished for "not performing well" (i.e. not renouncing Falun Gong).

At the end of 2003, in order to show that China respects human rights and to give the appearance of working to improve the administration of prisons, the Chinese government announced news laws forbidding the Judiciary Department, the police, prison guards, and all other law-enforcement personnel from interrogating people using torture, physical punishment, or other kinds of covert physical punishment. However, on December 29, 2003, in Jilin Prison, Yushu City Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Jianhua went on a hunger strike to protest being physically punished and tortured in the so-called "Education Class." Zhang Jianhua was later sent to a strict administration area, where he was tied up and stretched on a bed. His whole body was hanging in the air from the taut ropes pulling on his arms and legs. This kind of stretching is extremely painful. After force-feeding him, prisoners Guo Yumin and Ding Shaosong and others grabbed him by his clothes and rammed his body against the wooden bed boards underneath him. They even made fun of Zhang's painful moans. Around 4 p.m. the next day, Zhang Jianhua was near death; several prisoners carried him in a blanket and sent him to the hospital. They figured from their past experience that it was reasonable to let him die in the hospital. The next morning, Zhang Jianhua was confirmed dead. The prison personnel tried their best to cover up the crime and never investigated or prosecuted anyone.

Ever since Jilin Prison started detaining Falun Gong practitioners, they have persecuted many practitioners until they were severely injured. In July 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Wu Yifeng refused to write the "Four Pledges" [a form of Guarantee Statement] and other statements ordered by the guards. Mr. Wu was illegally persecuted in that prison and had been beaten up many times. When the perpetrators saw that the beatings were useless, they transferred him to the "Strict Administration" area and forcibly tied him to a bed and left his body hanging in air from the tightened straps. An ordinary person can rarely bear this torture for even half an hour. However, Wu Yifeng never yielded to the evil police and refused to renounce Falun Dafa. After 2 hours, he was in shock. The prisoner who was watching him was afraid of having to take the responsibility for this crime and urged the guards to let him down. After six months of abuse, practitioner Wu Yifeng finally came out of the Strict Administration area and was transferred to another prison.

At the beginning of June 2004, just because Falun Gong practitioner Chao Zhonghua said a few words to other practitioners, he was beaten up the next day in the workshop by Zhang Dehui, Xu Guoming, Wang Long, Feng Zhenying, and others. Three of his teeth were knocked out from the beating. Prison guard Zhao Jinbiao not only refused to punish those who beat practitioner Chao, but he also put Mr. Chao in the Strict Administration area. Practitioner Chao was released from the Strict Administration area after 3 months. In order to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, Jilin Prison organized a so-called "Education Class" to physically punish practitioners in an attempt to force them to give up practicing Falun Gong. Usually, they forced practitioners to sit for several months or even half a year. They also use other prisoners to frequently beat up and persecute practitioners. In June 2003 the Education Class was over. However, several steadfast practitioners were frequently detained in the Strict Administration area. Because of long-term physical torture, these practitioners' bodies were severely injured. Lei Ming and Sun Changde could not walk normally, until very recently. Lei Ming's leg muscles are still withered.

At the beginning of 2004, after Jilin Prison transferred away particularly firm practitioners, they started another round of persecution on the practitioners left in the prison. At the beginning of March, they gradually put dozens of practitioners in confinement to "correct" them. "Correcting" them is to bind a practitioner's arms and legs into four metal shackles on a wooden bed that could be used to stretch practitioners. This torture greatly damages one's body. The metal shackles can cut into the flesh. In the middle of March 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Yu Hongfei refused to renounce Falun Gong and was sent to confinement to be "corrected" after he started a hunger strike. After he was force-fed for over 40 days, Mr. Yu was sent to the Strict Administration area. Because of long term force-feeding, his digestive system was weak and he needed to use the toilet frequently. However, the prisoner who was watching him did not allow him to use the bathroom. As a result, he was forced to defecate in his pants three times.

1. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Yu Ming Walked Out of Forced Labor Camp for the Second Time

Mr. Yu Ming from Shenyang City, was abducted in Beijing on October 29, 2003, and sentenced to a forced labor camp. He was jailed first at the Beijing Forced Labor Camp Dispatch Center, then at Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp and Xin'an Women's Forced Labor Camp's junior brigade. In the end, he was secretly transferred to the No. 1 Forced Labor Camp in Kaiping District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province on September 14, 2004.

After about 16 months of resisting the persecution, his physical health was deteriorating. However with a strong will, he recently walked out of the forced labor camp for the second time on medical bail.

2. [Shanghai City] Five Falun Gong practitioners Abducted While Distributing Truth Clarification Materials, Four of Them Sent to Forced Labor Camps

At around noon on January 6, 2005, five Falun Gong practitioners from Xuhui District, Shanghai City, were distributing Falun Gong truth clarification materials in front of a supermarket in Minxing District when they were abducted. They were Ms. Ren Lingdi, Ms. Rong Huijun, Ms. Hu Yuefang, auntie Lu, and auntie Xu. Later, Ms. Hu Yuefang was released due to medical reasons. Ms. Ren Lingdi and Rong Huijun were sentenced to forced labor camp for 15 months. Ms. Lu and Ms. Xu were each sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp.

3. [Anshun City, Guizhou Province] Ms. Zhai Liandi, Ms. Zhai Shunmei, and Ms. Du Yongqiong Sentenced to Two Years in Forced Labor Camp for Distributing Truth Clarification Materials

Ms. Zhai Liandi, Ms. Zhai Shunmei and Ms. Du Yongqiong, from Jiuzhou Town, Anshun City, were sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp for distributing Falun Gong truth clarification materials on December 26, 2004.

Another Falun Gong practitioner, Hu Yongxiu, was abducted but not sentenced to forced labor camp due to high blood pressure. She is now detained at the No. 2 Detention Center of Anshun City.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Weiyi's home was ransacked and he was fined over 10,000 yuan before being released after several days of detention.

On the morning of February 22, 2005, Jinan City's Beiquanfu Police Station abducted Ms. Jia Jun when she was distributing video CDs with truth information about Falun Gong. Her mother, Ms. Jia Xiuying, was also abducted from her home and taken to the same police station by officers from the Licheng District Police Department.

Ms. Jia Jun was released last night due to the fact that her baby was still being breast fed. Ms. Jia Xiuying is still being held at Beiqunfu Police Station. She is older, and has heart problems and high blood pressure. It's deep winter in Northern China and her family members are very worried about her.

5. [Yueyang City, Hunan Province] Updates on Persecuted Falun Gong practitioners from Yueyang City

Mr. Xiang Chunhua is in his fifties, and is from Zhifeng Township, Miluo City. He was sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp in 2004. He is now being held at the Wangling Forced Labor Camp in You County, Zhuzhou City.

Mr. Leiqian, 25, from Cenchuan Township, Pingjiang County, was sentenced to four years in a forced labor camp in 2002 by police from Pingjiang County. He is now being held at the Wangling Forced Labor Camp in You County, Zhuzhou City.

Ms. Wu Xinmin, 40, was previously a worker at Miluo City's Mianshang Nitrogenous Fertilizer Factory. She was sentenced to four years of imprisonment in 2001. She is now being tortured at Baimalong Forced Labor Camp, Zhuzhou City.

Mr. Hu Puqi, 61, a resident of Changle Town, Miluo City, is well known for his willingness to care for the elderly. He was detained for over a month in 2002. He was released only after he paid fines totaling 1,500 yuan.

Ms. Li Renshu, 61, from the No.1 Brigade, Longping, Toudao Town, Helong City, Jilin Province, was abducted while she talked to neighbors about the truth of Falun Dafa on February 4, 2005. She is now jailed at Helong Detention Center.

Phone numbers of responsible personnel:
Jin Chengji, Associate Party Secretary of the local Political and Judiciary Committee:
86-433-4222435 (Office), 86-433-4231279 (Home)
Jiang Zhe, 610 Office: 86-13904468949 (Cell), 86-433-4221168 (Home), 86-433-4238610 (Office)
Jin Longyuan: 86-433-4233070 (Office), 86-433-4262690 (Home)
Zhang Baohua (Associate Head of the local National Security Brigade): 86-13904468610 (Cell)

7. [Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province] Details on the Abduction of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Qu Chuanlu

Mr. Qu Chuanlu, 30, lives at Ertun Village, Niujia Town, Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province. He started Falun Gong practice in 1996. On December 28, 2000, the Wuchang City 610 Office and local police department abducted, jailed, and fined him 5,000 yuan before he was released three months later. At 7:00 p.m. on September 17, 2004, while Mr. Qu was taking a break from work at Laowu Village, Pingfang District, police from the local Niujia Police Station abducted him and took him to Wuchang Detention Center. The operation was directed by the head of Niujia Town, Cao Xuefeng, and the reason was that they were afraid Mr. Qu might go to Beijing to appeal for an end of the persecution during the National Day holiday period.

8. [Neijiang City, Sichuan Province] List of Practitioners Being Imprisoned or Sentenced to Forced Labor Camps in Weiyuan County

9. [Chongqing City] Ms. Fan Defang and Ms. Yuan Suxian Abducted while Clarifying the Facts about Falun Gong in the Rural Area of Dadukou Village

Ms. Fan Defang, 70, lives in Laodong Village, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing City. Ms. Yuan Suxian, 60, lives in Minzhu Village, Jiulongpo District. Local police abducted them while they clarified the true facts about Falun Gong to the people of Dadukou Village. They are being held at Dadukou Detention Center.

10. [Chongqing City] Ms. Tan Bifang Is Sent to Jingkou Brainwashing Center for Talking to People about Falun Gong

In November, 2004, local police abducted Ms. Tan Bifang and took her to the Jingkou Brainwashing Center in Shapingba District, Chongqing City, because she talked to people about Falun Gong. She has to pay 6,000 yuan monthly for living expenses while in the brainwashing center. She has been there for three months now and has been forced to pay 18,000 yuan.

Phone numbers of responsible personnel:
Su Ning, staff of Mawang Police Station at Jiulongpo District, 85-23-68834570, 86-23-68834571

1. [Jinan City, Shandong Province] Ms. Liu Hongmei and Ms. Wang Wei Again Sentenced to Seven and Five and one-half Years in Prison, Respectively

On October 1, 2001, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Liu Hongmei, Ms. Wang Wei and Ms. Li Chengxiang were sentenced to threes years of forced labor for distributing truth-clarifying materials at Mount Tai. They were held at Jinan City's Jiangshuiquan Forced Labor Camp. Later they were transferred to the city's Liuchangshan Detention Center, where they were detained beyond their term for one and a half years. Furthermore, they were bound onto the dead person's bed for one month. (In this torture, the four limbs of the practitioner are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner is tied down at all times and must therefore be fed by someone else. Sleeping, eating, excreting and menstruating are all done on the bed. For this reason the practitioner is often stripped naked. This treatment may last from several hours up to many weeks, in which case the practitioner feels the pain of his whole body atrophying.)

In April 2003 at the city's Lixia District Court, Ms. Liu spoke out that Judge Zhu Qingzhen did not follow the law. Judge Zhu therefore issued an order forbidding her from saying anything. Ms. Wang announced in court that she would continue to practice Falun Gong.

Ms. Liu and Ms. Wang were sentenced to seven and five and one-half years in prison, respectively. They are currently being detained at Wards No. 7 and No. 1 in the Shandong Provincial Women's Prison. Since being in prison, Ms. Liu has been on a hunger strike over half a year. She is the only one who doesn't wear a prisoner's uniform.

Ms. Liu's father was a senior officer with the Weihai City's Public Prosecutor's Office. After he saw how his daughter was brutally tortured, he passed away.

Ms. Wang has an eight-month old son. Her husband is being held at Jinan City's Forced Labor Camp, so the boy is deprived of his parent's care.

2. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Mr. Liu Fuquan and Other Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Terms

According the latest information, several Falun Gong practitioners including Mr. Liu Fuquan from Tonghua City's Erdaojiang Electric Factory in Jilin Province have been secretly sentenced to eleven years in prison. Their appeals were rejected. Mr. Liu's family did not know of his sentence until he was secretly sent to the Siping Prison. When his family went to the prison to see him, the prison refused to allow the visit. Mr. Liu's wife Ms. Gong Chengmei is also a Falun Gong practitioner.

3. [Quzhou County, Hebei Province] Mr. Huang Yunzhang, His Wife and Ms. Huo Junmei Arrested

At about 3:00 a.m. on February 22, 2005, a group of officers from the No.3 Team at the Chengguan Police Station in Quzhou County's Police Department climbed over the wall and broke into practitioner Mr. Huang Yunzhang's home, without showing any documentation. After breaking the window to gain entry, they ransacked the house. They confiscated Dafa books and arrested Mr. Huang Yunzhang, his wife Shumei and a fellow practitioner Ms. Huo Junmei. They are being held at Quzhou County's Detention Center.

4. [Shandong Province] Ms. Jia Xiufang Taken to the Jinan Legal System "Education" Center

Personnel from the 610 Office in Jinan City's Licheng Police Department arrested practitioner Ms. Jia Xiufang and sent her into the city's Legal System "Education" Center at noon on February 23, 2005. She is still in detention.

Zhang Wenyuan, a policeman from the 610 Office, Jinan City's Licheng Police Department: 86-531-2878849

5. [Jilin Province] Practitioner Ms. Xue Xiuhua Held in the Tumen Detention Center for Clarifying the Truth about Falun Gong

On February 5, 2005, personnel from the Xiangshang Police Station arrested practitioner Ms. Xue Xiuhua when she was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. They also ransacked her home, confiscating Dafa books and truth clarification materials. Ms. Xue is now being held at Tumen City's Detention Center.

On around February 14, 2005, personnel from Xuzhou City's Police Department and the Security Section of the Xuzhou Warehousing and Transportation Company in the Sino Petrochemical Group arrested practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhongli from the Zoucheng Warehousing and Transportation Company. Then they ransacked his home. They took him to Xuzhou City's Police Department and it is unknown where he is detained.

7. [Yushu City, Jilin Province] Mr. Du Xishan Brutally Beaten and Sentenced to One Year of Forced Labor

Police arrested practitioners Du Xishan, Jin Baocai and Zhang Shuzhen from Hejiagou Village, Hongqi Administration Village, Yujia Township, Yushu City, Jilin Province.

On November 21, 2004, Guan Xiujun, head of the Hongqi Village Security Team conspired with Sun Shouquan and Wu Hongtao from Yujia Township's Police Station. They broke into practitioner Mr. Du Xishan's home to arrest people, using the excuse that someone reported that he was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. The police beat him with sticks and shocked him with an electric baton. Mr. Du lost consciousness, and was packed into a vehicle and sent to Yushu City's Detention Center that same day. After 20 days of detention he was sentenced to one year of forced labor. He is currently being held in Changchun City's Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp.

Others arrested that same day include Jin Baocai and Zhang Shuzhen who were sent to Yushu City's Detention Center as well.

8. [Xuchang City, Henan Province] Mr. Chen Zhanyong and His Wife, Ms. Chen Ke Arrested for Clarifying the Truth about Falun Gong

During the night on February 23, 2005, practitioners Mr. Chen Zhanyong and his wife, Ms. Chen Ke, from the Weidu District, Xuchang City, were arrested when they went out to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. Their baby was left at home.

Once Recognized for his Meritorious Military Service, Mr. Hu Jianhua is Now Imprisoned for His Belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance

Mr. Hu Jianhua, born in 1961 in Qianjiang County of Hubei Province, joined the army back in 1979. He was promoted from squad leader to company commander. He led his company to win a first class merit citation. In 1988, he was appointed as the leader of the rear-service unit of the headquarters, a position equivalent to an associate battalion commander.

A dozen years of military service left Mr. Hu with a dozen illnesses, including high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and rheumatism. As a result, he had to resign from his post. In 1993 he was transferred to a civilian workplace - the Industrial and Commercial Bureau of Qiaokou District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province.

Mr. Hu sought one doctor after another to cure his illnesses but without success. In 1995, he learned Falun Gong. Thanks to Falun Gong, Mr. Hu became a healthy person and lived a happy life once again without costing his employer a penny. In addition, he strived hard to do his job well. As a practitioner, Mr. Hu strictly followed the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," and he was always thoughtful of other people.

For example, Mr. Hu's employer equipped him with a motorcycle for him to perform his job. Since he often left home early and arrived late for the sake of his job, sometimes he had to ride the motorcycle home. Despite the fact that he used it for his job, he paid his employer for the gas he used for the trips home. His leaders and colleagues all trusted him very much and recommended him for outstanding workers' awards. Every time he received an award, he shared his prizes with everyone. Once he received an electric fan as a prize. To alleviate the poor working conditions in the hot summer in the cafeteria, he contributed the fan to his colleagues. Because he always cared about his co-workers, Mr. Hu was widely recognized as a great person.

What was less known to others was that his family lived a meager existence. His wife was severely ill, his teenage child was going to school, and he had to support his parents and brother, who lived in poor circumstances in the countryside. Even with a family of three living in a small home belonging to his in-laws, he never complained or asked for anything from his employer, which demonstrated the high moral standards of a Falun Gong practitioner.

In spite of being such a good person, the authorities persecuted him for his practice of Falun Gong and his belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." Since July 1999, they have imprisoned him in brainwashing "schools" three times and detained him three times, each time for several months. They illegally fired him from his job and stripped him of his membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The local police station searched his house three times without a warrant. All of his neighbors were outraged by the injustice.

When Mr. Hu was on his way to his workplace on November 29, 2000, a policeman stopped him. Claiming that his leader wanted to see him, the policeman attempted to trick him into going to the police station. Seeing through the fraud, Mr. Hu did not follow him. In the afternoon, however, half a dozen people came to abduct him. The authorities later sentenced him to one year of forced labor camp for his practice of Falun Gong. During his one-year imprisonment in the Hewan Labor Camp of Wuhan City, Mr. Hu was brutally persecuted, like every other practitioner there. The authorities did not allow any of his family members to visit him. They forced him to work extremely long hours and to perform excessively heavy work; they frequently beat him and abused him physically; they deliberately stopped him from sitting down, sleeping, talking to others, or buying any food. For over half a year, they dispatched other inmates to constantly watch him and follow him wherever he went, be it in the bathroom or while eating. Under both physical and mental abuse, Mr. Hu continued to show his compassion as a Falun Gong practitioner, which deeply touched the hearts of many inmates, policemen, and staff members in the forced labor camp.

After an entire year of this hell-like existence in the forced labor camp, Mr. Hu finally walked out of labor camp on December 1, 2001. After he returned to his former workplace, the authorities continued to monitor him. Seven months after his return to work, the local police station decided to arrest him again.

On July 22, 2002, Mr. Hu was forced to leave home for Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, to avoid further persecution. While he was telling other people in Guangzhou about the staged self-immolation in Tiananmen Square, the authorities arrested him once again in March 2003. During the illegal detention, the Guangzhou public security officials used cruel torture to try to extort a confession out of him, detained him for an extended period of time, and recorded false statements and refused to show them to him. In December 2003, without any evidence, the Dongshan District Court of Guangzhou City illegally sentenced Mr. Hu to seven and half years in prison. In addition, they stopped him from appealing his sentence and the extortion of his confession by torture to the higher courts.

Mr. Hu has been imprisoned in the Sihui City Prison of Guangdong Province for over ten months. Initially the authorities granted him permission to write one letter a month, so his family did receive a letter from him every month. Since December 2004, however, his family has not received any letters, and it has been over two months. Mr. Hu used to reply to his family in writing every time they sent him some money. Without hearing anything from him, his family is now very worried. Yet they are helpless, because, according to orders from top-level officials, no legal entity in China is allowed to accept any appeals from any Falun Gong practitioners or their families.

We sincerely call on every good-hearted person to extend your help to stop the ongoing persecution of Mr. Hu Jianhua by the Chinese authorities.

Mr. Shi Zuosheng Tortured to the Brink of Death and His Wife Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

Falun Gong practitioner Shi Zuosheng from Yisheng Village, Qingling Township, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, is critically ill due to torture. His wife was sentenced to six years in prison and is now suffering from torture in the Harbin Women's Prison.

Mr. Shi began to practice Falun Gong in 1996. Because of the relentless harassment from local officials, he was forced to leave his home in 2001. On November 9, 2004, while clarifying the facts about the persecution in Harbin City, he was arrested. He is currently imprisoned in the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp. His wife Zhang Shufen was arrested at Zhoujia Township, Shuangcheng City on April 19, 2001 for practicing Falun Gong. Later, she was sentenced to six years in prison. She is currently imprisoned at the Harbin Women's Prison. Their youngest son is now homeless.

Below is a letter that was sent out by Ms. Zhang Shufen from Harbin Women's Prison:

My name is Zhang Shufen. I was illegally sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2002 and I am imprisoned in the second team of the Harbin Women's Prison. Here I have experienced suffering and persecution. The prison police are extremely violent. They frequently hang us up by our wrists and place us in solitary confinement. What we eat is watered down rice gruel twice each day. Falun Gong practitioners are often handcuffed to a ring on the prison grounds. They are not allowed to sleep and are not covered with a blanket in cold weather. They are verbally abused and beaten all day. We are watched around the clock and not allowed to practice our exercises. If someone does the exercises, the guards incite the criminals to beat and threaten Falun Gong practitioners.

On March 10, 2003, I was hung by my wrists in a prison room from the top bunk of a bed. My toes just barely touched the ground. There were 14 other fellow practitioners suffering from this at the same time. The heads of the second team, Cui Hongmei and Xia Fengying, ordered the torture, and the criminals, instigated by policeman Zhou Ying, hung us up. Some fellow practitioners were hung until they lost consciousness and the handcuffs had cut into their flesh. On May 15, 2003, I was handcuffed with my hands behind my back for more than 20 hours. (1)

Recently, news surfaced that Mr. Shi is now terribly thin because of the persecution. He cannot work and his life is in great danger. His family members strongly request that he be released. We especially send out this news to ask for help to rescue him as soon as possible.

Related telephone numbers (Note: for phone numbers, dial country code + area code before all numbers. For cell phone numbers, dial country code before the numbers. Country code: 86, area code: 451)

Bai Shenggang, the chief of Qingling Township local police station: 53240616 (Office) 53115387 (Home) 13845018916 (Cell)

All teams in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in Harbin:

The first group: The current chief Yang Jintang, instructor Yang Yu, and former chief Li Jinhua who currently is vice chief of the forced labor camp: 820370101

The second group: Chief You Shiqiang, and deputy team chief Li Changchun: 82037102

The fourth group: Chief Hao Wei, and instructor Zhang Bin: 82037104

The fifth group: Chief Zhao Shuang: 82037105

Harbin Women's Prison address: 387 Xuefu Road, Nangang District, Harbin City

Above are the facts on the persecution that I have suffered here. I hope fellow practitioners can post it on the Internet to expose the evil that is persecuting us.

Related contact information:

The chief of Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Jail, Wang Xing: 86359454

Vice-chief, Chu Shuhua: 86359322

Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Jail address: 389 Xuefu Road, Nangang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province 150069

(The switchboard: After calling 86684001, or 86668488, then say the name or the position of the person you want to talk to.)

Note:

(1) This involves one arm bent over the shoulder, the other bent under the small of the back. Both wrists are drawn to the middle of the back, causing extreme pain.

Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Wuyi Township of Yitong County, Jilin Province

Since July 1999, police from Yitong County's police department and local police stations of Wuyi Township have inhumanly persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. They have broken into practitioners' homes without a search warrant, arrested and abused them viciously, and taken them to detention centers and forced labor camps. They have extorted large amounts of money from practitioners and their family members. Some practitioners have been forced to become homeless to avoid further persecution. Many of them have to leave behind their elderly parents and young children. Whenever children see police from local police stations or police department arriving at their home, they become terribly frightened and begin to cry. We have outlined below, albeit incomplete, a persecution record for Wuyi Township of Yitong County.

In late July 1999, the police station of Wuyi Township unlawfully detained Falun Gong practitioners who had appealed to end the persecution of Falun Gong in Beijing, including Mr. Tian Junlong, Mr. Jiang Weibin, Mr. Liu Zhu, Ms. Liu Xuemin, Ms. Liu Huimin, Mr. Gao Yutian, Mr. Liu Qing and others. Lu Chen, the former head of the Wuyi Township Police Station, has extorted 1,000 yuan in illegal fines from each of those named above. Liu, the secretary of the local village Communist Party Committee, also extorted 2,000 yuan as a so-called fine from all those practitioners.

Mr. Tian Junlong went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong twice. During his detention, Huang Naiquan, the former chief of the Political Security Section of Yitong County Police Department, extorted money from Tian's family members and threatened that unless they paid, Tian would be sent to a forced labor camp. Although the family lived in poverty, family members were able to borrow 500 yuan, which they gave to Huang Naiquan. Tian Junlong was persecuted to death.

Practitioners who did not appeal in Beijing also suffered persecution. Ms. Bao Yanchen, Ms. Gao Yufen, Mr. Liu Tiemin, and others were arrested at their homes and taken to detention centers.

At the end of 2000, nine local practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for justice. They were arrested and brought back by police from the Wuyi Township Police Station, who confiscated all the money in their possession. After being detained in a detention center for a short time, all of them were sentenced to serve in a forced labor camp. Mr. Gao Yutian, Mr. Jiang Weibin, and Ms. Song Shulan were sentenced to 3 years in a labor camp. Ms. Bao Yanchen was given a 2-year labor camp sentence and Mr. Liu Zhu, Ms. Liu Xuemin, Mr. Tian Junqing, Mr. Tian Junlong and Ms. Xue Guirong received a one-year labor camp sentence.

In the labor camp, Mr. Jiang Weibin was tortured and seriously injured. After he returned home, he was bedridden and required constant care. Yet, Wuyi Township police frequently harassed him and his family members. They tried to take him back to the labor camp.

At the end of 2000, the police from the Wuyi Township Police Station and Yitong County Police Department arrested practitioners Ms. Wu Xianli, Ms. Xue Guirong, Ms. Du Yanhua, and Ms. Song Shuxiang and took them to a detention center. As a result of the arrests of both parents, some children were left behind at home alone. Police officer Zhang, who is the head of the Wuyi Township police station, even harassed and threatened these children, including two 7-year-old children who are suffering at home without care.

In late February 2001, police from the local police station and police department arrested all of the practitioners who were still at home and took them to the Yitong Communist Party School for brainwashing. They tried to force them to renounce their belief in Falun Gong. They also extorted money from practitioners.

One night in February 2002, policeman Huang Naiquan from the Political Security Section of the local police department and Wuyi Township police broke into the homes of practitioners and arrested them. Mr. Tian Junlong and Ms. Liu Xuemin were arrested and taken to a detention center that night. Both of them were sentenced to 3 years in a forced labor camp. Tian Junlong was tortured to death in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun, Jilin Province. Liu Xuemin is still held in a labor camp.

Mr. Tian Junlong, 41 years old, was a farmer in Wuyi Township. In 2002, he was arrested and taken to a detention center. He suffered brutal torture and beatings. The bridge of his nose was broken and police burned his chest with cigarettes. He was then sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Tian was brutally tortured in the labor camp. He was seriously injured from the torture, and therefore, the labor camp asked Tian's family members to take him home. He died on September 16, 2003. To ascertain that Tian had died, the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp sent people to his home. Tian's father suffered deep mental anguish after his son's death and died soon after Tian's death.

Ms. Li Aiying, 48 years old, was employed by the Yidan Forest Farm in Yitong County. Early in the morning on December 4, 2003, the police broke into her home to arrest her. Li Aiying tried to escape through the window. She tied a few bed sheets into a rope and attempted to climb from her upper window to the ground. Tragically, she slipped and fell to the ground and died.

Mr. Wang Taimin, a farmer of Wuyi Township, was arrested and taken to the local police department at the end of September 2001. He suffered brutal torture during interrogation. His entire body was covered with bruises and cuts. Within a few days, after being sent to a detention center, he could neither lay down, sit, turn over or stand. The police put a plastic bag over his head and almost suffocated him. Mr. Wang Taimin was later sentenced to a 4-year prison term.

Mr. Wu Keli was an employee of the Technology Supervision Bureau of Yitong County. One day in the spring of 2002, Zhang Qi, the deputy chief of the local police department asked Mr. Wu to come to his office to discuss some matters. What actually happened was that Mr. Wu Keli was interrogated through torture. He was forced to sit on the Tiger Bench for more than 20 hours. At the same time he had to listen to a loud speaker, placed close to his ear, that continuously broadcasted, "Wu Keli confesses his guilt." He is still being detained, even though he no longer can take care of his daily needs. He had suffered inhuman physical and mental torture.

Mr. Zhao Jingsong, about 75 years old, was a retired senior staff member of a local water company. Because he lived by the Falun Gong principles, which taught him how to be a good person, he was sentenced to a 3-year prison term. He is still being held in prison.

Ms. Chen Yuxia was an employee of the Kaoshan Town Grain Supply Center. In September 2002, local police arrested her. Police officer Ma Gang of the Political Security Section and other policemen beat Chen Yuxia cruelly. Ma Gang even beat her with a solid wooden board. She vomited blood, and her body was covered with bruises and cuts. They also extorted 10,000 yuan from her. On December 4, 2003, the police arrested Chen Yuxia and her mother again at their home. They both suffered inhuman torture during interrogation. Her mother was released after Chen's brother paid the police a large amount of money. Chen Yuxia is still being held in a detention center.

Mr. Liu Wen, a staff member of a rubber factory, was arrested in September 2002. After being tortured during interrogation, he was sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. He is still being held there.

Ms. Zhao Fenglan was a farmer from Ma'anshan. One day at the end of August 2003, the police broke into her home while she was taking a bath. The police took her to the local police department without allowing her to get dressed properly. After brutally beating her, they took her in a police car to a detention center, and on the way to the detention center, a few of the policemen sat on top of her. Fifteen days later they sent her to a forced labor camp, which refused to accept her because her body was covered with bruises and cuts. The local police department still did not release her. They finally set her free, but not before they had extorted 1,000 yuan from her family members. On her return home, the police continued to harass her and her family members. To avoid further persecution, she became homeless, leaving her two children at home alone with no adult supervision.

Mr. Jiang Lizhi was a doctor who owned a private clinic. The police broke into his home to arrest him, but he was not home at the time. Then during the sensitive dates of the National Congress meetings, the police found and arrested his fiancée, and they sent her to a forced labor camp. Some time later they arrested Jiang Lizhi at his apartment.

Ms. Yuan Wenhui was a staff member of the Yitong County Land Station. The police have broken into her home twice. They stole her birthday CD and arrested her husband Li Guanghua, who is not a Falun Gong practitioner. They detained him for 5 days. Then, the police arrested her son Li Zhibiao and detained him for 15 days. In February 2003, an explosion occurred in the Yitong County's Appeals Office. They already had arrested and detained Yuan Wenhui and her son, yet they went to Yuan's home. Only her husband Li Guanghua was home. Although the police knew that he was not a practitioner and was an honest and good-natured person, they ransacked their home, confiscated their personal property and took Li Guanghua to the local police department, where he was interrogated about the explosion until past midnight. They did not release him until he passed a lie detector test.

Mr. Li Zhongye was a staff member in a flourmill. In September 2001, the police arrested him and tortured him during interrogations. They tied him on the Tiger Bench. They beat his chest until he was seriously injured. They released him after his family members had paid a large amount of money. Li Zhongye is still unable to work because his health had deteriorated and because of injuries he suffered during torture.

Mr. Dong Weixing worked in an advanced training school for teachers. In spring 2002, he was arrested, and the police tortured him during interrogation. The police took off all his clothes, except his underwear, and tied him to an Iron Chair. Then the police opened all the windows and doors during a chilly winter day and poured cold water on him for 3 hours. Afterwards, he was sent to a forced labor camp.

Mr. Wang Jinbo was a staff member of the local Construction Bank. In August 2002, the police arrested him at his office and took him to the State Security Section of the local police department. Policemen Li Xiaodong, Ma Gang, Liu and others tortured him during interrogation. They used the torture method of "Tying the Ropes" (1) on Mr. Wang seven times. He was then sent to a forced labor camp.

Mr. Wang Jizhong was a resident of Yitong Town. In spring of 2002, he was arrested and taken to the local police department. The police brutally beat his face and head, and his face became very swollen. He was then sent to a forced labor camp. He was seriously injured both physically and mentally.

Mr. Li Hailin worked in the Xinjia Grain Supply Center. In spring 2002, he was arrested and taken to the local police department, where he suffered cruel torture. He was tortured with the "Tiger Bench" for over 40 hours. Then, he was sent to a forced labor camp.

Mr. Liu Cai and Mr. Liu Jingfeng were employed at a grain distribution station. The police broke into their homes often, harassed their families, ransacked their homes and confiscated much of their personal belongings. Therefore, they had to leave their home and rent a place somewhere else. The police continued to come to their home and harass their elderly parents and children.

Mr. Li Chongwei worked at the Ma'anshan Grain Depot. In 2003, during the sensitive dates of the National Congress meetings, police arrested him. After extorting 35,000 yuan from his family members, they released him. Li's family members had to borrow the money. A retired policeman, Sun Xishan, continued to harass him because Sun was not a part of the bribe that the police had extorted from Li's family. As a result, Li Chongwei was arrested again on December 4, 2003. His whereabouts are currently unknown.

One day before the meeting of the 16th Chinese National Congress was to be held, the police broke into Ms. Chen Xiuqin's home and took her to a detention center on a stretcher. Ms. Chen was only wearing her underclothes.

Good will be rewarded with good and evil met with evil. We hereby warn policemen who are the Jiang regime's henchmen of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners: "You must stop your evil doings immediately. You must save your future through repentance and righteous actions."

(1) Tying the Ropes - The police tie up the practitioner with a thin rope, circle the rope around his neck, and tie his hands behind his back. Then the police use all the force they can muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes tighter and tighter around the body of the practitioner, and makes it more and more difficult for him to breathe. The pain is so intense that the practitioner sometimes loses control of his bladder. There are instances when the rope was tightened enough to break a practitioner's arm.

How Lu Zhenshan and Others at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp Killed Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Hong

Before her death, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Hong asked fellow practitioners to expose the crimes that the police committed against her.

1. Lu Zhenshan, male, Director, Harbin Wanjia Forced Labor Camp, Heilongjiang Province.

2. Zhao Yuqing, male, team leader, Women's Intensive Training Team at Wanjia Forced Labor Camp; former Security Section staff member at Wanjia Forced Labor Camp.

3. Yao Fuchang; male, section chief, Women's Intensive Training Team, Wanjia Forced Labor Camp; former Management Section staff member at Wanjia Forced Labor Camp.

· Investigate everyone responsible for Ms. Zhang Hong's death and punish them according to the law.

· Provide compensation to the victim's family for economic loss and mental trauma.

The victim, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Hong, female, 31, lived near the Botanic Garden in the Dongli District, Harbin City. She was a quality inspection technician at Harbin's Number Four Hospital. From October 1999 to August 2001, after her first arrest she was detained in Wanjia Forced Labor Camp and was later released. After her release, she went to the Number Four Hospital several times, inquiring about being rehired and also being paid her suspended back wages. The hospital did not respond to her request until May 2002, when they started to pay her 200 Yuan per month. After strong requests from her and her family, she was finally allowed to work at the hospital again, but they assigned her a lesser job - to escort patients to the doctor's office.

On May 8, 2004, when Ms. Zhang was writing words to clarify the facts about Falun Gong on the outer wall of the Harbin Dongfeng Prison, a prison guard reported her to the local police. That night around 11:00 p.m., policemen Zhang Guangming and Wu Jinlong from the Daowai District Dongfeng Police Station arrested her and sent her to the city's No. 2 Detention Center. In early June 2004, Ms. Zhang was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor and sent to the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp. Wanjia refused to accept her because she did not pass the physical exam. On July 22, the police again sent her to Wanjia and managed to get her assigned to the Intensive Training Team.

On the morning of July 22, 2004, Ms. Zhang and fellow practitioners Ms. Di Lihua and a third woman were sent to Wanjia 's Intensive Training Team. Strangely enough, four men managed this women's team. Because Ms. Zhang and Ms. Di refused to write the Three Statements, the Guarantee Statement, Repentance Statement and Break-Up Statement, the police forced them to squat for a long period of time. They forbade Ms. Zhang from having lunch at the cafeteria. A fellow practitioner later brought her something to eat. After lunch, a camp guard and training team head Zhang Guiyun chained Ms. Zhang to a bed. She had to keep her arms stretched out in front of her and stand there for a full night.

On July 23, the guard said that Ms. Zhang Hong had "heart disease," so they wanted to inject her with some medicine. At the same time they also continued to demand that she and the others write the Three Statements. Ms. Zhang refused to take the injection, so the guards pushed her down onto an un-cushioned wooden bed, handcuffed her arms to the headboard and tied her feet to the footboard. They forcibly injected her with an unknown drug. Ms. Zhang Hong had a strong reaction. She felt both pain and humiliation; she also lost control of her bladder.

They left Ms. Zhang handcuffed and tied up like that for seven days and nights, from July 23 to 30. She was forbidden to use the toilet, compelling her to relieve her bowels and bladder on the wooden bed. The police left her in a windy location, with her lower body naked and a sleeveless undergarment on top. They did not allow her any extra clothing or even a blanket. One chilly night, a camp inmate on duty gave Ms. Zhang and Ms. Di extra clothing since they had requested them. The next day, policewoman Wu Baoyun angrily scolded the inmate.

On July 24, Ms. Zhang started a hunger strike to protest this inhumane abuse. Two days later, on July 26, the police started to force-feed her. They fed her with very salty corn meal soup. This kind of feeding severely damaged the practitioner's health. The team leaders Zhao Yuqing and Yao Fuchang told everyone not to give Zhang Hong water to drink, and toilet breaks were again denied.

Ms. Zhang Hong's feet turned blue after being tied up for a long time without adequate circulation. On July 29, the force-feeding torture caused severe bleeding, and a towel was soaked with her blood (the bloody towel was seen in the toilet). On July 30, section Chief Yao rinsed the intravenous drip bottle with tap water before using it on Ms. Zhang. Later, they intensified the torture by force-feeding her three times a day. The force-feeding team leader Zhang Guiyun and others pulled Ms. Zhang's hair and pinned her head to the bed. After verbal abuse and humiliation, they inserted a tube into her stomach through her nose.

Even while suffering from this tremendous pain, Ms. Zhang still tried to reason with the police. In the middle of one torture, she protested loudly about the mistreatment. Under police supervision, criminal inmates Zhang Guiyun, Chen Lingling and Sun Huijun performed the force-feeding on her. Once, when Ms. Zhang passed out during the torture, the camp guard Li Changjie lied to his team leader Zhao Yuqing, saying that Ms. Zhang was faking. Zhao Yuqing told Li Changjie to punish her with electric shocks after she regained consciousness.

On the afternoon of July 30, the police tied Ms. Zhang to a metal chair. Her head was covered with white bandage tapes, and her hands were cuffed behind her back. She had lost much weight, and her legs and feet were badly swollen.

Around 8:00 a.m. on July 31, people heard a loud cry from Ms. Zhang Hong, "I don't want to die. I want to go home. My house is at... in the Dongli district."

Around 1:00 p.m. on July 31 two policemen wearing protective facemasks arrived. They ordered four inmates to carry Zhang Hong away to the 211 Military Hospital. At 3:20 p.m., Zhang Hong's family received a notification that she had died at 2:00 p.m. of a "heart attack" in the 211 Hospital. Later police Zhao Yuqing claimed that Ms. Zhang had died from kidney failure induced by a heart attack. According to a family member, Ms. Zhang never had any history of heart disease.

During the visitation, family members discovered that her eyes and mouth were wide open. She had lost almost forty pounds, and her own waste was found in her pants. Ms. Zhang's mother asked the police why her daughter's mouth was full of blood if she died of a heart attack. A prison doctor said that he could not explain it. Family members asked to photograph and videotape her disfigured corpse. The police refused and attempted to force them to cremate the corpse right away. The family refused. They asked the police to follow legal procedures and conduct an autopsy. On August 26, after repeated threats and pressure from the police, Zhang Hong's two brothers, their wives and other family members finally agreed to the cremation. More than 40 police officers were on site to monitor the cremation. Ms. Zhang's former employer paid 1,200 Yuan for the cremation, and her family paid 500 Yuan. All of the money went into the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp's account.

On August 5, in order to cover up their crime, the police changed the sign of the room where Ms. Zhang was tortured from "Intensive Training Class of Strict Monitoring Class " to "Medical Room." They also brought in some oxygen tanks and other medical supplies to make the room look legitimate. The police officers in the intensive training team all looked very nervous, fearing that the truth might leak out.

Lu Zhenshan, the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp Director, has been supporting the police brutality and even the murdering of Falun Gong practitioners. Between the summer of 2002 and the fall of 2003, Lu Zhenshan moved his office near the Intensive Training Team so that he could personally supervise the abuse, torment and torture of the practitioners. During his tenure, nearly one hundred practitioners were permanently injured, disabled, mentally traumatized or killed. Perpetrator Lu once said, "Go ahead and hate me, they (the police officers) are only following my orders."

Policemen Zhao Yuqing, Yao Fuchang and others have worked full time in the women's team for over two years. This is a direct violation of the rule that "Policemen cannot manage women inmates," a prison rule set up by China's Ministry of Justice.

Policeman Zhao Yuqing once told practitioners who refused to write the "Three Statements," "Lets not make a fuss about it; the government has the privilege to be unreasonable, because you practitioners cannot win a debate. They told you to shut up and squat. They forced you to write 'Three Statements.' The Communist Party's job is to twist the facts 180 degrees. We are only tools, because we get paid by the Communist Party."

According to provisions in China's Constitution, Criminal Law, Police Law and relevant international laws, Director Lu Zhenshan, policemen Zhao Yuqing and Yao Fuchang's conduct in torturing Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Hong to death is clearly illegal. They violated statutes 50, 146, 254 and 297 of the Criminal Law; statute 49, No.2 of the Constitution and statute 13 of Women's Rights under the Protection of Law. They committed the crimes of "Revenge and Framing" and "Abuse of Power."

They used all sorts of ruthless torture against Falun Gong practitioners, including tying up with ropes while beating, hanging up and beating, confining people in cold and windy places, cold showers in winter, intimidation, and murder. Then they forced the families to have the victim's bodies cremated to eliminate the evidence. These torture methods have severely harmed the practitioners. They have dark marks on their wrists, deep scars, blisters on their faces, open sores, disfigured bodies, muscular atrophy and skin discoloration. Quite a few victims committed suicide because they could not handle to continued torture. Some were mentally traumatized and went insane. The camp enforcers violated statutes 15, 189, and 248 of the Criminal Law; statute 22 of the Police Law, and # 38 of the Constitution. They also violated item 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and committed the crime of "Abusing Prisoners."

They demanded that Falun Gong practitioners write the "Three Statements" as soon as they arrived at the labor camp. Those who refused were subjected to severe and violent torture: hanging up, electric baton shocks, long time sitting on a metal chair or squatting, punches and kicks, sleep deprivation, denial of drinking water and toilet use, denial of the right to appeal or access to law books, and long time bombardment with slandering videos. They were also forced to recite the "Pledge of Loyalty," "Camp Rules," and "Five Forbids." The camp officials forced people to memorize and recite this nonsense, as if they were legal documents. They arbitrarily extended terms, insulted people's dignity, made illegal fines, and demanded bribes.

Their outright disregard of the law was based on Jiang Zemin's terrorist policy against Falun Gong. Jiang hated Falun Gong so much that he gave the order to "ruin their reputation; bankrupt them financially; destroy them physically." Jiang Zemin and the Wanjia police violated the following laws: Statutes 36, 37 and 41 of China's Constitution; statutes 17, 232, 234, 251, 397 and 399 of the Criminal Law; items 9 and 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They committed the crime of "Illegally depriving citizens of their freedom of religion and belief." They did severe damage to the dignity and image of China and caused great harm to the practitioners and their families, who are good, law-abiding citizens.

Recently, the Supreme People's Procuratorate launched a campaign to "Investigate the five acts of criminal conduct among national civil servants."

To the Supreme People's Procuratorate officials: we have provided you with the above-listed evidence of crimes committed in the Harbin City's Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in the hope that you can use it in further investigations. You must bring the criminals to justice, defend the law and restore the practitioners' reputations.

Murderers must be punished for their killings, and debtors must return the money they owe. These are universal principles. The perpetrators must be brought to justice!

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Hong's home phone: 86-451-82107266
Persons responsible for Ms. Zhang Hong's death:
Lu Zhenshan, Director, 86-13903602280(Cell); 86-451-84282528(Home)
Fang Jun, Political Head:
Wanjia Forced Labor Camp Operators: 86-451-84101454, 86-451-84101455, 86-451-84101573, 86-451-84101509
Intensive Training Team (13^th) extension: 3473
Zhao Yuqing (male), team head
Yang Guohong (female), deputy team head
Na Dongbo (female), deputy team head
Wu Hongxun (male), section chief
Li Xiaojie (male), section chief
Yao Fuchang (male), section chief, 86-451-86677741
Wu Baoyun (female), policewoman
Li Chunxia (female), policewoman
Li Changjie (female), policewoman
Criminal inmates who monitored Zhang Hong: Zhang Guiyun, Chen Lingling and Liu Huijun

Mr. Wang Zhenfang was 55 years old. He was a farmer who lived in Tianjia Village, Handian Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. After he began to practice Falun Gong, Mr. Wang enjoyed good health, but he stopped practicing because of the pressure he was placed under. He died in early 2003.

Mr. Wang Zhenfang began to practice Falun Gong in March 1998. Before that, he suffered from paralysis on one side of the body. His illness disappeared after practicing Falun Gong. He also gave up smoking and drinking and was able to do any kind of work. Around July 20, 1999, when Jiang's regime began to persecute Falun Gong, some people from the village party committee harassed him. They forced him to write the "guarantee statements," hand over his Falun Gong books, and attend a brainwashing class. Mr. Wang caved in under the pressure and gave up practice. On September 1, 2001, he suffered a relapse of his old illnesses. He passed away on March 20, 2003.

Mr. Wang Zhenfang's son Wang Liqiang is 16 years old. He is currently a 9^th grade student in Handian Middle School. When his father died, he was only 14. Mr. Wang Zhenfang's wife Chen Jingfang is also a practitioner. She farmed the 20 Mu of land together with her three daughters and one son. Since Mr. Wang Zhenfang owed more than 10,000 yuan for medical expenses, his family is having a hard time making ends meet.

Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Dailian from Shandong Province Died Because of Pressure from Local Officials

Not long ago, a tragedy occurred in Beishiwu Village, Duozhuang Town, Mengyin County, Shandong Province. An elderly woman died as a result of pressure from local officials, who completely ignored the law. This case has shocked and angered the local residents.

The person who died was Ms. Zhang Dailian, a gentle woman from a mountain village. Before practicing Falun Gong, both Ms. Zhang and her daughter-in-law Yu Lanying had been very weak and suffered from many illnesses. Only after they practiced Falun Gong did their illnesses start to get cured. After the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, they knew that practicing Falun Gong was good for one's health and that the practice of Falun Gong was different from the slander in the government propaganda. They did not give up practicing Falun Gong. When they were not busy with their farm work, they would use their free time to practice Falun Gong. They were simple, honest, and kind, and all the villagers who knew them can testify in this regard.

One day in May, Ms. Zhang's daughter-in-law Yu Lanying went out to distribute several Falun Gong truth-clarification flyers and was arrested by the police from the local police station. After she was arrested, Ms. Yu endured all kinds of torture. Her chest became black and blue from being beaten with a leather shoe. Her legs were also covered with wounds. After Yu Lanying escaped from the police station, she became disoriented due to the mental trauma she experienced in detention. After Ms. Yu got back home, she could only stay in bed and could not take care of herself.

Before her arrest, the local police station had already ransacked her home. Seeing that her daughter-in-law had been tortured to such a terrible condition and that her family members reprimanded her although she was not at fault, Zhang Dailian could not take such a sudden and heavy blow. She ingested insecticide and died. A good family was torn apart. [Editor's note: Falun Gong forbids suicide. We hope that Falun Gong practitioners can follow Master's requirements and cherish their own valuable lives. Zhang Dailian's death was caused by the lawless officials' persecution, and the perpetuators should be held accountable.]

Just one day before Zhang Dailian's funeral was to be held, the local police station dispatched two police vehicles and over a dozen policemen to Yu Lanying's home. The police took Yu Lanying away, even though she still could not get out of bed or take care of herself. Yu Lanying's family members followed the police to the bridge by the village, where the local residents witnessed this scene:

Seventy-year old Chen Ruiyun, Yu Lanying's father-in-law, knelt in front of the local Police Station Chief Lu, begging him to allow them to finish the funeral before taking away his daughter-in-law. Lu refused the request. Yu Lanying's husband went up and asked, "You have already made her mentally disoriented, why do you still want to arrest her?" Lu claimed, "She has been at home for several days. You did not report her to the authorities, so you are also responsible." In the end, Ms. Yu's husband was also taken away. People witnessing the scene were enraged and started to denounce the police, "What is the big deal for her to just give out several flyers? There is nothing wrong with the contents written on the flyers. It seems that what the flyers have mentioned about police killing so many innocent people is indeed true."

Practitioners from Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, Suffer Inhuman Persecution

Ever since the Jiang Zemin regime started the brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners, it has employed the cruelest, most deceitful methods to persecute and deceive practitioners into quitting Falun Gong. The number of persecution cases is unprecedented, and the irrefutable evidence gathers daily. The practitioners from Meizhou City have suffered just as the practitioners in other areas in China. Below are some of the atrocities they have encountered.

These cases, collected with much difficulty and at the risk of many people, will become evidence for the Global Coalition to Bring Jiang to Justice.

Mr. Xie Hanzhu, age 40, was from Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. He was working for the Office of Public Affairs. Because of his steadfast practice of Falun Gong, he was expelled from the Communist Party, dismissed from work, and sentenced to detention at the former Section One of Group Five in Sanshui Labor Camp, where he has been since December 1999.

"Education for the new recruits": When he first came to the Fifth Group, Mr. Xie was welcomed with a savage beating. The guards beat his chest and kicked his head. He was in excruciating pain and had trouble breathing after the beating. He could not lie on his back or speak without experiencing terrible pain. Getting in and out of bed became one of his most painful tasks.

Forced labor for over 12 hours daily: Mr. Xie and others were frequently forced to work overnight in order to finish an assignment. If anyone was unable to finish an assignment, the guards would shock him or her with an electric baton or strike the person with a whip made of metal and covered with rubber. In order to cause maximum pain, the guards would bind two whips together, each the thickness of a finger. Just one lashing left black raised marks on their backs, and their backs were covered with scars.

No showers. There were 500 people in the Fifth Group and only 12 water faucets. In addition, water only runs for one and a half hours every night. Most do not get a chance to take a shower. When they were forced morning and night to perform military training, they had no time to take a shower. They were still forced to perform 10-12 hours of labor during the day. At one time, Mr. Xie was unable to take a shower for three months. Because of the dreadful hygiene practices in the labor camp, everybody had lice and dermatitis.

Because Mr. Xie clarified the truth about Falun Gong, a guard ordered several inmates to drag him to the back of the public bathroom. They pushed him against the wall and started beating his chest until he was unable to breathe. They then dragged him to the opening of the sewer pipe and forced him to breathe the stench for 10 minutes.

Prolonged shocks with electric batons. The guards used two high voltage electric batons to shock Mr. Xie's entire body. They shocked the most sensitive areas, such as the ears, neck, nipples, armpits and soles of the foot. They forced the baton into his mouth and shocked him for an hour at a time. There were blisters all over his body after the torture.

Since the electric shock could not bend Mr. Xie's will, a policeman pushed him to the ground face down and, with his leather boots, viciously stomped on Mr. Xie's back. This policeman also grabbed Mr. Xie's hair and struck his head against the floor. After this savage beating, Mr. Xie became so dizzy that he was unable to keep his balance.

Cold showers in freezing weather. The police ordered inmates to pour cold water over Mr. Xie for over half an hour in freezing weather, which made him shiver and turned his lips purple.

Sleep and rest deprivation. If he was not forced to work all night, after work ended at around 11 p.m., Mr. Xie was forced to "study" Marxism philosophy and write "reading notes." He was not allowed to rest until he finished the notes. Sometimes, the police would use all kinds of ways to keep him awake. One policeman kept talking to him the first part of the night, and another the rest of the night. He was still forced to work all day the next day. If he fell asleep the next day, the guards would either kick him very hard or whip his whole body. After two years of persecution, Mr. Xie, formerly a vigorous and energetic young man, had become a skinny, boney, gray-haired man, with a wane and sallow complexion. His family members could not recognize him.

In July 2000, the police ordered five inmates to pull his body in opposite directions, which is similar to an ancient Chinese torture called "five horses tearing apart the body." They forced Mr. Xie to sit in front of a pole with two inmates stretching his arms with all their strength and two others stretched and pulled his legs outward, causing excruciating pain. His arms and legs were bruised and swollen for days. He could not bend over or squat down. He was unable to sleep or go to the bathroom due to the pain.

Those responsible for the persecution include Deputy Captain Jiang and police officers Lei Shubao and Zhang Guansheng.

In September 2000, Mr. Xie was sent to the Second Section in the Second Group for continued persecution. The guards forced him to work for over 12 hours a day to endure military training for long periods of time, and to remain in a squatting position for several days and nights. He was not allowed to talk or contact anyone. He was forced to stand under the baking sun during the hottest part of the day, everyday, for as long as one month. Officers deprived him of sleep and forced him to get up everyday at 5:30 a.m. and work until 10 p.m. They also made him read articles that slandered Falun Gong and Teacher until past midnight.

After two years in the Sanshui Labor Camp, the Meixian 610 Office took him to different places where the abuse continued, such as the Meixian Detention Center, the Meizhou City Police School, and brainwashing classes in Meixian in the Meijiang District of Meizhou City. Mr. Xie was half starved to death and kept in solitary confinement most of the time.

In December 2002, Mr. Xie Hanzhu and two other practitioners Xia Xianqiang and Zhou Xigui started a hunger strike to take a stand against the abuse and excessive detention that they were forced to endure. The police and guards savagely force-fed them. They knocked out Xia Xianqiang's front teeth and used a tube-shaped bamboo, which held the food at one end and a sharpened point at the other end to poke and jab his mouth, throat, and esophagus. This brutal torture caused multiple lesions in his mouth and blood oozed everywhere, causing severe inflammation. After half a month of this savage force-feeding, Xia Xianqiang was in a coma. The 610 Office guards did not want him to die in the detention center, so they released him on a stretcher to his family. With the power of Falun Gong, he recovered quickly. The 610 Office and police started to retaliate by hiring guards to watch his home. They again took him to the detention center once his health recovered.

Those responsible for the persecution include: Liu Qiqian, Hu Jianping, Chen Wankang, and Wu Jingqing of the Mei County 610 Office; Xie Lianhui of the Mei County Procuratorate; a person with the surname of Chen in the Mei County Judiciary Bureau; Zhang Guoqin, the director of the 610 Office in the Meijian District; and Liang Weizhong, the deputy director of the Meijian District 610 Office.

On February 3, 2005, police from the Meizhou City National Security, the Meijiang District 610 Office, the Meijiang District Police Subdivision, and the Meizhou City 610 Office abducted Xie Hanzhu, Guo Yafen, Zhong Suyun and Zhong Hanxiang and other practitioners. They are being held in the Qinhuang Detention Center in Meizhou City.

In the Meijiang District:
Zhang Guoqing, deputy secretary of the Meijiang District Political and Legal Bureau and 610 Office director: 86-13802362038(cell)
Liang Weizhong, 610 Office deputy director: 86-753-2196766(home)
From the Meijiang District Police Subdivision:
Guobaogu: 86-753-2168210
Xue Qingwen: 86-13060739801(cell)
Liu Guodao: 86-13823855876(cell)
Huang Songfeng, Huang Ruizhang
The Meijiang District Jiangnan Police Station: 86-753-2244006
Meizhou Political and Legal Bureau: 86-753-2390832
Mei County 610 Office personnel: Liu Qiqian, Hu Jiangping, Chen Wankang, and Wu Jingqing
Mei County Procuratorate: Xie Lianhui.
Mei County Judiciary Bureau: a person with surname of Chen.

1. [Hubei Province] Falun Gong practitioner Min Changchun Is Injured and Disfigured as a Result of Torture at Qinduankou Prison

Just before the Chinese New Year (February 8, 2005), the Qinduankou Prison guards of Group 4 ordered over a dozen criminal inmates to take turns beating Falun Gong practitioner Min Changchun. Min Changchun became physically injured and disfigured after suffering beatings day and night. As a result, Min was sent to a hospital on February 22. The torture was instigated and overseen by prison official Deng Kailiang.

2. [Tumen City, Jilin Province] Police Arrest Practitioner Ms. Chi Suling at Her Home

At around 8:30 p.m. on February 22, 2005, the deputy director of the Shixian County Police Station Li Yanjun and police officer Liu Chengwu led six or seven police officers in a break-in of Ms. Chi Suling's home. They confiscated Falun Gong books and truth-clarifying materials. At around 9:30 p.m., they took Ms. Chi to the police station and one hour later, she was sent to the Tumen City Police Department.

Shixian Police Station: 86-433-3818345
Director of Shixian Police Station, Zhu Mingzeng: 86-433-3630677 (Home)
Deputy Director of Shixian Police Station, Li Yanjun: 86-433-3818989 (Home)
Police Officer Liu Chengwu: 86-433-3818989 (Home)

3. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Local Police Harass and Arrest Practitioners Ms. Liu Jianping and Ms. Li Muzhen

Ms. Liu Jianping, 30 years old, lives at Zhongjie Village, Ciyutuo Township, Luan County. Police from the Ciyutuo Police Station arrested her on February 18, 2005.

Ms. Li Muzhen, 50 years old, is from the same village as Ms. Liu. On February 18, 2005, the officials and police from Luan County 610 Office and Ciyutuo Police Station attempted to arrest her but failed. Later, they went to her home on many occasions to threaten and harass her family. As a result, Ms. Li left her home and became destitute to avoid further persecution.

4. [Changsha City, Hunan Province] Ms. Tan Xiangyu Is Taken to Hunan Women's Prison

Changsha City Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tan Xiangyu was sent to Hunan Women's Prison at the end of 2004 because she practiced Falun Gong. The prison officials refused to let Tan's family visit her. Before she was sent to Hunan Women's Prison, she was detained at a detention center, where she showed symptoms of severe illness. The prison initially refused to admit her because of illness, but officers in charge of her case insisted on sending her to the prison.

Deputy Warden, Zhang Lan (in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in prison), 86-731-2323878 (Home), 86-731-2323007 (Office), 86-13308498728 (Cell)
Education Section Leader, Ao Chunling (active participant of the persecution), 86-731-2323039 (Office), 86-13975163288 (Cell)
Education Section Assistant Leader, Zhang Zhuo (active participant of the persecution), 86-731-2323039 (Office), 86-13975868160 (Cell)
Xue (in charge of all prison guards), 86-13787788566
Special Team: 86-731-232304
Education Section: 86-731-2323039
Administration Section: 86-731-2323030
Inspection Section: 86-731-2323043
New Arrival Team: 86-731-2323710
Address: Xiangzhang Rd, Changsha City, Hunan Province
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2, Changsha City, Hunan Province, Zip code: 410004

5. [Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province] Additional Information About the Imprisonment of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Jie

Ms. Liu Jie was a nurse from Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province. She was sent to a forced labor camp in 2001. During her incarceration, she was often punished for being steadfast in practicing Falun Gong. She had severe nearsightedness and stigmatism that made it difficult for her to perform the forced labor. Oftentimes, she was forced to stand in the courtyard under the scorching sun during the day and was not allowed to sleep until 2 a.m. The next day, she had to get up at 5 a.m. and stand in the courtyard again. The labor camp also controlled her account so that she could not withdraw money to buy items for daily use. The guards also instructed drug addicts to abuse her.

6. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Wen Lianjie Is Taken to Suizhong County Detention Center

Police from the National Security Team of Suizhong County, Huludao City, Liaoning Province, ransacked Wen Lianjie's home on February 24, 2005. They confiscated Falun Gong books and truth-clarifying materials. Wen was arrested and taken to Suizhong County Detention Center.

Deputy Director of the local 610 Office, Cheng Guohua, 86-429-6120122 (Home), 86-13709896047 (Cell)
Captain of the Political and Security Team, Li Changhua, 86-13700196626 (Cell), 86-429-6122876 (Office)
Suizhong County 610 Office director, Shang Ergui, 86-429- 6131710 (Office), 86-429-6125558 (Home), 86-13130960038 (Cell)
Secretary of Political and Judiciary Committee, Shi Mingxin, 86-429-6123401(Office)

7. [Guangxi Province] Persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the Yulin Area

In December 2004, practitioner Chen Zhi was arrested at a Falun Gong material production site. Practitioner Mr. Chen Boyong, Ms. Liu Fen and others from Bobai County were sentenced to forced labor camps. Also, Ms. Pang Suzhen has been detained at the county detention center for almost two months.

Ms. Lin Tiemei is currently detained at the Guangxi Women's Prison. Three officers are watching her everyday. They are afraid to bear the responsibility should her life be in danger. Last year, Ms. Lin was forced to jump off a tall building. The labor camp was afraid to admit her, so they asked the county police department to take her back. The Bobai County Police Department declined to take her back. By the end of 2003, Lin's life was in danger. In order to evade responsibility, Guangxi Women's Prison released Lin after extorting a large amount of money from her family. Lin Tiemei went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong as soon as she was released. She was arrested and taken back to Bobai Police Department. Later, she was sent to the Guangxi Women Prison.

Bobai County 610 Office: 86-775-8230752, 86-755-8222179 (Fax)
Director of the local 610 Office, Zhou Jiquan: 86-775-8234110, 86-13517659558 (Cell)
Police Section Leader: Zou Wenwei

8. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] The Arrest of Wang Yuqing and Two Other Practitioners

On February 21, 2005, police from Yuhuang Police Station of Huludao City arrested three Falun Gong practitioners. They were Wang Yuqing, Wang Shuqing and an elderly practitioner with the surname of Si. They are currently being detained at Huludao Detention Center. Family visits are not allowed. It is said their arrest is being categorized as an important case for the Yuhuang Police Station.

Lianshan District Police Department: 86-429-3171012
Director of Yuhuang Police Station: 86-429-3171752
Yuhuang Police Station: 86-429-3171751

9. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Mr. Liu Jingsong Detained at the No. 2 Detention Center

After disappearing for many days, it is said that Mr. Liu Jingsong is currently being detained at Changchun City's No. 2 Detention Center. Liu works for the Changchun Automobile Factory.

Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners Mentioned on a Special Program of BBC One TV

"Question Time" is the premier political debating program broadcast on the UK's BBC One TV station. On Thursday March 10, the program did a special broadcast live from Shanghai in China with a panel featuring former Hong Kong Governor and EU Commissioner Chris Patten and writer and broadcaster Isabel Hilton, as well as a Chinese Government representative. A studio audience made up of Shanghai residents and visitors put forward questions for discussion.

One Chinese man asked the question, "Do you endorse the description of the human rights situation in China made by the most recent U.S. annual human rights report." The host of the show quoted the U.S. report, saying it "accused China of serious human rights violations including the killing and torture of dissidents" and that "the authorities are quick to suppress religious, political and social groups."

The first speaker to address this issue was Isabel Hilton, who quickly agreed with the U.S. report, telling the Shanghai audience and millions of viewers that "there have been many deaths in custody of Falun Gong practitioners." Ms. Hilton went on to list other human rights abuses happening in China and pointed out that it is not only the U. S. State Department that is critical of China's human rights.

In response to this point, the host of the show quoted Amnesty International's recent report on China's human rights, which states that "a growing number of brave individuals in China...are facing arrest torture and even death," for standing up for their basic freedoms. Ms. Hilton again agreed with the statement and pointed out that in China, several hundred people have died of abuse in custody over the last few years.

Photo Report: Washington, DC Falun Gong Practitioners Clarify the Truth in Front of the U.S. Supreme Court

At noon on March 11, 2005, Washington, DC practitioners went to the U.S. Supreme Court and exposed Jiang Zemin's factions' crimes of genocide and brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

The main book of Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun, was published in Slovak in March 2005.

Zhuan Falun, written by Master Li Hongzhi, is the main text of the Falun Gong cultivation practice system. It was first published in China at the end of 1994 and became a bestseller in Beijing in 1996.

The book is easy to read but contains profound principles. It benefits practitioners in health improvements and upgrading both mind and body, and leads people to ascend to higher levels. The teachings in the book have changed millions of lives. Falun Gong practitioners in Slovakia hoped that the Slovak people would have the opportunity to read and experience the depth of this book, and thus translated this book into Slovak.

At the end of 2004, a poll was taken of some tens of thousands of readers in Australia, to determine the bestsellers among 5,000 books. When the Australia Broadcasting Corporation reported the top 100 bestsellers, the only book on cultivation from the East, Zhuan Falun, was listed as No. 14 among books mainly written by Western writers.

As of mid-February 2004, Zhuan Falun had been translated into 25 languages and published around the world. It was welcomed by people from all walks of life. At the end of February 2005, a new Hebrew edition of Zhuan Falun was published and made available to readers.

Zhuan Falun in Slovak (ISBN 80-88969-23-9), as well as the book, Falun Gong (ISBN 80-88969-16-6) can be ordered from CAD Press publishing house.

Continuous Concern from the Finnish Government About the Persecution of Falun Gong

Recently, Falun Gong practitioners in Finland submitted signatures of appeal to the Foreign Minister of Finland to help end the persecution of Falun Dafa in China. The official in charge of human rights affairs in Finland's Foreign Ministry sent the Falun Gong students a letter in response, which indicated the continuous concern by the Finnish government for the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese government.

The official in charge of human rights affairs expressed his appreciation for the letter sent in by the Falun Gong students. He also acknowledged that letters from other areas of Finland had been received, appealing on behalf of Falun Gong. He affirmed the ministry's awareness of the letters of appeals that Falun Gong practitioners gathered to stop the persecution in China, as well as the special report regarding the human rights violations against children.

The official indicated that, as part of the continuous concern for China's human rights situation, Falun Gong will receive more attention in the relationship between Finland and China as well as in the human rights dialogue between the European Union and China. He stated that he took human rights reports provided by non-governmental organizations very seriously, and said that he hoped to maintain constructive cooperation in the future.

Texas, U.S.A.: Student Organization Holds Event to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Qu Yanlai

At noon on March 8, Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) at the University of Texas Arlington (UTA) held an event at the Central Library mall on campus to rescue Falun Gong practitioner Qu Yanlai and to let more kind-hearted people know about the plight of this excellent young scholar.

Several members of SPAN displayed posters and banners, and distributed informational material about Falun Dafa as well as information about the plight of Qu Yanlai. They also invited local Falun Gong practitioners to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises.

SPAN is a popular student organization which has chapters in many universities across the U.S. Its goal is to bring an end to violence in the U.S. and overseas. Mr. Zack Salo, the president of SPAN's Arlington Chapter, said, "The purpose for us to hold this event is to help Falun Gong practitioners. Through the practitioners' exercise demonstration and distributing fliers, we want to let more students on campus know what Falun Gong is and expose the ongoing human rights violations against Falun Gong in China. We hope that more people will pay close attention to this issue."

UTA engineering Professor Bei Gou is a graduate of Shanghai University of Transportation (SUT), and is also a member of the World Organization to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted in China, SUT Chapter. Professor Gou has participated in efforts to rescue Mr. Qu Yanlai before.

Dr. Gou said: "Qu Yanlai is outstanding; he graduated from the Department of Energy Engineering of SUT in 2000. He was a participant in the National Olympics Chemistry and Mathematics Competitions. He is also, however, widely respected more for his noble character. Since he started practicing Falun Gong, he strictly follows the principles of 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance,' giving priority to the needs of others and helping others unconditionally. He once donated his savings, clothes and bedding to classmates who were in great financial difficulty. Such an outstanding student, however, was secretly arrested and illegally sentenced to 5 years in prison for his unyielding belief in Falun Dafa."

Recently, minghui.ca [the Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net] reported that Mr. Qu has been holding a hunger strike continuously for 780 days to protest the brutal persecution, while the authorities have on four occasions turned down his attorney's request to meet with him. Dr. Gou feels the responsibility to let more people know about the genocidal campaign against Falun Gong and to help end this persecution. He said, "As a fellow practitioner and alumnus of SUT, I admire the courage of Qu Yanlai and support him wholeheartedly."

Practitioners' Compassion has Received Increasing Respect from around the World

While the persecution launched and maintained by Jiang Zemin's regime and the Chinese Communist Party has lasted for nearly 6 years, millions of practitioners have never stopped their efforts to expose the evil nature of the persecution, and to expose the lies of the Chinese communist regime. Practitioners risk the danger of arrest, beatings, incarceration and even death, for their brave actions.

In the past 6 years, the Chinese Communist Party has never applied the rule of law towards Falun Gong practitioners. Therefore, there is enormous pressure and difficulty facing legal professionals, such as attorney Guo Guanting, who step forward to defend the rights of Falun Gong practitioners including Qu Yanlai. Dr. Gou said: "From this case, I see the noble character and the best of humanity in Attorney Guo. The righteous actions of Guo Guanting deserve international attention, support and respect."

In an open letter published by Attorney Guo on the Internet, Mr. Guo expressed how he was moved by practitioners' compassion and integrity, and he referred to Mr. Qu Yanlai as "my honorable client." Attorney Guo also described how Mr. Qu's mother called him twice concerning his own security without mentioning her son, while in fact her son was in critical condition and great pain because of persecution. Mr. Guo said: "I was so touched and realized that compassion is so powerful.''

This is the first-ever event of this kind organized by SPAN UTA chapter. The communication between practitioners and the organization was surely a process of truth clarification. In the end, SPAN decided to hold this event and have its members distribute Falun Gong materials. This reporter heard SPAN members telling passers-by: "Falun Gong is not a religion and it has nothing to do with politics. They believe in the principles of 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance'... and why is he [Qu Yanlai] being persecuted? Because he holds on to his belief firmly and never gives up."

Dr. Gou said: "Through the five-years-plus effort of truth clarification by practitioners, we now see more and more kind-hearted people who have learned the truth. Practitioners' noble actions have touched people and won their respect. I am so pleased to see the help offered by SPAN UTA chapter."

Though it was the spring break at UTA, there were still many students passing by the library. Local practitioners were invited to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises in front of the library. They also displayed posters reading, "Urgent! Rescue Falun Gong Practitioners," as well as other information and photos along the walkway.

One student carefully studied all the posters, and she expressed her sympathy to Qu Yanlai who was tortured simply for his belief. She said that she wanted to sign her name to support him. When she learned that practitioners hadn't prepared petition forms for this event, she said that she would write to her congressman to urge him to pay closer attention to the persecution in China. Moreover, this student was very interested in the exercises and said that she would contact local practitioners later to learn Falun Gong.

When practitioners were demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises, many people who were relaxing and enjoying the sunshine nearby were attracted by the serene and peaceful scene. A young man told a practitioner that he had been planning to learn Falun Gong for a long time and yet had never found time to contact local practitioners. He was very happy to see practitioners on campus. The practitioner told him about an upcoming Falun Gong workshop on March 20. There were also many others who asked for information about the workshop.

A gentleman who has a strong interest in China talked with a practitioner for a long time. For several years, he has been tracking news about the persecution of Falun Gong and other groups by the Chinese Communist Party. He was very happy to meet practitioners and he told a practitioner that he could feel the positive energy emitted by practitioners. He also suggested that practitioners work more with other international organizations such as Amnesty International, to help stop the persecution.

When the Chinese Government launched its persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, it was looking for a quick kill - three months to be exact. Jiang Zemin, the main perpetrator of the persecution, claimed, "I just do not believe the Communist Party cannot conquer Falun Gong." The very fact that the persecution is still going on, however, sends an unmistakable message: Falun Gong is still standing in China, and Falun Gong practitioners are still going strong!

The sacrifices made by Falun Gong practitioners are tremendous. From what has leaked through the tight media control of the Chinese government, we know that over 1,400 Falun Gong practitioners have died at the hands of police.

What makes Falun Gong practitioners so resilient? What are they insisting on? A new book, Stories of Conscience, addresses the significance and nature of this historical event from the angle of human conscience. As stated in the book's preface:

"Why are Falun Gong practitioners so unyielding to coercion? Why are they so uncompromising in insisting on their conscience? If right and wrong can be compromised, why have right and wrong? If good can cave in to evil, what will values and principles be based on? Conscience, the innate knowing of goodness, is the very essence of humanity. Everything else, even our 'inalienable rights,' can be forcibly taken away. The alteration of our conscience, no matter how small, must be consented to from within. Conscience, thus, defines human nature, and the right to conscience is a human being's most fundamental right.

"No crime, therefore, is worse than the crime against conscience. The Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong not only violates Falun Gong practitioners' right to conscience, but is also an assault aimed at the destruction of human nature."

Through eleven heart-touching stories, Stories of Conscience describes not only how barbaric the persecution is, but, much more importantly, it eloquently portrays practitioners' gallant defense of humanity and their conscious choice of goodness in resisting evil. The simple narration brings to life those who have lost their lives during the persecution, presents these real, kind and common people to the world, and gives a new meaning to peace, courage and conscience through their stories and experiences. The barbaric persecution will become a distant past in the near future when the evildoers are reduced to dust, but Falun Gong practitioner's conscience, courage, and sacrifice will forever remain humanity's most precious heritage.

Even though this book was published only one week ago, an abundance of positive feedback has been received. One reader, who formerly held a suspicious attitude towards Falun Gong, said after reading just a few pages of this book, "These stories are thought- provoking. What can I do [for these practitioners]?" When told this book does not require the reader to do anything, he said, "Well, that's true. But when you read a book like this, you naturally think about what you can do to help."

Another reader said, "It's unbelievable. Falun Gong has an incredible strength that enables its practitioners to endure one round of brutal torture after another." As a qigong lover, he has been exploring various kinds of qigong. But due to the misleading information provided by the media, he had been evading Falun Gong. Now he is very happy to read this book and thinks it will undoubtedly change his life. This person not only wants to learn Falun Gong himself, but he also wants his son to join him.

Stories of Conscience is published by the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group (www.falunhr.org). Readers can download this book free of charge from http://www.falunhr.org/reports/2005/Report2005.pdf

On February 19th, Falun Gong practitioners in northern Germany were invited to participate in the Vietnamese New Year Celebration in Bremen. Vietnamese residents from Bremen and the surrounding districts celebrated the Vietnamese New Year. Every year for fifteen years, Bremen's Vietnamese community has come together for this event, which offers elaborate stage performances and delicious Vietnamese food.

A small photo exhibition detailed the journey of Falun Dafa. The pictures started in 1992, when the practice was first brought to the public, and went on to show the numerous awards and recognitions that reflected Falun Gong's popularity among the Chinese people before the persecution began. For his own wicked interest, however, former Chinese president Jiang Zemin banned Falun Gong in July 1999 and thereafter launched a vicious campaign of genocide and suppression that has already resulted in the deaths of over 1,400 innocent people.

The highlight for the visitors was the "Dunhuang dance," performed on-stage by one of the Falun Gong practitioners. Dunhuang is cultural town in Northwestern China, where thousands of priceless ancient paintings and sculptures were discovered in the 19^th Century. The dance was to depict the beautiful ancient Chinese culture. As soon as the first tones of the music for the "Dunhuang dance" were heard, the visitors gave the performer their undivided attention. The onlookers found the dance beautiful and charming. Immediately following the performance, the president of the Vietnamese Association presented the dancer with a bouquet of flowers. He expressed his appreciation for the stable and happy cooperative relationship between his association and Falun Gong practitioners.

My daughter's nickname is Kaixin, which means "joyful" in Chinese, and her official name is Huang Ying. Her mother, Luo Zhixiang, was a Falun Gong practitioner who died from the brutality of the Guangzhou police. My little daughter was separated from her mother when she was only three months old. She lost her mother at the age of one and a half. This caused her young mind to be deeply troubled.

Little Huang Ying (nickname Kaixin) kisses her mother's picture, saying "I miss Mom."

As a result of the all-out efforts of numerous Falun Gong practitioners, my daughter finally arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 10, 2004, reuniting her with her father. She also has been granted asylum status by the Thai Government.

I was trying my best to make Kaixin happy. However, what I worried about happened. Every night, Kaixin cried in her sleep. In the beginning, I sent righteous thoughts toward her because I thought she was being interfered with by the evil. It was not very effective. She still cried continuously at night. She also sounded different than other children. She tried to suppress it, and apparently was in great misery.

"Kaixin, do you miss Mom?" I asked. Only then, did Kaixin cry out loudly, "I miss Mom! Others have their moms, but I don't. Oh, I miss Mom so much! I want Mom! Dad, I don't remember what Mom looked like!" She started crying again and I held her tightly and also burst into tears.

Even now, the Chinese Communist Party is continuing its crazed persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in China. Let's voice our strongest condemnation of the brutality of the Chinese Communist Party and put an end to this cruel persecution, which has lasted almost six years!

Mr. Zhou Decheng, 73, from Nong'an County, Jilin Province Died in 2004 as a Result of Persecution

Mr. Zhou Decheng, a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Kaoshan Town, Nong'an County, Jilin Province, was 73 years old. On November 7, 2000, Mr. Zhou went to a fellow practitioner's home carrying two banners with the words, "Falun Dafa is Good!" He was reported, arrested, and taken to the Kaoshan Police Substation from his home, by former Substation Director Fan Hongbin (male) and a group of policemen. They later sent Mr. Zhou to the County Political Security Office.

In the Nong'an County Political Security Office, five to six policemen beat Zhou Decheng mercilessly. Two of his front teeth were knocked out, and blood gushed from his nose and mouth. Even as he bled profusely, the elderly man still shouted loudly and strongly, "Falun Dafa is good!" Another policeman grabbed Mr. Zhou's hair and slammed his head against the wall. They detained Zhou Decheng for 15 days, and ordered him to pay more than four hundred yuan for "room and board" before releasing him. The police went to Mr. Zhou's home afterwards to harass and threaten him, and they ransacked his home several times.

Mr. Zhou Decheng died on October 21, 2004. The doctor found that he died from cerebral thrombosis (stroke) caused by the head injury he sustained during detention.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Shushan, Who Walked from Changchun City to Beijing, Died from the Persecution

Mr. Zhang Shushan, 61 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in the Fifth Dujia Group, Shuangyang District, Changchun City, Jilin Province. He was sent to a forced labor camp because of appealing for Falun Dafa in Beijing. After being tortured repeatedly, Mr. Zhang died on February 27, 2005.

The first time he went to Beijing to appeal, Mr. Zhang Shushan was arrested and detained for fifteen days. In 2001, before the Chinese New Year (January 24), he walked more than twenty days to Tiananmen Square, and was sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp. Mr. Zhang was tortured in the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun City.

In April 2002, Falun Gong practitioners were brutally tortured in the labor camp. Eyewitnesses said that Mr. Zhang declared that anything he had said or written under torture was null and void. He declared that he was "Firmly cultivating Falun Dafa!" Deputy Director Liu Wenrui (male) of the Third Ward and a uniformed guard surnamed Peng beat him mercilessly that night. They struck him hard with the handle of a shovel, shocked him with an electric baton and whipped him with a belt. They tortured Mr. Zhang for several hours, then dragged him to a restroom, stripped him naked, poured cold water on his body, and then shocked him again with the electric baton. Finally, the villains poured a salt solution on his wounds and someone even shouted, "Rub some salt on his wounds!" No matter how brutal the torture was, Mr. Zhang did not give in one bit.

On February 25, 2003, Mr. Zhang's term ended. However, instead of being released, he was sent to the Xinglongshan Brainwashing Class by the Shuangyang District 610 Office because he continued to practice Falun Gong. Due to the relentless abuse and the poor living environment in detention, Mr. Zhang suffered from scabies. When the scabies developed into a severe condition, the authorities injected him with an unknown drug that made his legs turn dark and swollen. Zhang Shushan was very weak and appeared to be dying. The police were afraid to be held responsible for his death, and notified his family to pick him up at the end of March or beginning of April 2003. He was quite ill and undernourished upon returning home. Mr. Zhang never recovered and eventually died on February 27, 2005.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Gao Jun was born on May 6, 1972, and lived on Xinghua Street, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He started practicing Falun Gong in late 1998. After starting the practice, his previous illnesses including psoriasis, parotid gland lump, and gastritis all vanished. He also quit smoking and drinking, and thoroughly let go of his previous thoughts of committing suicide due to the failure of his career. Falun Gong saved his life.

On July 20, 1999, the head of the evildoers in China started to arbitrarily persecute Falun Gong. Gao Jun was beaten by the police for going to the city government to peacefully appeal, and was arrested and incarcerated twice.

When he went to Beijing to appeal, Gao Jun was illegally incarcerated for a total of three days in the Jinzhou City Police Department in Beijing. After he was sent back to Dalian City, Xinghua Police Station personnel escorted him to the Yaojiao Detention Center where he was held for a month. The police subjected him to forced labor and compelled him to write the guarantee statement. After his release Mr. Gao was further monitored and watched, and his daily activities had to be reported to the police station. Because policeman Dong Shiguo often came to his home to harass him, and called him in and verbally abused him, Mr. Gao became homeless in order to avoid further persecution.

As Gao Jun was a new practitioner when the persecuted started, he knew few fellow practitioners. So he had to stay in the homes of his friends or classmates who did not practice Falun Gong. Due to the persecution, Mr. Gao's health deteriorated. He died on February 6, 2005, at the age of thirty-three.

1. Crimes of Policemen in the "National Security Guard Group" of the First Division of the Dalian City Police Department

The deputy chief of the National Security Guard Group, Chen Xin, directs and participates in the tapping of Falun Gong practitioners' telephones, unlawful spying on practitioners, and interrogating practitioners with torture. He forces and bribes policemen under his command to arrest and abduct practitioners, confiscate their personal property and money, illegally sentence practitioners to forced labor camps or prison, and torture practitioners, sometimes to death. Chen Xin is behind the destruction of most of the Dafa truth-clarifying materials production sites in Dalian City.

Officer Gao Yingzhong has always been active in torturing practitioners, and he always tortures practitioners in secret. Additionally, in Beijing he stole money from practitioners.

2. Dafa Practitioner Guan Yingxin has been Imprisoned and Tortured in Heilongjiang Women's Prison for Three and a Half Years

On December 22, 2000, Dafa practitioner Guan Yingxin was unlawfully arrested at her workplace by policemen Wang Zhiwen, Wu Dexi, Xu Chongfeng and Zhang Shaohua from the Heihe City Aihui District Police Department. The same night, Guan Yingxin was taken to the Heihe City Detention Center. Since Guan Yingxin refused to cooperate with the perpetrators and renounce Falun Dafa, she was transferred to Xunke Detention Center on December 27. On September 17, 2001, Guan Yingxin was unlawfully sentenced to seven years and imprisoned in Heilongjiang Women's Prison. During her imprisonment, Guan Yingxin has been monitored constantly. She cannot walk anywhere or talk freely. She has to be monitored when eating, washing up and using the toilet. She is not allowed to see her family, make phone calls, write letters, or buy anything.

3. Falun Gong practitioners Resist Persecution with their Righteous Thoughts in Guangyuan Prison, Sichuan Province

Before the New Year of 2005, policemen in Guangyuan Prison, Sichuan Province made chalkboard posters maligning Dafa. They erased them after Falun Gong practitioners talked to them solemnly. For every Dafa practitioner, Guangyuan Prison assigns two to three criminal inmates to monitor them 24 hours a day in rotating shifts. Practitioners are not allowed to talk to each other, and their daily activities are recorded. The prison even makes fake recordings of Falun Gong practitioners studying brainwashing materials. Dafa practitioner Xiao Hongmo, who is unlawfully jailed in the Second Ward, shouted out "Falun Dafa is good!" Policemen then pushed him down, stepped on his neck, and beat him with batons. As a result of being beaten, Xiao Hongmo was very weak for a long time. Later, Xiao Hongmo held a hunger strike to protest the unlawful detention, and was jailed in a solitary compartment and force-fed. He stopped the persecution with his righteous thoughts. In August 2003, prison authorities made chalkboard posters maligning Falun Dafa. Falun Gong practitioners Xu Weidong (from Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province) and Xie Hongming (from Longquanyi District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province) erased them, and they were subsequently severely beaten by the guards. Practitioner Cao Jiguang (from Linshui County) has been jailed in the Strictly Monitored Division for nine months, since the beginning of his term at Deyang Prison. He always speaks the truth with his righteous thoughts when policemen talk to him. In June 2004, Cao Jiguang wrote a 50-page truth-clarifying letter to the prison police, and after that, they quit administering so-called "transforming" discussions. For the past three and a half years, Cao Jiguang has not had to report anything to the police, and he has not had to wear a prison uniform.

There are more than 30 Falun Gong practitioners unlawfully jailed in Guangyuan Prison, including Xiao Hongmo from Guanghan City, Zeng Yuxian from Cangxi County, Wu Bochen from Pingchang County, Zhang Zongshan, Cao Jiguang from Linshui County, Zhang Rui from Pi County, Xu Weidong from Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, Kang Li and Lu Shengyun from Shuangliu County, Chengdu City, Xie Hongming from Longquanyi District, Chengdu City, Shuai Liangcheng from Jiajiang County, Tang Deliang from Tongnan County, Chongqing, Yang Guobing from Ebian County, 3 practitioners from Zitong County, and 3 from Gulin County. There are also several practitioners from Xichang City.

4. Dafa Practitioner Liu Zhenhai from Chengdu, Sichuan Province Exposes the Barbaric Persecution by Unlawful People in Wuhou District, Chengdu City

My name is Liu Zhenhai and I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jinhua Town, Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Because of my belief in Falun Gong, I was unlawfully detained and jailed from December 1999 to January 31, 2005. During the imprisonment, I lost all my freedom, and I was severely beaten. Vicious policemen took off my clothes and beat me. They hit me in the stomach, and the beatings left bruises all over my body. One time, two policemen lifted me up and threw me down to the ground in a narrow alley because I recited Dafa articles loudly. Another time, because I sent forth righteous thoughts, policemen from Jinhua Town beat my knees with a wooden club. Fellow practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts to support me. Vicious policemen pulled me down the stairs from the third floor, which scraped the skin off my back. During the winter, policemen pulled me out of bed, removed my clothes, and forced me sleep on the concrete floor. They even kept the door open, letting the cold wind blow on me. Policemen also yanked on my fingers for half an hour. Policeman Liu Xiaokang inserted a burning cigarette into my collar, which burned a hole in my shirt. They put menthol oil on my eyelids to make them burn, and rubbed my chest with stinging nettles. Some practitioners' heads were severely beaten, and they had difficulty breathing due to the brutal treatment. I was beaten on a bed until I fell to the ground. We held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Due to our righteous thoughts, the authorities no longer dared touch us.

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Zhaoxiang is thirty-seven years old, and a resident of Worker's Village, Dongshan District, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province. The police recently arrested him. No one knows of his whereabouts.

2. [Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province] Mr. Zhou Dechang and Mr. Chai Dengyi Are Arrested and Imprisoned

In May 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Gu Yanqing from Pulandian City, Liaoning Province was handing out truth clarifying materials in Zhongzhenggou Tun, Zhenggou Village, Chengzitan Town, Pulandian City. The village Party Secretary, Sun Yuquan (male) reported him and had police officer Wang Shuiyong (male) and Jiang Chunsheng (male) arrest Mr. Gu. He is now detained in Pulandian City Detention Center.

At noon on January 24, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. An Senbiao went to Yuanshengli Police Substation to clarify the truth. He was arrested for handing out Dafa materials. Around 4 p.m. that day, police officer Liu Yanqing (male) and another police officer, Party Secretary E Jintai (male) from the Second Petroleum Collecting Plant and Deputy Secretary Wang Xizhong found Mr. An's house key while doing a body search. They ransacked his home in the presence of his wife. Mr. An is detained in Longfeng Detention Center.

5. [Jiaohe City, Jilin Province] Ms. Li Guirong and Her Daughter Yang Tiemei Are Arrested

Recently, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Xiuying from Dalian City was posting truth-clarifying materials in Northeast Second Power Company of Dalian City. She was captured on a hidden camera and police from the local Lingshuiqiao Substation later arrested her.

On November 24, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Lai Caijun, a teacher at Chaoyangjie Elementary School in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, was reported for clarifying the truth to her students. She was arrested by State Security Agent Fu Yanling (male) and police officer Chen Zhi. Ms. Lai is now detained in a detention center. The state security officials tried to sue her by filing a case against her in Lingyuan City Procuratorate.

8. [Haicheng City, Liaoning Province] A Falun Dafa Practitioner Is Arrested When Distributing Truth-Clarification Materials

At 2 p.m. on January 24, 2005, a Falun Dafa practitioner was arrested for distributing truth clarifying materials in Sanjiazi Village, Wenxiang Town, Haicheng City, Liaoning Province. The practitioner is detained in Haicheng City Detention Center. This practitioner has not revealed his/her name.

9. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Mr. Yu Shenghe and His Wife Ma Guizhen from Changyi City Are Arrested Again

On January 8, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhu Haiding from Suizhou City, Hubei Province was arrested from his home by police from Rudong County, Jiangsu Province. Mr. Zhu was reported to the police after spreading the truth of Falun Dafa in Rudong County, Jiangsu Province.

11. [Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province] Mr. Li Zhenfang, Mr. Zhang Mingfang and Ms. Xiao Shanrun from Bucun Mine Are Under Close Surveillance

Around the end of January 2005, Fucun Coal Mine (under Zibo City Mining Bureau) sent people to closely monitor three retired employees, Mr. Li Zhenfang, Mr. Zhang Mingfang, and Ms. Xiao Shanyun.

12. [Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province] Zhai Shanyong from Zaoyuan Town Is Sentenced to Eighteen Months of Forced Labor

On the evening of October 19, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhai Shanyong was reported for distributing truth-clarifying materials in Baita Village, Zaoyuan Town, Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province. The local police arrested him and sentenced him to 18 months of forced labor. Mr. Zhai is now imprisoned in Wangcun Labor Camp in Shandong Province.

Zhangqiu City Anti-[slanderous term omitted] Team Leader Yang Bingliang (male): 86-531-3310927 (Home), 86-13606371610 (Cell phone)

13. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Police from Guta District Arrest the Child of a Falun Dafa Practitioner

Around 9 a.m. on January 21, 2005, two police officers from Beijie Substation of Guta District, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province ransacked Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Hui's home. They took away her Falun Dafa books, Teacher Li's photo, and truth clarifying materials. Ms. Xu Hui's son was arrested as well, and is detained in Jinzhou City Detention Center.

On December 25, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Zhengfen (a post office employee in her 50s) and Ms. Xu Wenxiu (a Chongqing City department store employee in her 60s) were arrested by police when clarifying the truth in Jilong, Banan District. No one knows their current whereabouts.

Around January 15, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Gao Xingfa (in his 60s) from Quepo Village, Hongning Town, Wulian County, Shandong Province was arrested by police from Wulian County Station. He is detained in the County Detention Center.

Posting date: 3/13/2005
Original article date: 3/13/2005
Category: Latest News from China
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/27/94308.html


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