News and Events from Around the World

• Toronto, Canada: Over Two Thousand Practitioners Gather in Toronto and Celebrate the Wide Spread of Falun Dafa (Photos)
• Russia: Photo Exhibition of "The Journey of Falun Dafa" Held in Nizhny Novgorod (Photos)

Facts of the Persecution

• A Good Person is Sent to a Mental Hospital and Persecuted to Death (Photo)
• How Zhang Xiangfu Suffered in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province
• Jilin Police Interrogates and Tortures a Falun Gong Practitioner, Burning Her Fingers with a Cigarette Lighter
• Persecution Put Me at Death's Door More Than Once
• Torture Methods Used on Dafa Practitioners in the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp
• Ms. Qiu Li and Ms. Jiang Chunxia Persecuted to the Point Where They Are Emaciated at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
• Illegally Sentenced to 10 years, Practitioner Ms. Li Xiaoyu Suffered Persecution in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province (Photo)
• Son Appeals for His Mother, Zhao Tingyun, Who Died from the Persecution
• Lanzhou Women's Jail in Gansu Province Threatens to Secretly Kill Falun Gong Practitioners
• Wang Xi Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison and Her Family's Visitation Rights Denied
• Six Falun Dafa Practitioners from Yunnan Province, Hubei Province, Hebei Province and Other Locations Died Due to the Persecution
• Additional Persecution News from China - April 29, 2006 (32 Reports)
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 18, 2006 (23 Reports)
• Four Cases of Missing Practitioners from Dalian, Chongqing, and Cangzhou Cities

Investigating Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners

• Liver Transplant Center of No. 3 Hospital Affiliated to Zhongshan University in Guangzhou Finds Liver and Kidney for Transplant Within One Day

Practitioners Exchange Experiences and Insights

• Clarifying the Truth during an International Organ Transplant Conference
• It Is We Who Are Cultivating
• Facing Wicked Ordeals with Righteous Thoughts and Saving Sentient Beings with Compassion
• Pay More Attention to Doing the Falun Gong Exercises, Get Rid of Fatigue and Do Well the Three Things
• Studying Master's Article "Pass the Deadly Test"
• Within One Week of Practicing Falun Dafa a Rare and Incurable Disease Disappears

Bearing Witness to History

• Recalling the Days When Master Taught Falun Gong in Kenli County, Shandong Province
• Falun Dafa Spreading Widely in the Cities and Towns of Hualian County, Taiwan (Photos)

Voices of Justice

• Mayor Jerry Abramson of the City of Louisville Issues Proclamation for Falun Dafa Day

Peoples Hearts Determine Their Futures

• Karmic Retribution for Those Who Persecuted Practitioners in Sichuan and Shandong Provinces and Shenzhen City

Traditional Culture

• Chinese Saying: "Duo-Duo Yi-Shan"

Clearwisdom Material

• Clearwisdom Weekly - May 22 ~ May 28, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 27, 2006, over two thousand Falun Gong practitioners from around the world gathered on Dundas Square at downtown Toronto to participate in a rally and grand parade to celebrate the 14th anniversary of Falun Dafa's public introduction. Besides praising the grace of Falun Dafa, the practitioners called on people to help stop the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s persecution of Falun Gong.

Celebration venue: Young practitioners demonstrate the exercises

Plum dance
 

The Divine Land Marching Band   Practitioners demonstrate the exercises on a float     Commemorating practitioners tortured to death   Passersby stop to watch the parade

The Divine Land Marching Band played "Falun Dafa is good", "The Fa Rectifies the Universe" and other songs at the start of the celebration. The practitioners praised Dafa, sent their appreciation to Master and celebrated the wide spread of Dafa across the world with songs, dances, and poetry.

George Smitherman, Ontario's Minister of Health, said in his speech, "I will stand with you forever."

Falun Gong has spread to nearly 80 countries and regions, and received as many as 1,354 awards, 168 resolutions from various governments, and 1,112 support letters.

Stephen Harper, Canada's Prime Minister, Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, Peter Julian, Member of Parliament and other officials sent congratulatory letters to World Falun Dafa Day and Falun Dafa Month in May.

George Smitherman, Ontario's Minister of Health, came to the site and said he was happy to welcome Falun Gong practitioners and supporters from around the world to come to Toronto to celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of Falun Dafa's public introduction.
Practitioner Xun Li of Canada's Falun Dafa Association greeted practitioners and guests from across the world and expressed everyone's appreciation to Master Li for his introduction of Falun Dafa.

Mr. Li said in his speech, "On May 1992, Master Li brought Falun Dafa to the public in Changchun. Within seven years, Falun Gong had spread all over China and to overseas. More than one hundred million people around the world have benefited from the practice."
He further said, "Under the CCP's seven-year long genocide policy, Falun Gong practitioners have overcome countless tribulations and remained steadfast in their belief of 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance'. We thank the Canadian people and government for their support and help. Let's work together to bring an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China."

After the rally, the parade started from Dundas Square, passed by downtown and Chinatown, and ended in the park in front of the Ontario Provincial Government. It lasted for two hours.

Mr. Wu came to Toronto for just a few months from China. He said after watching the parade, "Such a grand parade. Everyone expresses his voice. From this, we can see that one person's will cannot change the people's choice. When everyone wants to have a healthy body and promote compassion, Falun Gong can spread to everywhere across the world."

One Chinese person who had misunderstandings towards Falun Gong was greatly impressed by the "Divine Land Marching Band" in the parade. A practitioner handed him a CD of the Nine Commentaries and he accepted. He also accepted other truth-clarification materials. He said to the practitioner, "I will look at them and keep them well."

(Clearwisdom.net) From May 12 to 26, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Russia held a photo exhibition of "The Journey of Falun Dafa" in downtown Nizhny Novgorod. The exhibition was composed of over 200 photos, including the wide spread of Falun Dafa across the world, the wonder of Falun Gong, practitioners' participation in the Chinese New Year Gala of New Tang Dynasty TV from 2004 to 2006, and paintings by practitioner Zhang Cuiying.

During the two-week exhibition, many local people came to view the exhibition, especially visiting groups from the Nizhny Novgorod Music School and Youth Football Team. Approximately one hundred youths became to know Falun Dafa through the visit. Many artists also visited the exhibition.

People look at the photos attentively. Some of them talked with practitioners to learn more

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Huang Xingjin, born in 1957, was an elementary school teacher at the Xiyuan Elementary School in Wuwei City, Gansu Province. She began practicing Falun Dafa in 1997, and both her physical and mental health improved tremendously thereafter. She was awarded the Liangzhou District Outstanding Teacher Award, as well as the School Progress Worker on several occasions.

The Jiang Zemin regime began the persecution of Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999, and Ms. Huang could not understand the rationale behind the persecution. One day in February 2000, she went to a fellow practitioner's home for a chat and saw members of the Public Security Bureau arresting that practitioner. Puzzled, she told the policemen, "Falun Gong teaches everyone to be good. I practice Falun Gong myself!" From then on, the Public Security Bureau as well as the school leaders began visiting her home to try to persuade her to give up the practice as well as to write the guarantee statement to give up the practice. The Public Security Bureau put her under a lot of pressure through the Ministry of Education by refusing to let her go to work, withholding her salary, and dismissing her from her position until she wrote a guarantee statement not to participate in Falun Gong cultivation-related activities in the future.

Ms. Huang wrote a paper sharing her experiences in cultivating Falun Gong. In her paper, she described how Falun Gong only teaches its practitioners to be good, and how the government can be wrong sometimes. The paper did not survive, unfortunately. The paper was found by her husband, Zhang Junyi. He thought that instead of being a guarantee statement, this was in fact glorifying Dafa, so he stopped her from submitting the paper to the authorities. He tried to forced her to write a "Guarantee Statement," but Ms. Huang refused to do so even if she was to lose her life.

Thereafter, even though she was perfectly sane and healthy, her husband and aunt forcibly sent her to the Wuwei Mental Hospital for fear of being persecuted along with her. At the mental hospital, she refused to take drugs and continued practicing the exercises. She also clarified the truth to all the doctors and nurses and demanded to be released from the hospital and be allowed to return to work. However, her husband disagreed and refused to let her out unless she wrote the Guarantee Statement.

In order to free herself from the torture and restriction on her personal freedom in the mental hospital, Ms. Huang agreed against her will to write the Guarantee Statement after being released from the hospital.

After returning home however, Ms. Huang remained strong and refused to write the guarantee statements. Moreover, she demanded to be allowed to go to work, but was refused by the Wuwei County Education Bureau and her school department. Her husband began locking her up at home to prevent her from appealing to the government and even said that he was a supervisory personnel from the Education Bureau and that he would lock up anyone would practiced Falun Gong. He tried all possible means to stop his wife and even beat her. Ms. Huang was deprived of her freedom as a result.

Another week passed under these circumstances. Under the pressure and persecution, Ms. Huang felt that she was unable to withstand the torture anymore, and wrote down that her death hopefully would stop the government from persecuting Falun Gong. On the morning of March 28, 2000, she jumped from her four-story apartment and ended her life. (Editor's note: As a Dafa cultivator, committing suicide is wholly against the teachings and requirements of Dafa. Every cultivator must follow the Fa and act according to its requirements.)

Soon afterwards the local news media in Gansu and Wuwei reported this incident. However, they twisted the story and said that Ms. Huang had committed suicide because she had turned insane after practicing Falun Gong. This event has unfortunately further added to the misunderstandings of ordinary society has about Falun Dafa.

Huang's husband, Zhang Junyi, died in March 2004 from stomach cancer. After losing their parents and the family education funds, Ms. Huang's children turned into criminals. In the end, a happy family was destroyed by the CCP's persecution.

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiangfu was an employee of Fangzheng County Coal Mine in Heilongjiang Province. When he refused to give up his practice of Falun Gong, he was arrested and tortured many times. Police from the Fangzheng County Police Department and the 610 Office sent him to Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in 2002. There the guards used over twenty different torture methods on him. They broke several ribs and chest bones, his skull was fractured and the backs of his hands were scorched. The guards invented a new torture to increase his suffering. They shot needles from a homemade gun at the practitioners. The needles go deep into the flesh, where they cause excruciating pain. Mr. Zhang died on October 15, 2005, from brutal torture, at the age of 33.

The following is part of a video interview of Zhang Xiangfu when he was alive, where he describes the torture inflicted on him.

Q: You said that you picked up toothpicks. Does this mean they poured the toothpicks on the ground for you to pick up and package in the forced labor camp?

Zhang: When we packed toothpicks, some would drop on the floor. The foreman told us to sweep up all the dust, dirt and garbage together. Then the foreman told us to pick out the toothpicks and pack them for sale. Some toothpicks had phlegm on them, our hands were very dirty and we had scabies on our hands.

Q: Are the scabies contagious?
Zhang: Ah...

Q: Your hands had blood and yellow pus on them?
Zhang: Yes, blood and pus...

Q: Were the toothpicks to be sold on the market?
Zhang: Yes, some were exported and some were sent to other places in China.

Q: They were sold overseas?
Zhang: Yes, many were sold overseas. Later in my stay, Zhao Shuang (brigade chief) ordered three prisoners to torture me using one of the cruelest methods. I felt extremely ill from the compression of my internal organs and was nearly suffocated.

Q: Suffocated?
Zhang: Yes, then Zhao Shuang tortured me by using an electric baton on my head for a long time. Another time, when Wang Kai was on duty, he used...

Q: What position does Wang Kai hold?
Zhang: Wang Kai is an instructor. When he was on duty, he ordered three prisoners to torture me. One of the prisoners was Li Chunlong, who made my nose bleed. He also clenched my private parts, causing me enormous pain.

Q: Those methods are extremely obscene.
Zhang: Extremely obscene.

Zhang: After a period of time, Yang Wenjie was again transferred back to Division 5. They tortured Yang Wenjie in the same way, and as a result Yang Wenjie lost control of his bowels. Then they pulled him to the big line (a line of prisoners). They slapped his face and tortured him.

Zhang: After a period of time, my legs would often cramp when I tried to sleep at night. The long persecution and torture severely injured my muscles. They were extremely painful.

Q: Were you getting muscle cramps many times during the day?
Zhang: If my legs were in a slightly wrong position at night, they would cramp. I had to use lots of effort to bring the muscles back to a position without pain. It was very painful to do that.

Q: Was it always like that or did it happen many times during a day?
Zhang: When I slept at night.

Q: Many times a night?
Zhang: Many, many times during the night.

Q: Basically, you could not sleep well.
Zhang: I could not sleep well. They cramped as soon as my legs were not in the right position. I had to stretch them out right away.

Q: That is a lot of suffering.
Zhang: After this long-term persecution, I had a high fever all day. I was emaciated and the hospital diagnosed it as tuberculosis. I was in pain all day, my high temperature did not go down and my chest felt like I was suffocating. All of these things done to me were only a drop in the ocean of crimes the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp committed against Falun Dafa practitioners. Many people experienced the same things I did. Many died from the persecution. In comparison, the degree of persecution I suffered was relatively small compared to what others suffered. For example, Huang Tiecheng was left hanging up in the air for three days and nights. During those days, they also tortured him in other ways. That caused his joints to swell. He was in great pain, and whenever he stood he had to hold onto the wall to walk. Two people supervised him on every shift and they did not allow him to sleep. Many people tortured him in shifts, often punching him in the chest. Yang Yu used an electric baton on Huang Tiecheng while he was hung up.

Q: What position does Yang Yu hold?
Zhang: Yang Yu was a head (a leader). He tortured Huang Tiecheng with an electric baton for a long time. When Zhao Shuang was on duty, he would torture him again with the electric baton, pour water on him, and then shock his private parts. He used the baton all over Huang's body, including his mouth, abdomen and head. After pouring water on the body of Huang Tiecheng, they would open up the window to let the wind blow directly on him. It was nearly November and the weather was very cold. The prisoners who supervised him closed the window when they got very cold. During the three days, he was deprived of sleep and his arms lost all feeling from the hanging. Therefore, the prisoners let him down, forcibly revived the feeling in his arms and then hung him back up again.

Q: How high was he hung?
Zhang: He was standing straight up.

Q: With his arms and legs separated?
Zhang: Yes, hung with the handcuffs on...

Q: Hung on two sides of a bunk bed.
Zhang: Yes, hung on a bunk bed and tortured for three days. They continuously beat him. As a result, he could not eat and vomited bile. Then, head Yang Yu thought his life was in danger, so he let him down. Huang Tiecheng fainted and was sent to the infirmary for a check-up. He was diagnosed with liver disease and was sent to the Wanjia Hospital. Huang Tiecheng was persecuted severely. Dong Wencheng and another Falun Dafa practitioner from Shuangcheng were hung up for several days, during which time they were suffered beatings. A practitioner named Shi Zuosheng also encountered severe persecution. He shouted, "Falun Dafa is good" one day. He was wearing a cotton shirt and underpants when he was pushed onto the iron chair. He was forced to sit on the iron chair for one day and night.

Q: Was it during the winter?
Zhang: It was in late January and it was very cold.

Q: He had to sit on the iron chair wearing cotton underclothes? The iron chair would be icy-cold in the winter.
Zhang: Yes, extremely cold, and they tied him with bandages.

Q: Where is Shi Zuosheng from?
Zhang: He is from Shuangcheng. When Zhao Shuang was on duty, he tortured Shi Zuosheng with two electric batons for around 30 minutes. He tortured his private parts and his face became swollen from the long periods of electrocution. Another time, Head Qiang was on duty and he entered the small cell. Then we heard the sound of someone bumping against the wall. I heard Qiang tell the people who supervised practitioner Shi Zuosheng to throw him against the wall until he was close to death. One of the prisoners kicked Shi Zuosheng's head with great force and did not stop until his shoes broke from kicking him. We could still hear the bumping sounds the next morning. Shi Zuosheng was protesting and his head was bleeding. They sent him to the infirmary. When the infirmary released him, Zhao Shuang tied Shi Zuosheng to a bed for seven days. Shi became emaciated, vomited everything he ate and had frequent headaches. His body suffered great harm.

Zhang: The above are my personal experiences in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp. They are all facts. I hope fellow practitioners outside of China will send this footage to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the International Justice Committee's special court and other human rights organizations. I hope the kind-hearted people around the world can together stop this brutal persecution of kind Falun Gong practitioners in China. This is genocide of good people who follow "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." They are a benefit to society, causing no harm. Although I have experienced many tribulations, I won't give up "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Human beings need sincerity and kindness.

(Clearwisdom.net) On March 9, 2006, I went to Jiuzhan, planning to distribute several copies of "The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party," but I was arrested before I distributed any copies. I was in the residence apartment near Jiuzhan Paper Factory when the police came and illegally arrested me after receiving a tip.

A few policemen dragged me to the Jiuzhan Police Station. With a smile on my face, I started to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to the police. I said to the police, "I am a senior citizen that used to live in Jiuzhan. I returned to Jiuzhan today by bus for the purpose of clarifying the truth about Falun Gong." I continued, "The Epoch Times published 'The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party' in order to reveal to the public an endless litany of heinous crimes that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed since it took power in China. The CCP has killed millions of people. Worst of all, it has murdered by torture Falun Gong cultivators that followed the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." But those policemen refused to listen. They handcuffed me and took me back home. After ransacking my home and confiscating several of Teacher's photographs, Teacher's new articles and all the Falun Gong truth-clarification materials, they dragged me back to the police station.

The police stuffed me in a special iron chair and locked my ankles, wrists and torso to the chair. A policeman said, "You are an elder to me. As soon as you tell us who you get these materials from, I will release you right away without any fuss. Just say it. Take care of yourself. Forget about others. You don't need to suffer through this." I thought to myself, "I shall never give away any information to these depraved policemen. I shall never give them any chance to persecute my fellow practitioners." This special agent repeatedly threatened me to tell him the fellow practitioner that supplied me with these materials, but I ignored him. Eventually he gave up and left.

Next the chief of the police station entered the room with two policemen. The three of them were very drunk when they started to torture me. At the time I told them solemnly, "You must not inflict me with any torture!" The police chief said, "But I will! I will not only torture you, but also put you in jail after I am done with you!" I told them, "You have no power over me!" They asked, "Who does, then?" I replied, "Only my Teacher has power over me."

The police chief soaked a towel in a liquid drug and liquor. (The liquid drug turned milky white after coming into contact with the liquor.) They gagged my mouth and nose with the towel and tied my head to the back of the chair with a belt, with my head tilted upward. With my face facing up, they kept pouring the mixture over the towel. They didn't care if I was suffocating. I used my tongue to stop myself from swallowing any liquid. I repeatedly retched the mixture while they were force-feeding me with it. I almost choked on it during the process. They poured out almost an entire quart bottle of the liquid drug. I retched all over my clothes and the floor around the iron chair.

Next, the police started a new torture. The three of them each used a cigarette lighter to burn my fingertips and toes. Seven of my fingertips were badly burned. My left big toe was burned badly. My fingernails turned black. To this day my fingertips have not healed. They continue to discharge pus and blood. The pain is unbearable, but at the time of the torture the pain was even worse. I felt I'd be better off dead. I thought of the Fa at heart while shouting out loud, "Teacher! Save me!" The agony subsided a bit when I did that.

While some of them were burning my fingertips with lighters, others were shocking me with an electric baton and beating me with a very thick wooden club. When they finally became exhausted, the police dragged me to the ground from the iron chair. A policeman kept pulling my arms up from the back and kept my legs straight. The police chief produced a thick iron bar and laid it across my legs. Then he sat on top of the iron bar, adding a lot of weight on my legs. Words cannot describe the excruciating pain. Next, they pressed my upper body forward, put a chair on my back and had a policeman sit in the chair, forcing my upper body forward to the ground. Moreover, he pulled my arms up by force while sitting on my back. The pain was excruciating. Even to this day, my shoulders and arms are still in a lot of pain.

After a night of torture, the three of them still would not leave me alone. They tied me to the iron chair and cuffed my arms and legs to the chair. They did not untie me until the morning. The back of my hands became very swollen and my legs turned blue. I was unable to walk.

At around noon of the next day (March 10, 2006), the police transferred me to the Fengman Precinct Detention Center. At the detention center, I asked them, "What type of drug did you put in the liquor?" They replied, "It was a lethal drug." The police chief pointed at me and said to another policeman, "This is a good person." I questioned the police chief, "Since you know I am a good person. Why did you take me here?" He didn't answer.

I developed a fever. I felt cold and shivered. I felt pain in every inch of my body. The pain was unbearable. The liquid mixture that they poured over me burned my face in many places. My hair and my clothes were filthy from the vomiting. Since that day, I had severe cramps every day. The physician at the detention center diagnosed it to be caused by the drug. I was on medication for about two weeks to discharge the poison out of my body. Afterwards, the cramps stopped. I survived the poisoning, but I felt a lot of pain all over my body. I became muddleheaded. For about two weeks I was bedridden. The warden of the detention center and the physician notified Jiuzhan Police Station to take me home. However, the police from Jiuzhan lied to both the detention center and me. They told the detention center that they were taking me home, but in fact they transferred me, as well as three fellow Falun Gong practitioners, to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City.

At the time I sent forth righteous thoughts, refusing to acknowledge any of the old forces' arrangements or the old forces themselves. I begged for Teacher's help to reinforce my righteous thoughts and to help me escape from the evil's den as soon as possible. I refused to cooperate with the police. I told them, "I did not commit any crime. It is you that have committed crimes. You are persecuting me and you are now trying to throw me into a forced labor camp. I refuse to enter such a place. You are the criminals. It is you that should be locked up." However, they dragged me into the forced labor camp by force.

Once in the forced labor camp, I started to expose the police's crimes. I said, "The Jiuzhan Police Station almost killed me. They tried to kill me by force-feeding me with a mixture of liquor and poison. Moreover, they burned my fingers with lighters. They have inflicted excruciating pain upon me. They persecuted me. They are the criminals." An official at the forced labor camp inspected my fingers and saw that they were terribly burned and that my fingernails were black. She declared right away, "We cannot take her. She must be released right now." However, the police from Jiuzhan Police Station refused to give up. They dragged me somewhere with no one else present and started kicking and cursing at me while declaring fiercely, "I cannot put you in there now, but I will give you hell!"

In order to put me into the forced labor camp, they devised a scheme. They took me to a public security hospital in Changchun City and brought me to the emergency surgical center. They asked the physician to guarantee in writing that I was fit enough for labor education. Once they obtained a guarantee, they brought me back to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp. It was already after 6:00PM when we were at the camp. Everyone had left work, so they had to make some phone calls to ask the admissions official to come back. She looked at the doctor's note and inspected my hands again. She said, "No. She will develop infections in her hands, which will affect her ability to perform labor. We cannot take her." The police from Jiuzhan Police Station pleaded with the admissions person for a long time, but she was very determined not to take me. Eventually, they gave up and brought me back to the police station. I felt cold and was in a lot of pain. They kept me in the police station until midnight.

Jiuzhan Police Station in Jilin Economic Development District
Tel: 86-432-3058487
Address: Jiuzhan Street, Jilin City, Jilin Province 132101
Police Chief: Mr. Li Ruifeng
Deputy Police Chief: Mr. Ling Yunfeng
Other involved policemen: Ma Wanshen, Ju Songmou, Wang Jian, Yang Mingyu and Feng Mingyuan

Public Security Branch in Jilin City Economic Development District
Address: Jiuzhan Street, Jilin City, Jilin Province 132101
Tel: 86-432-3054110
Police Chief: Mr. Li Xinhe
Political Committee Member: Mr. Cao Qingwei
Deputy Police Chief: Mr. Tang Gang

Jilin Province Procuratorate: 86-431-7632000
Jilin Province Judicial Hall: 86-431-2799382, 86-431-2797739

(Clearwisdom.net) Because I didn't give up my belief and firmly believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," I suffered all kinds of tribulations. I was close to death several times due to Jiang's regime's persecution. In 1999 I was illegally dismissed from my job. I was locked up many times. My original happy family was destroyed. Then I opted to become homeless to avoid further persecution.

Obtaining Dafa, I was freed from disease

I was a person who was formerly tormented by many diseases. During the 1998 Lunar New Year I got into a car incident, which made things even worse for me. I lost hope in everything. In June 1998, a friend gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun. After that I began to study the Fa and do the exercises. A miracle happened several months later. All my diseases disappeared without a trace. The pain disappeared completely. I could walk so fast on my injured legs that I felt as if I were flying.

I went to Beijing twice and was tortured so badly that the bones showed through the skin of my feet

Just when I was immersed in happiness, on July 22, 1999, the media stopped all other programs and broadcast only one program all day long, slandering Falun Gong. On September 20, I took the train to Beijing, intending to tell the government my experiences of how I benefited from studying Dafa.

I was shocked as soon as I arrived at the Appeals Office of the State Council in Beijing. The People's Appeals Office had already become an arrest site. Police officers were aggressively arresting practitioners. I couldn't approach. Helplessly, I returned.

On October 25 I once again went to Beijing. Just as I arrived at Tiananmen Square, several police officers walked toward me and tried to arrest me. I asked, "What are you trying to do?" They said, "We want you to curse the Falun Gong Master. Do you dare to do so?" I said, "I don't even curse or beat anyone when I educate my son!" They said, "She is a Falun Gong practitioner!" They pushed me onto a police car and sent me to Miyun Prison.

There, several policemen pushed me to the floor and put me in shackles and handcuffs that weighed about 30 to 40 pounds and were covered wih rust. I was handcuffed behind my back. The vicious policemen took off my shoes. They dragged me to the yard covered with cobblestones and forced me to walk circle after circle wearing only pantyhose without shoes. When I had walked for several hours I really couldn't walk anymore. The policemen then came and dragged me by my arms and ran around the yard, with my legs bouncing off the ground. Because I was exhausted from walking for so long, I was unable to protest the torture. They stopped when they were too tired to walk. My pantyhose was by then torn and my legs were chafed. The handcuffs and shackles had cut deeply into the flesh and my skin had become a mixture of flesh and blood. In spite of this, they did not remove the handcuffs or shackles and kept them in place for six days. When I was sent back to the Jilin City Detention Center, my feet were so injured that the bones showed through. It hurt as badly, as if someone had cut me with a knife. I had difficulty walking for more than six months.

On February 15, 2000, when I was sharing Fa study experiences and cultivation understandings with other practitioners, I was again arrested. I was sent to the No.1 Detention Center in Jilin City. The police there ordered the criminals to monitor us. They prohibited us from talking or doing the exercises. I was punished twice with having to squat for long periods of time. I was forced to squat for more than 10 hours once. My legs were swollen and I couldn't stand. I went on a hunger strike. On the sixth day the police force-fed me. A criminal told me, "I made the corn paste. A half bag of salt was added to two handfuls of corn flour." About eight people pushed me down and force-fed me. When they did so, my stomach began to hurt. My mouth was cut, and my stomach was in such pain that I couldn't stretch my back. I couldn't eat normally for a long time.

Darkness in the forced labor camp

On March 8, 2000, I was sentenced to a one-year term in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun. Seven practitioners and I were arrested at the same time, including Wang Rui, who was just 18 years old. Once we were sent there we were locked in a solitary cell.

Policewoman Hou Zhihong, who was in charge of the newcomer's team in the No. 4 Brigade, screamed, "Stand up! I'll tell you that no exercising is permitted in the forced labor camp. If you do the exercises, these things are waiting for you!" She then took out electric batons, straps, handcuffs and other instruments of torture. She said, "Do you see these? There are still some things that are even more terrible. I will choose to use them according to your attitude." We were forced to sit on benches every day, with no talking or moving. We were forced to sit that way for more than 10 hours a day. Later we were forced to do slave labor, as least 17 or 18 hours a day. Sometimes they let us sleep only two or three hours. If we worked a little slower, they would either beat or verbally abuse us.

Because of the camp officials' illegal tactics, more than 10 practitioners held a hunger strike and requested to be unconditionally released. The camp authorities had us force-fed brutally. The guard said to me, "You are the first!" They pushed me on the bed and inserted a long rubber tube into my mouth to my stomach. After a long time the corn paste just couldn't be poured in. I was suffocating and couldn't take a breath. I broke loose and sat up, out of reflex. Realizing that I would die unless I did so, I quickly pulled out the tube. I was completely exhausted, however, and coughed constantly. After that, I often coughed and vomited blood.

On May 13, 2000, the practitioners locked up in the No.4 Brigade held a group hunger strike to protest our illegal detention and persecution. This time the officials escalated the persecution against us. Administration Chief Yue Jun and others held electric batons and bound the practitioners undergoing hunger strikes to a metal wire bed. They shocked the practitioners' mouths, necks and entire bodies while force-feeding them. The metal wire bed bounced up, along with the practitioner's body. Sparks flew everywhere. The sounds of the electric batons, cries, shouts, and sounds and smell of vomiting filled the hallway of the health care building. It was a miserable sight. Yue Jun then walked up to me and said, "I only recognize you. I will start with you today!" They kept shocking me for a long time. Immediately, big blisters rose on my body and neck. My wool sweater was burned. She still wouldn't stop. She took off my sweater, re-bound me to the metal bed, and shocked me again for a long time. The last thing I remember was darkness before my eyes and intolerable pain.

In August 2000, policewoman Zhang Guimei said that she would use a different technique on us. She ordered several practitioners who didn't renounce Dafa to go to a small storage room, where she forced us to sit on the ground in the lotus position for eight hours every day. Our hands were put behind our backs and we were prohibited from moving. Policewoman Li Xiaohua said, "Whoever moves will be shocked with a big electric baton!" We were forbidden to use the restroom. All of us suffered from blood blisters on the feet. Some vomited. The extreme pain made us hover between life and death. When Ms. Wang Xiufen moved a little, she was dragged forward and kicked and beaten by several brigade leaders. Then she was forced to continue to sit for three days. Zhang Guimei threatened, "The state gives us a death quota! I will first use that on you three," which meant Wang Xiulan, who was eventually persecuted to death, Jin Min, and me.

By the end of November 2001, I had been locked up for ten months beyond my term.

Newly arrested practitioners were constantly sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp . The authorities used violence on steadfast practitioners. They were forced to stand for several days in a row, deprived of sleep, bound to a bed, and shocked with electric batons. One day Zhang Guimei stared at me and said, "As soon as the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee closed the meeting, they issued new documents. We will send all of you that don't 'reform' to the northwest region where there are no signs of human habitation. You will have no way to come back. You will die of hunger or cold!"

They subjected the newcomers to violence on a daily basis to force them to "reform." Seeing this pained my heart.

On November 30 I again held a hunger strike. I put forward three requests: 1. Stop violating the law while executing the law, meaning, stop the violent persecution of practitioners using electric batons and other instruments of torture. 2. No term extensions. The forced labor camp officials have no right to extend victims' terms at will, which is disobeying the law. 3. Release all the Falun Gong practitioners who are "illegally imprisoned."

After I finished stating my request, brigade leader Guan Wei said, "It's impossible! When are you going to eat?" I replied, "If you don't promise me, I won't eat."

On the third day of my hunger strike they force-fed me as a means of persecution, not to save my life. Several people pushed and held me down and inserted a rubber tube into my nose. I coughed badly and couldn't breathe. They tried to insert it into my nose but it came out of my mouth. I had a severe nosebleed and vomited a large quantity of blood. They didn't care about my life and said, "No matter what happens, we have to insert it!"

It frequently happened that the tube needed to be inserted five or six times. I was nearly suffocated several times. In fact, even if the tube were inserted, they wouldn't feed me many things. They knew that it wouldn't help anything, but they had to force-feed me twice a day. Each time after they force-fed me, I was exhausted and felt that I had had a narrow escape from danger. I clearly knew what the torture of force-feeding meant. I already was mentally well prepared: I'm still alive today, but I might lose my life tomorrow. They saw that they couldn't change my mind. On the eleventh day they decided to send me to the police hospital.

The above incidents are only part of what I've experienced and witnessed in the forced labor camp.

The police hospital

Before they sent me to the police hospital, the forced labor camp authorities extorted 2,000 yuan from my younger brother. On December 9 the camp administrators, guards, and doctors sent me under escort to the police hospital. They threatened me all the way to the hospital, "Didn't you refuse to eat? You thought that the forced labor camp was bad. After you get to the police hospital, you will see that they have plenty of methods to punish you!" Wang Kefei was tortured to death the end of 2001 and died in that police hospital.

The guards bound me to a bed with hand and foot rings. I could only lie down and couldn't move, not even a little. They then took a very thick rubber tube and inserted it into my stomach through my nose. Because the tube was too thick, they attempted to insert it several times but still couldn't succeed. It made me cough violently. The guards didn't care about my life and forcibly inserted the tube into my nose. They tortured me for a long time and finally succeeded in inserting the tube. I had broken out in a sweat and was exhausted. They said, "Let's continue!" They then inserted a catheter. My body was shaking from the pain, and the tube in my nose kept me from breathing properly.

It was extremely painful, and death was a blink away. At night, saliva kept running into my mouth, but I could not take care of myself because of the bindings. Sometimes when I could not spit I felt almost suffocated. They had inserted the tube but did not feed me. They kept the tube constantly inside me as a form of abuse, keeping it inserted so long that my throat was swollen and I coughed continually. Since nobody was taking care of me and I was tightly cuffed to the bed, I could only turn my head to the side when I had to spit. My face and body were covered in filth. When the catheter leaked and urine spilled onto the floor, the criminal detainees cleaned the floor with my cotton pants while cursing at me "for was polluting the ward." During the day they were too disgusted to be around me and stayed in other rooms. Before they left they would leave the windows open. It was December, the coldest month of the year and this was in northern China. I only had my underwear on. The mattress was wet, and the quilt covered me only up to my chest, and yet I couldn't move. Pain, cold, physical abuse, and insults came together. Every day I suffered in great misery.

The criminal in the same cell told me, "I've been here for more than a year. I've already seen a lot of things. How about Yu Lixin? She was from the city government, but she was still tortured. Later, nobody took care of her and they abandoned her in the hallway!"

After I returned home I heard that Yu Lixin underwent a hunger strike for four months in the police hospital. Nobody took care of her there, either. It was the hospital rule. Later they force-fed her. The catheter broke and left her soaked in urine. Feces accumulated so much that it touched her hair. Bedsores covered her whole body. She died on May 4, 2002 from the torture.

On the fourth day the camp authorities were afraid that I might die and they would have to take the responsibility. They let my younger brother take me home. Finally I left the evil den. After only four days in the police hospital I developed the profound opinion that this hospital was not for curing illnesses or saving lives, but for intensifying the abuse and torment of people under the persecution.

The above incidents are only part of what I had to endure under the persecution. Jiang's regime is so vicious and inhumane. Their crimes are too numerous to record. But none of the difficulties and hardships could shake the kind and righteous people's belief in Dafa and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance."

(Clearwisdom.net) Since August 2005, Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp in Beijing has intensified its persecution of Dafa practitioners. Practitioner Guo Zhenge was tortured until he became muddleheaded. Gao Changze, Zhang Qingshan, and Wang Jiping were viciously beaten. The guards even put drugs in practitioners' food in order to "transform" them. The following are partial accounts of the persecution of practitioners in Tuanhe Force Labor Camp.

1. "Sandwiching"

The most common tactic that the guards used is to order inmates convicted of theft or drug abuse to monitor the practitioners. In Team III, guard Yin Hongsong was the most vicious. Sometimes one inmate monitored one practitioner, but more often than not two, and sometimes even four inmates monitored and sandwiched one practitioner. The practitioners would be placed under close monitoring around the clock, completely losing their personal freedom. Moreover, they were frequently beaten and verbally abused, which caused them bodily and psychological harm.

2. Vicious Beatings

The guards entice the inmates with sentence reduction, privileges to buy food or order dishes, and at the same time intimidate and threaten them to persecute practitioners. Practitioners Gao Changze (a 60-year-old farmer in Huirou City), Zhang Qingshan (close to 40 years old), and Wang Jiping (30's) were physically attacked and verbally abused by the inmates.

Guard Yin Hongsong beat practitioner Xing Baoxiang to the ground and claimed that he fell due to high blood pressure. Guard Li Wei also beat Mr. Xing.

3. Starving practitioners and not letting them use the restroom

For those practitioners who refuse to be "transformed," the guards often do not give them enough food. They are only given a steamed bun and a small amount of vegetable soup. They are often not allowed to drink water or use the restroom.

One practitioner was held in a storage room. He was not allowed to go to the restroom and was forced to urinate on the ground. When a practitioner goes to the restroom, he is often held by the inmate by the collar and the arm.

4. Sleep Deprivation

The guards often keep the practitioners up until very late at night, and sometimes not let them sleep at all. When they do let the practitioners go to sleep, they often poke at them from time to time to disturb them. In the winter, they keep the windows wide open when the practitioners are sleeping.

Practitioner Guo Zhenge (close to 50 years old, a farmer in the Beijing suburbs) has been deprived of sleep over a long period of time by guards Gao Jianguo and Li Weichang, and is now mentally disoriented.

5. Lacing drugs in food and savage force-feeding

Practitioner Gao Changze often called out "Falun Dafa Is Good" while being tortured. The guards ordered the inmates to gag him with a mop. Guard Li Wei secretly put drugs in his food.

Some practitioners went on hunger strikes in protest. The guards ordered the practitioners to pay for the cost of their force-feeding. They also forced the practitioners to do hard labor.

6. Confinement

Guards put the steadfast practitioners in a small room and have the inmates watch over them and beat them. When the practitioner appealed to the authorities, the guards would collude with the inmates and said that they were not aware of any beatings taking place.

7. Sitting in a child's chair

The guards force the practitioners to sit in a small child's chair. They force the practitioners to sit still and hold a piece of paper in between their legs. The sitting can last half a day, a day, or even weeks at a time. Practitioners are beaten if they move at all.

8. Slave labor

The guards force the practitioners to do slave labor to make money for the guards. The labor includes braiding hair for wigs, making unsanitary tourniquets, constructing advertising products, making pieces of hardwood floors, packaging DVD's, and other forms of manual labor.

9. Covering up the truth

Sometimes the guards conduct an "audit" to cover up their crimes. They would have some inmates fill out surveys but only pass them out to the ones that would give favorable feedback. Occasionally they would ask everyone to fill out surveys, but those are used to determine who is to be subjected to brainwashing.

I hope that all people of conscience can pay attention to the harsh persecution against the practitioners in China. The Chinese Communist Party has utilized the entire nation's resources to persecute innocent Falun Gong practitioners. They have written the darkest chapter in China's history.

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In late February of 2006, Zhang Mingqian and Wang Wei, director and deputy director of the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp; Ma Jishan, Management Section Leader; Su Jing, leader of the Masanjia Women's Second District (the so-called "Thought Education School"); Wang Naimin from the Political Committee; Li Mingyu and Xie Chendong, Leader and Deputy Leader of the First Large Team; as well as Li Mingyu's husband, Liu Yong, Section Leader of the Masanjia Labor Camp Protection Section, jointly subjected all persevering practitioners "illegally imprisoned" in the First Large Team to torture. Their methods included handcuffing, beatings, and forcing the practitioners to sit on stools for long periods of time. Each practitioner also had her prison clothes forcibly put on by at least three or four male guards. Those who refused to submit were brutally beaten.

Practitioners Ms. Sun Suxiang, Ms. Yuan Shuzhe, Ms. Yang Baoying, Ms. Qiu Li, and others were all brutally beaten. Among them, Ms. Sun, Ms. Qiu, Ms. Huang Sumei, Ms. Liu Guiyuan amd Ms. Zhang were confined to small prison cells to be persecuted. In order to resist the persecution, Ms. Qiu Li and Ms. Liu Guiyuan went on hunger strikes. On March 22, 2006, Ms. Qiu, Ms. Liu, and Ms. Huang Sumei were moved out of their individual small cells and imprisoned in three empty houses in the First Large Team. Other practitioners imprisoned in these empty houses include Ms. Zhou Hua, Ms. Meng, Ms. Guiqiu, Ms. Yuan Shuzhe, Ms. Xie Xinying, and others. In order to resist the persecution, they have all begun a hunger strike.

From 6 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. police guards handcuffed these practitioners and forced them to stay in a squatting position almost every day. The pressure on the practitioners' hands often resulted in numbness and swelling. Some of their hands and legs became frozen. When practitioners are asked to stretch out their hands, they have to stretch their hands out straight or diagonally in the air. Sometimes the guards force the practitioners to squat down for long periods and don't allow them to stand, a very inhumane form of persecution. All this is done while they are handcuffed to bed frames, unable to move.

Ms. Qiu Li, Ms. Liu Guiyuan, Ms. Huang Sumei, Ms. Meng Guiqiu, and Ms. Zhou Hua were not allowed to wash themselves or even to change their clothes for a month. They were be handcuffed everyday, even when they went to sleep at night. On April 10, they were transferred out and illegally detained in the Third Division of the Masanjia Labor Camp Women's First District's First Large Team. For refusing to wear prison uniforms in the Third Division, they were brutally beaten many times by criminals Wang Liying and her gang. Much of their hair has been pulled out. Even though the Team Leader Sun Mei was present, she refused to stop the criminals from torturing the practitioners.

Currently, Ms. Qiu Li is still on a hunger strike. She has been force-fed everyday and given injections, which cost 20 yuan per bottle. They are force-fed corn porridge, salt, an egg, and small amounts of sugar, yet it costs 20 yuan each time. Another practitioner undergoing hunger strike is Ms. Jiang Chunxia from Dalian City. Ms. Jiang has already been persecuted to the point where she cannot walk, while Ms. Qiu Li can only stumble. Both of these women have become severely emaciated.

Other practitioners imprisoned in the Masanjia Labor Camp include Ms. Wang Xiuyan (Benxi City), Ms. Qu Shumei (Dalian City), and Ms. Xin Shuhua.

Masanjia Labor Camp First Major Team Leader: Sun Mei
Reeducation Staff: Zhang Jun
Division Leader in charge of Ms. Qiu Li: Chen Qiumei

(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Ms. Li Xiaoyu persisted in her belief in Falun Dafa. She was illegally sentenced to 10 years in prison. She is currently extremely weak and cannot care for herself unassisted.

(Photo of Li Xiaoyu)

Ms. Li, 36 years old, used to be a teacher at the Jiefangbeilu First Elementary School. Since becoming a Falun Gong practitioner in 1997, she did everything according to the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." She was very attentive to her teaching job, and her colleagues considered her to be a top teacher. Teachers at her school said that the students in her class had the best discipline and moral character.

Agents from the Lianxin Police Station in the Jinjiang District of Chengdu City arrested Ms. Li in April 2002 when she was at a Falun Gong materials production center. Two other practitioners were arrested at the same time. They were Mr. Zhao Yong, 35 years old, who lived at Group One, Chen Village, Jingshan Township in Bazhou District, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, and Mr. Min Qinjun, 30 years old, who lived at #5 Gujinsi Road, Shaping Township, Ebian Yi Autonomous County, Leshan City.

In July 2003, Jinjiang District Court officials held an illegal hearing in which the three practitioners openly exposed Jiang Zemin's crimes in persecuting Dafa. They each received a 10-year jail sentence.

Ms. Li Xiaoyu was steadfast in Falun Gong cultivation and suffered from long-term persecution. The police frequently arrested and detained her. She lost her job and the right to live a normal life and was often harassed and intimidated by people from the Jinniu District Political and Judiciary Committee. The persecution even extended to her young son. Even a holiday gift, to which he was entitled, was withheld from him.

According to an insider, because she refused to perform any forced labor, Ms. Li endured very severe physical and mental trauma. Her face was disfigured and swollen. She lost quite a few teeth from violence. Ms. Li is extremely weak, and her situation is very critical.

Responsible persons in this case:

Chengdu City's Jinniu District Political and Judiciary Committee: #65 Shawan Road, Chengdu City 610031
Long Xingyu, Secretary, Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-28-86266390; 86-13808060117 (Cell)

Chengdu City's Jinjiang District Political and Judiciary Committee: Dacisilu Chengdu City, 610016
Hao Xiaofeng, Secretary, Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-28 -86753550

Western Sichuan Women's Prison: Dabao Village, Longquan Yiwenan Township, Chengdu City 610109
Yuan, Jail Education Section Chief: 86-28-84898233
Li, Prison Politics Branch Section Chief

Chengdu City's Jinchiang District Lianxin Police Station: Lianhua North Second Lane, Chengdu City: 86-28-84545602
Leng Qiuming, director
Chen Qingfu and Li Xu, police officers.
Chengdu Cao Jiaxiang Police Station: 68 Chengdu Ma-an Street, 610081
Li Huasong, police officer: 86-28-83345576

Chengdu City, Jinjiang District Court: 5 Chengdu Tianxianqiao South Road, 610021, phone: 86-28-84554377
Yang Yuquan, Chief Judge
Li Tong, Presiding judge: 028-84529065
Chen Jianqing and Chen Xiufen, jurors
Liu Husheng, clerk

Chengdu City's Jiefang North Road First Elementary School, 610081: 86-28-83330837
Liu Xingcheng, retired principal
Zhang Zhi, principal.

Sichuan Province's Dianzhang Law Firm: Luo Yuqin, designated attorney appointed by Jinjiang District Court for Ms. Li Xiaoyu

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhao Tingyun, 54 years old, was from Xinxiang City, Henan Province. On January 6, 2006, the police arrested her. Her home was then searched and her husband was arrested and detained, as well. Section head Qian from the Muye Police Branch of Xinxiang City led the police do this unlawful deed. At around 9:00 p.m. on January 15, at a detention center, Xu Qiang, head of the Monitoring and Supervision Branch of the Xinxiang Police Department, told Zhao Tingyun's husband that Ms. Zhao died between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. that morning. He ordered Ms. Zhao's husband to sign the autopsy authorization. Xu Qiang refused to let the family see the body first and threatened that an inspection would not be accurate 12 hours after death.

To seek justice in the death of his mother, Ms. Zhao's son, Liu Yan, has been to all of the law offices in Xinxiang City but no one dared to accept the case. He only option now is to appeal to the provincial capital. Here is his Letter of Appeal:

Appellant: Liu Yan, 26, son of Zhao Tingyun. Lives in the Bus Factory's residential community, Tielu West of Xinxiang City. Phone number: 86-373-2162149

Pleadings:
1. Investigate how my mother died
2. Uphold justice and punish the murderers

The Facts:

My mother, Ms. Zhao Tingyun, 55, was a retiree from the Xinxiang Bus Factory. On January 6, 2006, when she was visiting a friend, agents from the Hongqi Police Branch of the Xinxiang Police Department arrested and interrogated her in Dongfang Hotel in Xinxiang County. She was then detained with a charge of "disturbing the social order." That same day in the evening, Muye Police Branch section head Qian led more than 10 policemen to break into my parents' home to conduct a search. Later my father was arrested and sent to the No. 760 Factory guest house. He was illegally detained there for two days and three nights and then sent to the municipal detention center. At around 9:00 p.m. on January 15 in the detention center, Monitoring and Supervision Branch head Xu Qiang told my father that my mother had died between 4:00 and 5:00 am. that morning and ordered my father to sign the autopsy permission slip. My father did not agree to sign but agreed to discuss the issue after my mother's family viewed the body. Agent Xu Qiang didn't agree and threatened that the exam would be inaccurate because death had occurred 12 hours before. My father had no recourse but to sign the permission slip. They finally released my father the next morning.

At 9:00 a.m. on January 18, agent Xu Qiang came to my home and said the cause of my mother's death was "collapse from hunger strike." My mother was detained the afternoon of January 6 and was declared dead on the morning of January 15. How could she have died of collapse due to a hunger strike? We have many doubts. The officials then did not try to explain to or comfort us. In fact many people, including those from the Muye District municipality, the police department, and my mother's workplace, came to my home in turn to advise and intimidate us to sign the cremation permission, otherwise they would do it anyway.

We later repeatedly requested the written results of the autopsy report. Xu Qiang, who was in charge of the case, stated that the autopsy report was a legal document and the family was not privileged to receive a written copy but was only entitled to an oral report. Xu Qiang also intimidated us and said that the municipal procuratorial court and the police department's Discipline Inspection Committee had been involved and believed there were no violations.

To see my mother for the last time and provide a change of clean clothes for her, we had asked the related offices and persons in charge many times to permit us to do so. Finally, on January 27 we got permission. When we arrived at the funeral home, dozens of police were already there waiting for us. As it turned out, only four of us were permitted to see her body. To cover up the fact that my mother had suffered brutal beatings when she was alive, they already changed her clothes and covered her with a set of old-style, big, loose clothing. My mother's hair was messy. When we tried to put on makeup, we found congealed blood on the left side of her neck. There was a five centimeter-long wound behind her left ear and a strip of bloody bumps on the back of the head. A hunger strike could never have caused these injuries. They were wounds from being struck with a solid object. When we asked to see the original clothes my mother had worn, Xu Qiang hemmed and hawed and lied, and finally said to check with the Hongqi Police Branch. Since our visit to determine my mother's cause of death made the officials very uncomfortable, Xu Qiang refused many times to accede to our family's right to view my mother's remains again.

On February 23, the police department agents notified us to come see the autopsy report. It reported cavities in my mother's lung and concluded that long-term malnutrition had caused her death.

From what we saw, the cause of my mother's death was not what the report said.

First, before my mother was interrogated on January 14, she looked very normal. When she was sent back, she kept vomiting blood and moaning painfully. At night she experienced stiffness all over her body.

Second, if my mother's death was caused by "collapse from hunger strike," how are the wounds on her head and her neck to be explained?

Third, if lung cavities caused her death, as it stated in the autopsy report, it was the savage beatings that caused these internal injuries. Several hours before my mother died, she was interrogated and subjected to ruthless torture. It is likely that they subjected her to force-feeding.

The above facts are convincing evidence that it was not a hunger strike but the savage beating during interrogation or the force-feeding that caused my mother's death.

To find justice for my mother's death, I have been to every law office, but no one has dared to accept my case. I have no other recourse but to appeal to the provincial capital and hope that you can give me a satisfactory answer.

Appellant Liu Yan
March 26, 2006

May 6, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net) The thugs in the Lanzhou Women's Jail are cruelly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

Falun Dafa practitioner Lei Zhanxiang from Jinchang City, Gansu Province, was transferred to the Lanzhou Women's Jail on April 26, 2006. On the morning of April 27, as soon as Lei arrived, the policemen instigated two prisoners to beat her. They also deprived her of sleep for three days and nights and forced her to watch the brainwashing videos. Lei's face and shoulders was swollen from the beatings and her eyes became reddish. The jail even forced her to take unknown drugs. After taking these drugs the police forced her to protrude her tongue for an examination, forbidding her from moving or using the washroom. She suffered from abdominal pains after taking the drug.

The thugs, while forcing her to watch the relatives of Falun Gong practitioners slandering Master and Dafa, said, "1. If you do not transform upon the completion of your term, we will let you die inside the jail. 2. No bail will be granted to you till your death in the jail. 3. The insiders have labeled Falun Gong as being 'counter-revolutionary.' They do not dare to kill Falun Gong practitioners openly, but they will try to kill them secretly."

A fellow practitioner, name unknown, was persecuted to such an extent that she needed the support of other persons to walk. Despite this, the jail still denied her bail for treatment.

Chief of Lanzhou Jail: Yang Wancheng

Police officer from Lanzhou Jail, Division 7: Wang Fuhong

Lanzhou Jail Political Department director Zhang
Reconnaissance Design Institute of Gansu Jail Administration Bureau
Address: 44 Jingning Road, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, 8881081-3243

Deputy director of Lanzhou Police Department: Hu Yi

Chief of Chengguan Police Department: Wang Xiaoming, Deputy chief: Pang Zilai
Lanzhou Hospital of Gansu Jail Administrator Bureau
Address: 294 Dashaping, Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, 730046
Tel: 0931-8827321

Director: Zhang Cunliang
Zhang Jianghai: Liangzhou Police Department

Li Wei: Deputy director of the Political Section of Dingxi Jail

Wen Zhonghui: chief of Team 2 in the No. 2 Labor Camp in Gansu Province

Zhu Shouke: Deputy director of Lanzhou Police Department Jail Administration Tianzhu Jail of Gansu Province
Address: Mayingpo, Shimen Town, zip code: 733204

(Clearwisdom.net) Wang Xi, a college professor at Shihezi City Business College, Xinjiang, was illegally arrested on January 5, 2004. Two months later she was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and detained in Xinjiang's No. 2 Jail in Urumqi City. During the first two years in jail, Ms. Wang Xi's hands were handcuffed between the bunked beds and she was not allowed to go to bed until 2:00 a.m. every day. Then she was handcuffed again in the same way beginning at 4:00 a.m. Her health seriously deteriorated due to the long-term persecution. On May 10, 2006, Ms. Wang's family members went to the jail to see her, since according to the regulation set by the jail, there could be visits at three-month intervals. They arrived there very early, but did not get the permit until 11:30 a.m. Then a woman guard said they were not allowed to see her since Ms. Wang violated jail regulations during the Labor Day holiday. Ms. Wang's family pleaded with them, saying, "We live far away from here, so it is not easy to get here. Please let us take a look at her!" But the guard peremptorily said, "You can see her next time." Ms. Wang's family said to her, "That would be three months later, what kind of regulation did Wang Xi violate?" The guard responded impatiently, "You know what it is!"

Wang Xi was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor in 2001 and detained in Ulapo Forced Labor Camp.

In May of 2003, Wang Xi was released on medical parole. She lives a very difficult life because she got divorced and lost her job. So she asked to resume her previous work and sent a letter entitled "My experience of illegal arrest and forced labor during the last four years" to the responsible department to expose the inhuman treatment by the authorities. This included such things as brutal beating, handcuffing behind the back, sleep deprivation, forced feeding, and so on. Because of this, Wang Xi was arrested again on January 5, 2004 and sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in March of the same year. Wang Xi appealed several times but never got a response.

Currently, Wang Xi's family members are very much worried about her situation and her health.

Responsible institutions and persons:

Urumqi No. 2 Women's Jail
Wang Fang, about 30, woman, head of No. 9 Jail Division,
Li Peixin, about 30, woman, head of No. 9 Jail Division
Ma Ling, deputy director of No. 4 Jail Division, about 30

Xinjiang No. 2 Jail (Xinjiang Women's Jail)
East Keshi Road, Urumqi City, Xinjiang 830013
Deputy Political commissar: 86-991-6632707
Jail Administration Section: 86-991-6619963

Responsible person in Shihezi City for the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners:

Wen Jianbang, director of 610 Office, 86-13999736166(Cell) 86-993-7588535 or 86-993-2099399(Office), 86-993-2031788(Home)
Li Handong, deputy director of 610 Office, 86-993-2360221(Cell) 86-993-7588536 or 86-993-2066722(Office), 86-993-2822008(Home)

Yang Zhijie, deputy head of National Security Sub-Team: 86-13899528618(Cell) 86-993-2913021(Office), 86-993-2021486(Home)

Song Li, head of National Security Sub-Team: 86-13095091438(Cell) 86-993-2913241(Office) 86-993-2018137(Home)

Li Daozhong, deputy director of National Security Team, 86-13519924000(Cell) 86-993-2913241(Office) 86-993-2093261(Home)

Qiu Yanxiang, deputy CCP secretary, 86-993-2016469
Zhang Zushu, deputy Division commander of No. 8 Agriculture Military Division: 86-993-2012136

May 15, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net)

1. Ms. Shi Xizhi

Ms. Shi Xizhi lived in Apartment 402, Building No. 2, Yinfu Community Area, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. She was reported to police for practicing Falun Gong and was arrested at home in April or May of 2003. She was tried secretly and sentenced to four years in prison and detained in the No. 2 Prison of Yunnan Province.

Late at night on March 8, 2005, the prison called Shi Xizhi's daughter and informed her that Ms. Shi was in the Gongren Hospital, in critical condition. The next morning, when her family members arrived at the hospital, Shi Xizhi was already in a coma. She had been tortured and suffered from the persecution for a long time. Ms. Shi was unable to recover and died the early morning of March 17, 2005.

From the time Shi Xizhi was arrested until she died, her family members didn't know what happened to her during that time. When Ms. Shi was secretly tried and sentenced to prison, no one from her family was permitted to attend the trial. When they visited her in prison, there was always someone nearby to monitor them. Even when Ms. Shi was comatose in the hospital, the police still stayed around to monitor everyone. No one knows exactly how she suffered and died.

2. Mr. Lu Shilin

Mr. Lu Shilin, 69 years old, lived in Huangmei Town, Huangmei County. He was the gatekeeper for the county department store outlet. He lived alone in the outlet's courtyard. Since Mr. Lu began Dafa practice in 1995, he improved greatly both physically and mentally. He was regarded widely as a good man at the outlet. Since 1999, when the evildoers started to persecute Dafa, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) kept harassing him. His home was searched and his Dafa books were taken away. Mr. Lu was arrested and detained in the Huangmei Town Police Station and in the No. 2 Huangmei Detention Center several times. In 2004, he was sent to a brainwashing center in Wuchang City, Hubei Province and suffered a lot, both mentally and physically.

Early in the morning of March 10, 2006, some residents in the outlet's courtyard heard a loud sound like a "bang" in the yard and a person crying. Around 4:00 a.m., a driver found Mr. Lu lying face down on the courtyard ground. There was a lot of blood around. His hat and shoes were one meter away from his body. His relatives later found a big hole in his forehead. The details need more investigation.

3. Ms. Liu Suzhi

Ms. Liu Suzhi, 57, lived in Dangba Town, Bingquan County, Hebei Province. Before she practiced Falun Gong in 1998, she had multiple diseases, which all disappeared after she began the practice. Since 1999, when Jiang's regime started persecuting Dafa, Ms. Liu's family members didn't support her practice, causing her to be unable to regularly perform the exercises and study the Fa. In 2004, her old heath problems returned. She died on October 6, 2005.

4. Ms. He Weixian

Ms. He Weixian, 61, lived at an oil company base in Chongqing City. Someone threatened her in July 2001 for clarifying the truth. She decided later to leave home and go from place to place to avoid further persecution. On October 24, 2002, Ms. He was sent to the Maojiashan Women's Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing City, where they injected her with toxic substances that harm the central nervous system. She was in constant pain since then. On October 13, 2004 Ms. He was released to go home, but the persecutors kept harassing her. She died on April 24, 2006.

5. Ms. Wen Shuqiong

Ms. Wen Shuqiong, 68, lived at Chengbei Village, Wujing Town, Xinjing County, Chengde City, Shichuan Province. Before she practiced Falun Gong, she had many diseases including diabetes, nephritis, rheumatism, cholecystitis, cataracts and other ailments. For years she had to depend on medicine to sustain her life. Not long after Ms. Wen started the practice in 1996, her health problems disappeared miraculously. In March 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Dafa. She was arrested and sent back to Xinjing County. She was detained for 45 days and was fined 10,500 yuan. Her home was searched. On June 30, 2000, the local officials arrested Wen Shuqiong on the street. They were Chen Zichao and Chen Guihua from the Wujing Town government, and the head of Chengbei Village, Lin Jun. Ms. Wen was held in a detention center for 30 days. She was arrested again in January 2002 when she clarified the truth in Qinglong Town, Pengshan County. She was later sent back to Xinjing County, was fined 1,200 yuan and sentenced to two years of forced labor, to be served at the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp, Sichuan Province. In April 2002, Ms. Wen was released on bail for medical treatment. She suffered a lot during arrest and detention, and her health deteriorated. Ms. Wen Shuqiong died in April 2006.

6. Mr. Xu Yunzhang

Mr. Xu Yunzhang, 61, was from Beijing. In 1995, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and underwent surgery. The doctor asserted that he could live only for five years at most. In 1996, Mr. Xu began Dafa practice and recovered, becoming a normal, healthy person. He had appealed for justice for Dafa many times, including taking part in the "April 25" appeal in 1999. In 2000, local police agents detained Mr. Xu. For several years, he kept clarifying the truth to people in his area and suffered continuous harassment from the local residential committee, from agents of the 610 Office, and the police station. Mr. Xu's health deteriorated as a result of the high pressure and threats during the long-term persecution. He died on April 30, 2006.

May 14, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net)

1 [Chaoyang, Liaoning] Practitioner Mr. Zhao Hongli Persecuted To Near Death
2 [Hebei Province] Shijiazhuang City Finance Bureau Practitioner Mr. Jiao Shuchao Taken To Brainwashing Center
3 [Yitong County, Jilin Province] Practitioners Ms. Zheng Jianying and Ms. Lin Yazhen Forced to Become Homeless
4 [Guangzhou, Guangdong] Practitioner Mr. Wei Yingxin's Recent Situation
5 [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Zhao Xibo's Wife Arrested for Practicing Falun Gong
6 [Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province] Practitioner Ms. Guo Suying Arrested
7 [Beijing] Practitioner Ms. Hua Qiyun Arrested And Her House Ransacked by Police
8 [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Mr. Lu Zhaoxin Arrested
9 [Beijing] Practitioner Ms. Li Jinghua Taken to Gucheng Brainwashing Center
10 [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Mr. Bian Lihui in Critical Condition while on Hunger Strike in Protest of Persecution
11 [Dandong City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Mr. Zeng Qingtao Beaten by Prison Officers for Doing Falun Gong Exercises
12 [Jiamusi City, Hebei Province] Ms. Liu Guiying and Other Practitioners Unlawfully Detained
13 [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Yanzhao Cosmopolitan Press Publishes Slandering Reports to Shirk Responsibilities
14 [Laiwu City, Shandong Province] Mr. Qi Fuxiang, a Middle School Teacher from Gangcheng District, Arrested
15 [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Mr. Li Decai Unlawfully Detained
16 [Shangdong Province] Elderly Practitioner Ms. Liu Daying from Shengli Oil Field Taken to Brainwashing Class
17 [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Practitioners Ms. Xia Xiaoying and Ms. Zhang Liyuan Arrested
18 [Jilin Province] Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp Refused to Release Practitioners Mr. Li Yongjun and Ms. Zhang Xiuling
19 [Jiangsu Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Yingxia Arrested
20 [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhao Arrested
21 [Shenzhou City, Hebei Province] A List of Practitioners Detained Illegally
22 [Hebei Province] Three Practitioners Detained in Changli County Brainwashing Center
23 [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Practitioners Mr. Liao Heping and Ms. Cai Rufen Illegally Sentenced
24 [Hubei Province] Zhang Guoxiu, Director of the Huangzhou City Police Department, and Fan Congzheng, Head of the 610 Office, Arrested Two Practitioners from the Field of Education and Sent Them to the Provincial Brainwashing Center on or around April 15
25 [Tianjin City] Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp Coerce Family Members to Disgrace Dafa
26 [Shangdong Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Yumei from Shengli Oil Field Arrested
27 [Handan City, Hebei Province] Mr. Chang Xiwen from Fengfeng Mine Bureau Missing
28 [Hebei Province] Wang Dechun, with the No. 2 Iron-smelting Plant of Tangshan City Steel Company, Involved in the Persecution of Practitioners
29 [Yuci, Shanxi Province] Practitioners Ms. Liu Zhengfang, Ms. Zheng Jianmei, and Mr. Ma Meiju Unlawfully Held in Prison
30 [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Yanzhao Cosmopolitan Press Publishes Slanderous Article
31 [Tianjin] Additional Report on Practitioners Arrested in March
32 [Beijing] Fourth Grade Exercise Manual Has Contents that Slander Falun Dafa and Its Founder

1 [Chaoyang, Liaoning] Practitioner Mr. Zhao Hongli Persecuted To Near Death

Practitioner Mr. Zhao Hongli lived on Tienan Street, Yebaishou Town, Jianping County, Chaoyang, Liaoning Province. He was sentenced to eight years and serves in Panjin Prison Liaoning Province. He has been on a hunger strike for more than seven months. On April 27, 2006, his relatives were notified that his life was in danger but the prison authorities refused to release him.

Relevant personnel telephone:
Zhao Mengqing: 86-421-5637998 (Home), 86-13942712109 (Cell)
Zhang Rongxian: 86-421-5638391 (Home), 86-13998733116 (Cell)
Zhang Yawei: 86-13842755788 (Cell)
Local neighborhood director Wang Li: 86-421-5637385 (Office), 86-421-5637638 (Home)

2 [Hebei Province] Shijiazhuang City Finance Bureau Practitioner Mr. Jiao Shuchao Taken To Brainwashing Center

Practitioner Mr. Jiao Shuchao from Shijiazhuang was sent to the Hebei Provincial Capital Brainwashing Center by his work unit on April 25, 2006. Li Heping, the chief of the finance bureau, is responsible for this incident.

Shijiazhuang City Finance Bureau address:
216 Zhongshan East Road, Shijiazhuang City, zip code 050011
Office telephone: 86-311-86687713th, 86-311-86688598, 86-311-86689461,
Comprehensive division: 86-311-86688543, 86-311-86687642
Financial bureau chief Li Heping

Hebei Provincial Capital Brainwashing Center address:
Beicheng Road, Shijiazhuang City Yuan Shuqian, director: 86-311-87792624-8012, 8012, 8016

3 [Yitong County, Jilin Province] Practitioners Ms. Zheng Jianying and Ms. Lin Yazhen Forced to Become Homeless

On March 26, 2006, Yitong County practitioners Ms. Zheng Jianying and Ms. Lin Yazhen were illegally arrested, and their homes were ransacked by Han Jie and others from Yitong County National Security Brigade. They were held in the Yitong County Detention Center, where they went on a hunger strike to protest. They were released on the afternoon of March 30. It is said that the authorities from the National Security Brigade were planning to put them into a forced labor camp and only released them temporarily. They would be sent to a forced labor camp after approval from higher authorities. Ms. Zheng and Ms. Lin have been forced to become destitute and homeless to avoid persecution.

On the morning of April 25 at about 5:00 a.m., Han Jie led four police officers from Yitong County National Security Brigade to enter practitioner Ms. Zheng's home to arrest her, but they failed because she no longer lived there.


4 [Guangzhou, Guangdong] Practitioner Mr. Wei Yingxin's Recent Situation

Practitioner Mr. Wei Yingxin was arrested and had a court hearing on January 23, 2006. During the hearing, Mr. Wei stated firmly and righteously that he was innocent and that Falun Dafa had brought him countless benefits but no harm. The defense attorney also argued for his innocence and requested his release. After the court hearing, Mr. Wei was brutally beaten by the police. As a result, he was unable to take care of himself for 10 days. He has been held in No. 119 Warehouse of the Guangzhou Yuexiu District Detention Center.

5 [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Zhao Xibo's Wife Arrested for Practicing Falun Gong


Mr. Zhao Xibo lives in Fumaying Village, Meicun Town in the Fangzhi District of Weifang City. His wife was arrested for practicing Falun Gong. The time and location of the arrest are unclear. She is being held in the Meicun Local Police Department.

6 [Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province] Practitioner Ms. Guo Suying Arrested

On April 23, several persons from the village committee came to practitioner Ms. Guo Suying's home in Zhangjiakou City, Yanjiatun, and asked her to come out to talk with them. As soon as she walked out of her house, she was not allowed to go back in. Her home was ransacked. Now Ms. Guo's whereabouts are unclear.

7 [Beijing] Practitioner Ms. Hua Qiyun Arrested And Her House Ransacked by Police

Ms. Deng Xueyin, 65, and her daughter, Ms. Hua Qiyun, 35, live at Unit 103, 4th Gate, 6th Building, Anhui North Lane, Chaoyang District, Beijing. They have been firmly cultivating Falun Dafa. At 3: 00 p.m., on April 14, police illegally ransacked their home and arrested them. Presently they are detained in the criminal police crew preliminary hearing brigade and No.36 room of Chaoyang District Police Department in Beijing.

8. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Mr. Lu Zhaoxin Arrested

Mr. Lu Zhaoxin is from Dasiping Town, Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. On April 25, 2006, Zhao Yajun and other officers from the Dasiping Police Department unlawfully took Mr. Lu to the police department when he got off at Sifangtai Village Station. It was reported that informants turned him in to the police.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; area code: 413
Meng Xianbin, Director of Dasiping Police Department: 5583307 (office)
Zhao Yajun: 86-13941345093 (cell)
Zhao Lianshun, Party secretary of Xinbin County Political and Judiciary Committee: 5080087 (office)
Director of Xinbin County Police Department: 5080201, 5080202, 5080203, 5080204, 5080205
Zhao Yazhong, Head of State Security Unit of Xinbin County Police Department: 5080216 (office)

9 [Beijing] Practitioner Ms. Li Jinghua Taken to Gucheng Brainwashing Center

Recently, officials in Beijing started a new round of brainwashing sessions in Shijingshan. At noon on April 21, 2006, officers from the Bajiao Police Station and officials from the local residential committee broke into Ms. Li Jinghua's home, which is located at the border between Fengtai and Shijingshan. They arrested Ms. Li. It has been learned that Ms. Li is being held in Gucheng Brainwashing Center.

Zhu Wei, residential police officer: 86-13910563588 (cell)
Liu Yang, state security official: 86-10-68668715

10 [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Mr. Bian Lihui in Critical Condition while on Hunger Strike in Protest of Persecution

Telephone numbers of Lianjiangkou Prison:
Country code: 86, area code: 454
Prison Administration Section: 8816209
Pre-release Ward: 8816275
Education and Reform Section: 8816281
Accounting Section: 8816396
Office: 8816273
Officers on duty: 8816040
610 Office: 8816610
Ward: 8816350

11 [Dandong City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Mr. Zeng Qingtao Beaten by Prison Officers for Doing Falun Gong Exercises

Mr. Zeng Qingtao is being unlawfully held at the No. 9 Ward in the No. 1 Prison in Shenyang Prison Complex. He was recently beaten by Sun Fuqing, unit head of prison officers, for practicing Falun Gong exercises in the prison.

12 [Jiamusi City, Hebei Province] Ms. Liu Guiying and Other Practitioners Unlawfully Detained

On the evening of March 5, 2006, several officers from the Yingezhuang Police Station unlawfully searched the homes of practitioners Ms. Lu Guiying and Ms. Liu Guiying. The officers confiscated Teacher's portraits, Falun Gong books, MP3 discs, and other items.

On April 19, 2006, several officers from the same police station arrested Ms. Liu Guiying and Ms. Lu Guiying. The officers also arrested Ms. Wu Yuzhi, who was visiting the other two practitioners. The three practitioners were cursed, beaten and had their fingerprints taken before they were released.

Telephone number of the Yingezhuang Police Station: 86-315-3061485

13 [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Yanzhao Cosmopolitan Press Publishes Slandering Reports to Shirk Responsibilities

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Hong Fei, 21, was a college student from Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. On the evening of March 7, 2006, he died from the persecution. On April 25, 2006, the East Hebei Province Section of the Yanzhao Cosmopolitan Press reported in large bold type on page 10: "Shocking Death Case as a Result of [Practicing] Falun Gong," Section Editor Wang Jianxiong, Graphics Editor Zhang Jing. The newspaper made up outright lies to frame Falun Gong on its website. They tried to help police officers to shirk their responsibilities for the death of Mr. Hong and to poison the minds of the public who were not aware of the facts.

14 [Laiwu City, Shandong Province] Mr. Qi Fuxiang, a Middle School Teacher from Gangcheng District, Arrested

Mr. Qi Fuxiang, a teacher at the Gangcheng District No. 4 Middle School in Laiwu City, Shandong Province, was unlawfully detained on April 4, 2006. He remains in custody in Laiwu Detention Center in Beibu.

Mr. Qi, in his 30s, graduated from a university in Beijing. He was from Qijiangling, Huangzhuang Town in the Gangcheng District of Laiwu City. Officers from the Huangzhuang Town Police Station arrested him twice for his going to Beijing to appeal and for his determination to practice Falun Gong. He served three years in a forced labor camp, and he has continued his practice upon returning home from the forced labor camp.

15 [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Mr. Li Decai Unlawfully Detained

Wang Xianjun, who does not have a regular job, is an informant for a local police station. He called the Fendou Police Station, the State Security Unit, and the Yongxing Village Office and turned in Mr. Li Decai to the police around 9:00 a.m. on April 4. Mr. Li Decai is a practitioner from the Hulan District, Harbin City. During the arrest, Wang Xianjun broke two fingers. As a result, he asked the police to detain Mr. Li on criminal offenses for premeditated injury.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; area code: 451
Wang Jingguang, elder sister of Wang Xianjun: 88557558
Li Jingrong, commissioner and Party secretary of Yongxing Village: 57302020
Fendou Police Station: 57311057
Liu Fuqiang, director of Fendou Police Station: 86-13101511616 (cell)
Gao Yue and Xu Weidong, officers in charge of this case: 86-13091457444 (cell)
Chen Zhaolin, head of Hulan County State Security Unit: 57334774
Lu Wenxue, director of Hulan County State Security Unit: 57334774 (office), 57321546 (home)
Wei Qingzhi, director of Hulan County 610 Office

16 [Shangdong Province] Elderly Practitioner Ms. Liu Daying from Shengli Oil Field Taken to Brainwashing Center

Ms. Liu Daying is the family member of an employee of the Oil Field Construction No. 1 Company of Shengli Oil Field. She is about 70 years old. After she started to practice Falun Gong, she had a healthy body and harmonious family. On April 11, Wang Jichen, chief of Political Security Section of the Binxi Police Department, arrested her and ransacked her home with the excuse that she had a Falun Gong book. The next day, she was sent to the Supply Division of Shengli Oil Field Brainwashing Center. Since her family members kept on going to the brainwashing center and the Police Department to ask for her release, Chief Liu of the brainwashing center claimed that she would be released if her family paid 50,000 yuan.


The parties responsible for her arrest:Binxi Police Department of Shengli Oil Field
Chief of Political Security Section, Wang Jichen: 86-13654360560 (Cell), 86-543-3460388(Home)
Director of the Police Department, Zhang Dazhao: 86-13561599166(Cell)
Deputy director, Li Chungang: 86-13805434118(Cell)
Deputy director, Wang Chaoli: 86-13705430586(Cell)
Deputy director, Cong Enxing: 86-13792278885(Cell)

17 [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Practitioners Ms. Xia Xiaoying and Ms. Zhang Liyuan Arrested

Practitioners Ms. Xia Xiaoying and Ms. Zhang Liyuan from Kunming City, Yunnan Province, were arrested by police when they were distributing truth clarifying materials in Xiaohe Township in the suburban area of Kunming City.

18 [Jilin Province] Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp Refused to Release Practitioners Mr. Li Yongjun and Ms. Zhang Xiuling

Ms. Zhang Xiuling and Mr. Li Yongjun were taken to the No. 4 Team of the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp when they were clarifying the truth to the public. They were shocked many times by the guards with electric batons because they refused to give up Falun Gong. Ms. Zhang was beaten by guard Liu Zhiwei so severely that she had some difficulty walking. Both of them were supposed to be released on April 17, 2006, but when their family members tried to pick them up that day, the guards refused to release them.

19 [Jiangsu Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Yingxia Arrested

Practitioner Ms. Wang Yingxia from Jiangsu Province is 32 years old. On the night of April 24, 2006, she was arrested by the police officers from the Shipai Township Police Station in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province. The details are unknown.

Relevant phone numbers:

The Shipai Township Police Station: 86-512-7681168
Director of the police station Zhang Huixing: 86-512-7681168 ext. 8001
Director of the Kunshan City 610 Office Guan Zuxing: 86-512-57700356, 86-512-56263893(Personal Handy-phone System), 86-13809063893(Cell)
The chief of the Political Security Sector of the Kunshan City Police Department, Li Donglin: 86-512-56269392, 86-13706269392(Cell)

20 [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhao Arrested

On the afternoon of April 27, 2006, the police officers from the Weizhou Road Police Station arrested practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhao while he was working. Prior to his arrest, the home of his practitioner mother, Ms. Wang Zhen, was ransacked. They continue to monitor his mother. The police also confiscated his van with which he made a living. The police even tried to arrest his wife.

21 [Shenzhou City, Hebei Province] A List of Practitioners Detained Illegally

A list of Dafa practitioners who are detained in the Hebei Province No. 4 Prison:

Mr. Zhang Liqun, more than 30 years old, was a physics teacher at Muzuo Middle School in Shenzhou Township, Shenzhou City. He was arrested at the end of September 2002 and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Mr. Xie Shuheng, over 20, is from Xilangli Village, Shenzhou Township, Shenzhou City. He was arrested in the late 2002 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Mr. Zhang Zhiquan is from Xiyangtai Village, Donganzhuang Township, Shenzhou City.
Ms. He Jinhuan, over 20, is from Wang Luosi Village, Huchi Township, Shenzhou City. She is detained in Shijiazhuang City Women's Prison.
Mr. Ke Xingguo is from Beijing City. He used to work as a driver in the Agriculture Ministry. Due to the persecution, he was forced to leave home and went to Shenzhou City. He was arrested by the local police and sentenced to seven years in prison.

Hebei Province No. 4 Prison:

Address: No. 3 Beierhuan West Road, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 131, ShijiaZhuang City, Hebei Province, zip code 050002
Warden Xiao Feng
Switchboard: 86-311-87751912
Consulting Phone number: 86-311-87751912 ext.6212

22 [Hebei Province] Three Practitioners Detained in Changli County Brainwashing Center

The Changli City Brainwashing Center, once discontinued, was reestablished again recently. Three practitioners are now detained there and being persecuted. In 2001, Ms. Guo Yuetong and her mother, Ms. Liu Aihua, were detained for 18 months. Now she and her parents have been arrested again.

Gao Jieli and Li Zengqiang are now in charge of the brainwashing sessions. The staff members have been replaced, and the relevant news has been blocked.
Gao Jieli: 86-335-2021006
The mother of Wanghui (he is in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong and the Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee): 86-335-2985377

23 [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Practitioners Mr. Liao Heping and Ms. Cai Rufen Illegally Sentenced

On June 2, 2005, officials from the Xinzhou District 610 Office and the State Security Team of the Xinzhou District Police Department arrested practitioners Mr. Liao Heping and Ms. Cai Rufen and ransacked their homes without following any legal procedures. When ransacking Ms. Cai's home, they injured her sister. Then they pretended to be nice and sent her to the hospital, so no family members were present when they ransacked the house.

On December 1, 2005, in the Xinzhou District Court, the two practitioners were on trial based on evidence either obtained by the police illegally or fabricated by the police. At the end of March 2006, the Middle Level Court of Wuhan City sentenced Mr. Liao to four years in prison and Ms. Cai to three years in prison. Now Mr. Liao is detained in the No.4 Division of the Shayang Forced Labor Camp, and Ms. Cai in the No. 1 Division of Baofeng Road Women's Prison in Wuhan City.

24 [Hubei Province] Zhang Guoxiu, Director of the Huangzhou City Police Department, and Fan Congzheng, Head of the 610 Office, Arrested Two Practitioners from the Field of Education and Sent Them to the Provincial Brainwashing Center on or around April 15

25 [Tianjin City] Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp Coerce Family Members to Disgrace Dafa

On visiting day at the labor camp, if practitioners' family members want to see their dear ones who are detained there, they must follow the instructions and write something to disgrace Dafa. The daughter of one practitioner refused to do so, and she was not allowed to see her father for more than a year.


Guards of the forced labor camp:
Wang Ju: 86- 13820294800 (Cell)
Zhang Peng: 86- 13752591853 (Cell)

26 [Shangdong Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Yumei from Shengli Oil Field Arrested

On April 14, 610 Office chief Zhao Xiucheng and police officer Dong Ning from the Binbei Police Department arrested practitioner Ms. Wang Yumei from Shengli Oil Field and sent her to the Jishu Brainwashing Center.

Relevant phone number:
Xia Baocheng: 86-546-8624832(Office), 86-546-8625037(Home), 86-13518665995(Cell)
Xu Tingde, secretary: 86-546-8778829 (Office), 86-546-8781658(Home)
Wang Zhiqiang, director: 86-546-8784770(Office), 86-546-8551737(Home), 86-13054622969(Cell)
The duty office of Jishu Brainwashing Center: 86-546-8773202

27 [Handan City, Hebei Province] Mr. Chang Xiwen from Fengfeng Mine Bureau Missing

Mr. Chang Xiwen, a welder from the Selection Sector of Kongzhuang Mine of the Fengfeng Mine Bureau, lives in Dongguanglu Village, Guanglu Township, Ci County. He has been missing since January 15. 2006.

28 [Hebei Province] Wang Dechun, with the No. 2 Iron-smelting Plant of Tangshan City Steel Company, Involved in the Persecution of Practitioners

Wang Dechun, the chief of the water supply workshop of the No. 2 Iron-smelting Plant, colluded with his work unit and arranged for the arrest of Ms. Zheng Xiuzhi, a staff member in the same plant. She was held in a detention center, a forced labor camp, and a mental hospital. She was released from the forced labor camp in 2002 but was not allowed to go back to her job.

Wang Dechun: 86-315-3702760, 86-13700355982(Cell)

29 [Yuci, Shanxi Province] Practitioners Ms. Liu Zhengfang, Ms. Zheng Jianmei, and Mr. Ma Meiju Unlawfully Held in Prison


30 [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Yanzhao Cosmopolitan Press Publishes Slanderous Article

On April 25, 2006, Yanzhao Cosmopolitan Press in Hebei Province published as top news on page 5 an article slandering Falun Dafa. It claimed that officers from the Haibin Road Police Station affiliated with Haigang Police Department in Qinhuangdao City had found two people who died from kidney and lung problems in the residential complex of a coal factory. The report stated that those two practiced Falun Gong. As a result, they did not seek treatment in time for their illnesses.

Reporter: Shi Wentong
Politics and Current Affairs editor of this section Wang Jiaxiong
Graphics editor Zhang Jing
Editors: 86-311-88631203, 86-311-88631209
Mailing address of Yanzhao Cosmopolitan Press: No. 86, Yuhuadong Road, Shijiazhuang City, Zip code:050013
Editors' office: 86-311-88631211, 86-311-88631204

31 [Tianjin] Additional Report on Practitioners Arrested in March

Practitioners Ms. Song Ying, Ms. Zuo Liping, and Ms. Li Huanu from the Tanggu District of Tianjin were arrested by officers in Tanggu District on March 11. On March 17, they were sentenced to forced labor, Ms. Song and Ms. Zuo for 18 months and Ms. Li for one year. The three practitioners are being held in the Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp in Banqiao, the Dagang District, Tianjin. Most female practitioners who were unlawfully taken into custody had been held at the Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp for persecution.

Officers took Ms. Li Huanu into custody as soon as she arrived at work. Officials of Tanggu Network Communications Bureau resorted to an implication policy and reduced the bonus of all employees in the development zone branch office of the sub-bureau in the hope that employees would harbor hatred toward practitioners and would participate in the persecution. Below are some telephone numbers of Tanggu Network Communications Bureau as well its sub-bureau (country code: 86; area code: 22):

Office of the Bureau Chief: 66888268, 66888366, 25896655, 25895600
Human Resources Department: 25893737
Data Center: 25892800, 25892700, 25895000
Jiefang Road Measurement Office in Tanggu: 25890112
Wang Junjie, development zone bureau chief: 25328511
Business contact: 25322000
Measurement Office: 25320112
Computer room: 25320999, 25320099

32 [Beijing] Fourth Grade Exercise Manual Has Contents that Slander Falun Dafa and Its Founder

There are slanderous remarks on page 30 of the second volume of the fourth grade Chinese exercise manual published by Longmen Press.

Address: No. 16 Huangchenggenbei Ave, Beijing
Telephone number: 86-10-64000246
Zip code: 100717
Editors-in-Chief Liu Hongwei and Liu Yuanxi
Assistant Editor-in-Chief Zhang Huajie

April 27, 2006

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1. [Zhangqiu, Shandong] Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Liyuan and Others Recently Arrested
2. [Yinan County, Shandong Province] Mr. Liu Hongquan Arrested
3. [Shanghai City] Ms. Wu Jingfang and Her Sister Wu Meifang Both Arrested
4. [Zibo City, Shandong Province] Ms. Li Aiying Arrested at Her Home
5. [Changde City, Hunan Province] Twelve Falun Dafa Practitioners Facing Trial on May 18, 2006
6. [Pingdingshan City, Henan Province] Persecution Facts in Pingdingshan City
7. [Huaihua City, Hunan Province] Ms. Zhang Yugui and Ms. Yang Guizhen Arrested
8. [Sichuan Province] Mr. Yang Zhi Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison
9. [Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Gan Jiejun Detained in Luohu District Detention Center
10. [Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province] Police Harass Ms. Zhang Shuchun at Her Home
11. [Dezhou City, Shandong Province] Ms. Li Xiu'e Arrested
12. [Yueyang City, Hunan Province] Three Practitioners Arrested
13. [Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province] One Older Practitioner Arrested
14. [Maoming City Guangdong Province] Additional Information about Mr. Li Qiaosong's Arrest
15. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Liu Li Arrested
16. [Shanghai City] Ms. Min Xiujuan, Mr. Hou Bo, and Ms. Mi Wenxiang Sentenced to Prison
17. [Chongqing City] Ms. Li Xiuying Arrested
18. [Nanchong City, Sichuan Province] Mr. Cao Chunqiang Arrested
19. [Chenxi County, Hunan Province] Practitioner's Home Ransacked
20. [Ruanling County, Hunan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Being Arrested and Their Homes Ransacked
22. [Chongqing City] Ms. Hong Qingxiu Arrested
23. [Macheng City, Hubei Province] Ms. Zhang Zihua and Ms. Xiang Jinping Arrested

1. [Zhangqiu, Shandong] Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Liyuan and Others Recently Arrested

On May 4, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Liyuan was arrested. Older practitioner Ms. Zhao Fengying from Dingwang Village, Zaoyuan Town, was arrested on May 11, 2006. Practitioners Ms. Sun Fanglan from Nan'gaofu Village and Ms. Zhang from Xiaozhuang Village were also arrested on May 11, 2006. On May 14, 2006, practitioner Mr. Lu Shoulu from Xiuhui Town was arrested.

2. [Yinan County, Shandong Province] Mr. Liu Hongquan Arrested

At around 11:00 a.m. on May 16, 2006, police officers drove a white car to Liujialing Village, Hutou Town, Yinan County. They stormed into Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Hongquan's home, arrested him, ransacked his house, and took away his notebook computer, two printers, and some truth clarifying materials.

Mr. Liu Hongquan had femoral head necrosis when he was a teenager. He was bed-ridden and could not walk. Their family spent a lot of money, but could not find a cure for him. Soon after he started cultivating Falun Dafa at the beginning of 1999, he could sit up and walk. He runs a small convenience store, and had a good life together with his parents. He was telling people that Falun Dafa is good, and how he personally benefited from the cultivation. Now his parents are very worried about him, and their store can not be operated normally.

3. [Shanghai City] Ms. Wu Jingfang and Her Sister Wu Meifang Both Arrested

On April 27, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Wu Jingfang and her sister Wu Meifang were both arrested when passing out truth clarifying materials in the Yiculianhuan Supermarket in Yanggaozhong Street. The police ransacked their homes and took away two computers, two printers, Falun Dafa books, and some materials. They have detained the practitioners in the Zhangjiang Detention Center located in Pudongxin District for over fifteen days. Their families went to visit, but were kicked out by guards who did not allow them to visit.

Ms. Wu Jingfang had severe heart disease and asthma, and had to take a long-term sick leave at home.

Another Falun Dafa practitioner from Puxi district is also detained together with them.

4. [Zibo City, Shandong Province] Ms. Li Aiying Arrested at Her Home

At around 10:00 a.m. on May 15, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Aiying from Liuquanxin Village, Zibo City was arrested at her home.

5. [Changde City, Hunan Province] Twelve Falun Dafa Practitioners Facing Trial on May 18, 2006

Relevant phone numbers:
Wuling District Chief Procurator Zhang Chuanjin (male): 86-13908417258 (Cell)
Court Office, 86-736-2563355
State Security Division head Wu Xiyong (male): 86-13007363397 (Cell), 86-13077233693 (Cell), 86-736-7221491 (Home)
State Security Division deputy head Huang Junhua (male): 86-1305404022 (Cell)
State Security Division Office, 86-736-7225121, ext.-3044

6. [Pingdingshan City, Henan Province] Persecution Facts in Pingdingshan City

On April 21, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Fu Minghui was arrested by policemen from the Pingdingshan City Tenth Mine Station (all male) Zhang Dakui, Hu Changjiang, Li Ming, Liu Fushan, Zhang Jianhua, and Wang Yanwei, and his home was ransacked. Mr. Fu Minghui is now detained in the Pingdingshan City Detention Center.

Practitioner Ms. Li Xiuzhi had escaped an arrest by policemen from the Ye County Department in Pingdingshan City.

Practitioner Mr. Wang Sanyun and his wife Wang Chunxia were both arrested by police from the Lushan County Department, and they are about to be sentenced to five years in prison.

On March 31, 2006, practitioner Ms. Chen Xiuzhi was arrested at her home by Xiangcheng County State Security Division head Ding Shuguang (male), policemen Ma Fei (male), etc., and has been sent to perform forced labor in the Xuchang City Labor Camp. Practitioner Ms. Qin Ke'ni was arrested and detained in the Xiangcheng County Detention Center in April 2006.

Persons and units responsible for mistreating Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Fu Minghui:
Security Office Policeman Li Ming (male), of Tenth Mine of Tian'an Corp, Pindingshan City, 86-13937553906 (Cell)
Tenth Mine CCP secretary Wang Xihai (male): 86-375-2741171
Security Office CCP secretary Zhang Dakui (male): 86-375-2741428 (Office)
Mining Bureau 610 Office head Lu Jie (male): 86-375-2722210, 86-13903902298 (Cell)

Persons and units responsible for mistreating Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xiuzhi:
State Security division head (also 610 Office deputy head, actively joined persecution) of Ye County Police Department Gao Fuzhong (male): 86-13703753186 (Cell)
Ye County Police Department deputy heads Li Chaoyang (male): 86-375-13937531999, and Fan Jianjun (male): 86-13837569888 (Cell)

Persons and units responsible for mistreating Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Wang Sanyun and his wife Wang Chunxia:
Lishan County CCP Committee, 86-375-5052314
Lishan County CCP Political and Judiciary Committee deputy secretary (also 610 office head) Lan Guosheng (male): 86-13603759912 (Cell). Another deputy secretary Gao Yixiang (male): 86-13937527690 (Cell)

Persons and units responsible for mistreating Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Xiuzhi:
Xiangcheng County State Security Division head Ding Shuguang (male): 86-374-3582955 (Office): 86-374-3583789 (Home), 86-13733650396 (Cell)

7. [Huaihua City, Hunan Province] Ms. Zhang Yugui and Ms. Yang Guizhen Arrested

On the morning of May 11, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhang Yugui and Ms. Yang Guizhen were both arrested when passing out truth clarifying materials, and they are now detained in the Xupu County Detention Center.

Xupu County Detention Center, 86-745-3223296
Xupu County CCP Political and Judiciary Committee deputy secretary Shu Hengsheng (male): 86-745-3328388 (Office), 86-745-3222679 (Home), 86-13337257898
Xupu County CCP Political and Judiciary Committee secretary Shen Zhaoping (male): 86-745-3323232 (Office), 86-745-3226158 (Home), 86-13762917333 (Cell)
Xupu County Police Department head Jiang Aiguo (male): 86-745-3323125, 86-745-3323123, 86-13707452351 (Cell)
Xupu County 610 Office head Zhou Ruchi (male): 86-745- 3323181

8. [Sichuan Province] Mr. Yang Zhi Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yang Zhi, 32, started cultivating in 1997. On October 19, 2000, he was arrested when passing out truth clarifying materials, and was sentenced to 14 months of forced labor. On June 2, 2005, he was arrested when working at the Pi County Sanguo Company and detained in the Pi County Detention Center. On March 9, 2006, the Pi County Court sentenced him to seven years in prison, and plan to send him to prison on April 26, 2006.

9. [Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Gan Jiejun Detained in Luohu District Detention Center

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gan Jiejun, in her 60s, is from Changsha City, Hunan Province and now lives in Changcheng Building Neighborhood, Futian District. She has been arrested and detained several times in the past years because she firmly cultivates Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.

In 2000, she was detained for one day in the Huali Police Station (now combined with Yuanling Police Station) because she was sitting and meditating in front of the Shenzhen Stadium.

In 2001, she served an extended one year forced labor term in the Baimalong Labor Camp in Hunan Province.

In 2003, she was arrested to be locked in the Xili Detention Center, but she went through brainwashing for six months and was then released due to high blood pressure.

In 2004, she was detained and then sentenced to three years forced labor. Due to her physical condition, she was released after eight months.

In early 2005, she was sent to Sanshui Labor Camp by guards of the Luohu District Detention Center, but she was rejected and released due to her physical condition.

On November 16, 2005, she was arrested when passing out truth clarifying materials at Honggui Street, Luohu District, and was detained in the Luohu District Detention Center for the past six months.

Relevant phone numbers:
Luohu District Police Department Political Security Office head Li Guang (male): 86-13510273233 (cell)
Luohu District 610 Office head Zhang Tan (male): 86-13922834463, 86-755-25666865 (o); deputy head, 86-13602533052 (Cell), 86-755-25666990, 86-755-25666663
Luohu District Detention Center, 86-755-25519220

10. [Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province] Police Harass Ms. Zhang Shuchun at Her Home

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Shuchun from Taishang Village, Xinzhuan Town, Zhaoyuan City has been forced to leave her home to avoid being arrested for the past five years because she has been brutally tortured for firmly cultivating Falun Dafa.

On the afternoon of May 4, 2006, policemen from Xinzhuang Town Station came to Ms. Zhang Shuchun's home to harass people, and asked for her photo when they heard that she has not come home in the past years with of the reason that she's "seeking help."

11. [Dezhou City, Shandong Province] Ms. Li Xiu'e Arrested

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xiu'e, 56, lives in Chenzhuang Street, Yankoudian Neighborhood, Decheng District, Dezhou City. On the early morning of May 17, 2006, she was arrested by policemen from Yankoudian Station when passing out truth clarifying materials.

12. [Yueyang City, Hunan Province] Three Practitioners Arrested

On May 13, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioners from Yueyang City, Ms. Ling Xuehui, Ms. Peng Xiaohui, and Ms. Zhao Qunlan were arrested by police officers from the Qianlianghu Town Station in Junshan District, Yueyang City.

13. [Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province] One Older Practitioner Arrested

On the evening of May 12, 2006, older Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao (first name unknown, gender unknown) was arrested when posting truth clarifying materials, and is now detained in Zhuozhou City, in the detention center.

14. [Maoming City Guangdong Province] Additional Information about Mr. Li Qiaosong's Arrest

In late February 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Qiaosong was arrested when visiting his family in Maoming City. He is still detained in Maoming City First Detention Center. On May 16, 2006, his family requested to visit him, but was refused

15. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Liu Li Arrested

On May 16, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Li, who lives in Baiguolin Neighborhood, was arrested. At around midnight on the same day, policemen from Jinniu District Department ransacked her home.

16. [Shanghai City] Ms. Min Xiujuan, Mr. Hou Bo, and Ms. Mi Wenxiang Sentenced to Prison

Under direction of the 610 Office, Jiading District Court recently sentenced Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Min Xiujuan, Mr. Hou Bo, and Ms. Mi Wenxiang to five and a half years, three years, and four years in prison respectively. The court did not allow their families to attend the trial.

Jiading District Detention Center: 86-21-59538808

17. [Chongqing City] Ms. Li Xiuying Arrested

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xiuying was recently released from the Yongchuan Prison, but she was arrested again in September 2005 when joining a Fa Conference. Her family was notified last October. Ms. Li Xiuying is now detained in the Liziba Detention Center. Her family requested to visit her many times, but they were refused.

18. [Nanchong City, Sichuan Province] Mr. Cao Chunqiang Arrested

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Cao Chongqiang, 33, lives in the Tenth Group, Eighth Village, in Banzeng Town, Shunqing District, Nanchong City. At around 8:00 a.m., on March 28, 2006, he was arrested in the Lanjun Drug Store by a group of policemen [including Longmen Town Station head Huang Longjun (male), deputy head Liao (male, first name unknown), and Gaoping District State Security agent Tian (male, first name unknown)]. They handcuffed him and even shackled his ankle, and said they were taking him to be interrogated at the Longmen Town Station. Mr. Cao was brutally beaten by Huang Longjun and another policeman (badge number 044717), causing his body to sustain many injuries. His family went to visit him in the Longmen Town Station, but they were refused, and no one knows exactly where he is now.

Longmen Town Police Station, 86-817-3586105
Longmen Town Legal Justice Bureau, 86-817-3586994

19. [Chenxi County, Hunan Province] Practitioner's Home Ransacked

In early May 2006, one Falun Dafa practitioner's home was ransacked, his Falun Dafa books were all taken, but he was not arrested.

Former Chenxi County CCP Political and Judiciary Committee deputy secretary, plus 610 Office head Yang Wenjun (male): 86-745-5230670, 86-745-5224743, 86-13973081208 (Cell)
Current 610 Office head Mi Changdong (male): 86-745-5230670, 86-13874551022 (Cell)
610 Office deputy chair Duan Qingyun (male): 86-745-5230670, 86-745-5222515, 86-13707457282 (Cell)
610 Office member Xiang Zhaoliang (male): 86-745-5230670
Chenxi County Police Department head Song Dafeng (male): 86-745-5232543, 86-745-5236685, 86-13907457321 (Cell)
Chenxi County Police Department deputy head Xie Jiuwen (male, in charge of persecution Falun Gong): 86-745-5232543, 86-745-5231598, 8613607415299 (Cell)

20. [Ruanling County, Hunan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Being Arrested and Their Homes Ransacked

In early May 2006, Ruanling County policemen ransacked Falun Dafa practitioners' homes, and arrested two practitioners. Their families have spent several thousand yuan each to bail them out.

Ruanling County 610 Office chair Xie Shaoyou (male): 86-13607453949 (Cell), 86-745-4266562, 86-745-4265650 (Office)
Ruanling County Police Department operator, 86-742- 4217800
State Security Division, 86-745-4217711
Government Office, 86-745-4222724
Ruanling County Detention Center, 86-745-4235555
Huaihua City State Security Division Office, 86-745-2350777, or 86-745-2354444, fax, 86-745-2352377
Social Stability Office deputy head Chen Shunzhong (male): 86-745-2353285

22. [Chongqing City] Ms. Hong Qingxiu Arrested

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Hong Qingxiu, 62, lives in Gongnengpo Family Housing of Shuangbei Special Steel Factory, Shapingba District, Chongqing City. At 11 a.m., on May 13, 2006, she was arrested when clarifying the truth to people in Jingkou Area. Her home was ransacked at 5 p.m. on the same day. She is still detained.

23. [Macheng City, Hubei Province] Ms. Zhang Zihua and Ms. Xiang Jinping Arrested

On May 16, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Zihua was arrested at her home located in Macheng City. Another Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Xiang Jinping, was arrested several days earlier when going to her mother-in-law's home in Songfu and clarifying the truth

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Mr. Hou Yinzhu Went Missing Two Months Ago

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Hou Yinzhu, 42, lived in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. One early morning, at the end of March 2006, he left home at 3 a.m. but never returned. There hasn't been any new information about him.

Ms. Hu Yulan Missing Since Six Years Ago

Practitioner Ms. Hu Yulan, in her 20s, lived in the Beipei District of Chonqing City and was a physical education teacher employed by the Chaoyang Elementary School in the Beipei District. In 2000, she was interrogated by the Beipei District 610 Office and has been missing since her release from the 610 Office six years ago.

Mr. Yao Jinheng Missing Since 2001

Practitioner Mr. Yan Jinheng, born in 1961, lived in the Dengzhuangzi Village, Qing County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. He used to be a CCP Qing County Committee worker, but his level and salary were reduced, and he was not allowed to work in the Committee because he practiced Falun Dafa. He went on vacation on May 1, 2001, and has been missing ever since.

Mr. Wang Wenqiang Missing Since 2003

Practitioner Mr. Wang Wenqiang, in his 30s, lived in Xiguanzhuang Village, Wulongtang Township, Cang County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. He went to Shijiazhuang City in 2003 to look for a job and has not been heard from since.

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Clues Pointing to Illegal Organ Transplants: The Liver Transplant Center in the No. 3 Hospital Affiliated to Zhongshan University in Guangzhou City could supply a liver and kidney within one day

According to news published on the internet version of the newspaper "Nanfang Daily" on a website of the Nanfang Newspaper Industry Group on May 20, 2006, the Liver Transplant Center of the No. 3 Hospital Affiliated to Zhongshan University in Guangzhou City found a matching set of liver and kidney in just one day.

(1) The No. 3 Hospital Affiliated to Zhongshan University supplied Ren Zhenchao with a kidney and liver within one day

Ren Zhenchao is 36 years old and is from Hainan Province. He was a victim of an incident that occurred in the No. 3 Hospital Affiliated to Zhongshan University, in which doctors gave patients shots of fake medicine that was produced by the No. 2 Pharmaceutical Company in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.

On May 16, the Specialists Team in the hospital made an urgent decision that they needed to transplant Ren Zhenchao's liver and kidney. According to a news report in the Nanfang Daily, Ren's blood type is "O". It is usually very hard to find an organ match for this blood type. Though his blood can be used as a univeral donor, his body can only accept O-type organs. In addition, both the kidney and liver had to come from the same donor.

According to this news report, "Only one day later, good news came from another province that a matching liver and kidney had been found." "At 6 p.m. on May 17, the liver and kidney arrived at Guangzhou by urgent air freight."

(2) Persons who participated in the operation

Chen Guihua performed the liver operation. Hong Liangqing, director of the Transplant Section, did the kidney transplant. Hei Ziqing, director of the Anaesthesia Section, performed the anaesthesia. Cai Changjie was the head doctor.

It took them 4 hours to do the liver transplant and then 2 more hours for the kidney transplant.

(3) Brief Description of the Liver Transplant Center of the No 3 Hospital Affiliated to Zhongshan University
Doctors at the center: Chen Guihua, Lu Mingqiang (Deputy Director), Yang Yang (Deputy Director), Cai Changjie, Xu Chi, Li Hua, Wang Genshu, Yi Shuhong, Zhang Jian, Zhao Hui, Li Minru, Zhang Junfeng, Jiang Nan, Wang Chun, Hua Xuefeng

Chen Guihua, Professor, Deputy Team Leader of the Chinese Organ Transplant Society, Committee Member of the Organ Transplant Society in Guangdong Province, Tutor of Ph.D. students, has experience of over 300 liver transplants in clinical surgery.

Address: 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou City
Post Code: 510630
Phone: 020-85516867 87595523
Email: info@organtranasplantaction.cn
Web: http://www.organtransplantation.cn/index.asp

(4) Brief Description of the Liver Transplant Section

Doctors: Chen Guihua (Director), Gao Xin (Deputy Director), Hong Liangqing (head surgeon of this operation), Huang Zhengyu, Miao Bin, Yang Peisheng

This section of the hospital was established in 1986. There are about 100 liver transplant surgeries s every year. So far nearly 1,000 liver transplant surgeries have been completed.

In 2004 the name of this section was changed to the "Organ Transplant Center of Guangdong Province" and became part of the Organ Transplant Research Institute of Zhongshan University. About 200 to 300 liver transplants surgeries are completed each year.

(5) Contact phone numbers of the No 3 Hospital in Zhongshan City Guangzhou Province

Phone: 20-85516867-2169
Address: The Liver Transplant Section, the No. 3 Hospital Affiliated to Zhongshan University
Post Code: 510630
Phone Numbers to register admission: 20-85516867-2169, 13503069826, 13302235995
Web Site for the Northern Campus of Zhongshan University in Guangzhou ( the Affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan Medical College: http://www.gzsums.edu.cn/

Clues Pointing to Illegal Organ Transplants: the No. 1 Hospital Affiliated to Jilin University in Changchun City recently set up a new section for organ transplants.

A staff member of the No. 1 Hospital Affiliated to Jilin University in Changchun City claimed that on the first level of the basement of the In-Patient Department, five liver transplant surgeries were performed before May 1. A notice on the gate of the hospital said that an organ transplant section has been established. It is said that May 10 will mark the first month of the establishment of this new section.

Phone: 431-5612906,0431-5612908

Falun Gong practitioners in the labor camps in Shijiazhuang city were asked to have physical examinations in 2003.

All of the Falun Dafa practitioners detained in Shijiazhuang City's labor camps had physical examinations in 2003. They went through tests such as having their blood taken, blood pressure measurements, electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram examinations. According to what the perpetrators said, a "transformation" base which would be used to "transform" the Falun Gong practitioners is being built in the Northwestern part of China.

(Clearwisdom.net) Several United Kingdom practitioners participated in truth clarification activities at the International Transplant Conference. We wish to share our experiences, so that fellow practitioners can learn from us as we learn from them and improve in our cultivation together.

1. Preparation

Before the activity, practitioners diligently prepared everything, given the importance of truth clarification during this conference in today's Fa-rectification period. We shared quite extensively over e-mail and during Fa study. We discussed why we are involved in this activity, how we should proceed based on the Fa, what message did we want to convey to the representatives, and so on. Practitioners who participated in this endeavor were all very conscientious, and their hearts reached the standards required by the Fa. We used our righteous thoughts to save people.

The preparations went quite well. All related materials were prepared and put in an envelope designated, "Information Pack on Unethical Organ Harvesting in China." This was to be given to each representative at the conference. Practitioners made sure that the information contained in the package was reliable, objective and accurate. The display boards and banners were remarkable, of good quality and sufficient in quantity. Falun Dafa fliers, special edition newspapers, and the "Nine Commentaries on Communist Party" were all prepared and ready to be handed out. We had everything we needed for truth clarification.

2. During the Activity

On the first morning, a Western practitioner stood at the entrance and handed out big envelopes. It was just as if the conference staff was giving them a hand. Other practitioners cooperated and made sure that close to all of the attendees received the information pack. However, many practitioners felt that our righteous field was very weak. Therefore, several practitioners got together and asked themselves "Have we really done well and done enough?" We wanted to give everyone an information pack, which included a petition and return address. We all hoped that they would send us the signed petition.

Through sharing we realized that we were not there to distribute the materials and fliers as we do at street crossings. We do this every day. On this day we went there to save these attendees, and save even more people through them. There are not many chances for these transplant professionals to meet. It was not easy for them to come to this conference. We decided that we must do better and more. Therefore, practitioners at every cross point came back. We quickly adjusted our mindset. We understood that everyone had to be at one place, so we could form a strong righteous field.

While the attendees were at a meeting, we recited Lunyu three times, sent forth righteous thoughts, and then recited "Lunyu" three times, sent forth once righteous thoughts, and so on. We all felt that the righteous field gradually became strong. Some practitioners began to practice the exercises, but made sure that two people continued to recite "Lunyu" and send forth righteous thoughts. As soon as the meeting was ended and the attendees were on their way to lunch, we began to distribute materials and explain the truth. During their afternoon session, practitioners shared again, recited "Lunyu," sent forth righteous thoughts and practiced the exercises. In the afternoon, we clearly felt that the entire field was different. While some practitioners continued to recite "Lunyu" and send forth righteous thoughts, tears ran down their faces and we felt a very merciful field covering the area.

3. Break Through during the Process

When the attendees came out in the afternoon, practitioners again clarified the truth and distributed materials. An attendee walked to the front of our display boards and told us that he had known that patients had gone to China for organ transplants for quite some time. He really understood us, and asked whether we had anything for him to sign. Practitioners told him a petition was already in the envelope, and he could sign it. At that time, practitioners suddenly realized, "Why don't we take the petition out of the envelope and have the representatives sign now? Teacher was giving hints and wisdom. We had to seize the time to save people. Why wait if we can save them face to face? Probably many attendees supported us. Yet, there may be interference stopping them from sending back the signatures, and we would miss the chance to save more people. We should let them sign right now. We must take the initiative in offering salvation to sentient beings, and this was our chance for clarifying the truth.

During the first afternoon, we told the attendees that we needed them to sign the petition. Many said they would go back and take a good look at it, and sign the next day. During that night, practitioners shared again. Our righteous thoughts were even stronger, and we realized our responsibilities and people's expectations. The next day, we prepared many petitions, just like we did the first day. However this time we not only spoke to the attendees, but also asked them to sign the petition. We collected 47 signatures. Many signatures were from the chairmen of organ transplant institutes and chiefs of university's organ transplant divisions from different countries.

4. People are Awakening

One practitioner pointed out that the stronger our righteous thoughts, the quicker the people will awaken. Many touching things happened during those two days, which also encouraged us.

A delegate from Russia said, "I am really sympathetic with you, but signatures have no use." Practitioners told him, "How can we keep silent when such cruelties are going on?" He immediately said, "Of course not." Practitioners said, "Your voice will help many people - they will not have to suffer this persecution." He signed immediately. A delegate from Spain said, "I will go back and read it carefully, I'll send you the signed statement, I won't forget." A delegate from Japan said, "Many patients asked me whether they should go to China for an organ transplant. I was thinking why the organs in China were so cheap and so good? I won't suggest my patients to have this surgery in China."

A delegate from China said to the delegates of other countries after he noticed practitioners, "These are all lies! Do not believe them." One practitioner replied: "No one is allowed into China to investigate. What evidence do you have so you can claim that what we are saying is false? Can you explain where so many organs come from?" The Chinese delegate could not respond. When the practitioner turned around, there were many delegates from other countries who had listened to this exchange. Four to five people walked up to the practitioner: "We understand and support you."

After reading about the facts, a man held a practitioner's hands and said, "Thank you for everything you do for justice." A passerby was half way through signing, and suddenly said, "I am going to visit China, if I sign this, will the Communist Party give me trouble?" The practitioner answered, "I do not know what the Communist Party will do, but I know the Chinese people will thank you." He immediately finished signing the petition.

There is not enough paper to tell of the many incidences that showed us what we were doing was good.

5. Experience Sharing

Practitioners who participated in this event felt that the opportunity we were given during these two days was very precious. We held different impressions before, during and after the event. The improvement of our xinxing and strengthening of righteous thoughts were also a part of this effort. We truly feel that such a great chance during the Fa-rectification passes by very quickly! Teacher told us: "Each opportunity will not occur again." We hope everyone will cherish every opportunity to validate the Fa.

A few thoughts to share with fellow practitioners:

Reciting "Lunyu" and sending forth righteous thoughts consecutively is very effective.

The process during such an event includes the process of improvement through cultivation; as long as one holds righteous thoughts, Teacher will strengthen you and unlock your wisdom.

Sharing between practitioners is extremely important. Sharing helped us realize what we had to do, and helped us strengthen our righteous thoughts.

It is important to work as one body to establish a harmonious field. If we did not cooperate as one body and each one did something different -- one wants to practice the exercises, another one wants to study the Fa, a third one wants to distribute materials - our effort would come to naught. When we are able to let go of self, the power of one body is huge, and we can do things more smoothly.

We need to strengthen everyday people's positive elements and power. Sometimes we felt everyday people had good thoughts, but they were not very strong. But we came to understand that our righteous words and actions could stabilize them.

It is very important to interact with everyday people. For example, on the first day, a delegate said many supportive words to our practitioners. Another practitioner told him when seeing him again on the following day: "My friend told me yesterday that you are very supportive. We appreciate your support highly! Your support gives us great encouragement." He was very happy. This was also to strengthen everyday people's positive attitude. If the practitioner who talked to him on the first day forgot to greet him on the second day, the effect would not be as good.

It is quite urgent to save people, but we also need to consider others feelings at all time. For example, on the second morning, our practitioners collected signatures at the entrance. The organizer of the conference told him/her: "I support you, but our conference has already started. Your collecting signatures stops many delegates from being on time. This affects the timing of the conference." We immediately realized that we were in the wrong. We had not considered the needs of the conference organizer. We quickly apologized. Of course, practitioners did well during the entire process. After the conference finished, the organizer told practitioners: It was a lot of work to prepare the conference, and that he had worked very hard. Now, he could relax. Practitioners understood now much better how important it was to consider others' needs at all times, just as Teacher told us.

It is very important to always keep righteous thoughts and a pure heart. During the process, we can't suffer anxiety, have the attachment of jealousy, attachment of pursuit, be attached to the result, or to how many signature we get, and so on. Teacher said, "Once your mind is not right, you will be ruined at once." This is so true. We must constantly adjust our mindset and look at what is needed for saving people.

There were not enough practitioners involved during this event. Everyday people also told us, "You need more volunteers." Practitioners are all very busy, but we still hope that practitioners try their best to allocate time to participate in future projects. With more practitioners, our righteous field will be so much stronger.

We must pay attention to this matter from our heart. If we are numb when facing such cruel happenings, how can others believe all this is real? Some Western practitioners may not feel this, and we must remind them.

When we meet the professionals and government officials, practitioners must pay attention to what they wear. It should not be too casual -- this shows the basic respect to those in everyday society.

I wrote this article in the hope that all practitioners can mature together, save more people, and not let them down.

Afterthought:

While writing this article, I felt severe stomach pain, something that had never happened before. I vomited everything I had eaten at dinner. Although I had the thought that I would be fine, it was not strong enough, so I felt very weak. I did not finish the article on time. Later when I continued, my thoughts became clearer as I went along. I always reminded myself -- I am writing this article in hopes of improving the entire body.

(Clearwisdom.net) In this universe, we are all beings saved by Teacher. Teacher offers salvation to us and we are the ones who are cultivating! We must cultivate according to the book Zhuan Falun and assimilate to the Fa of the new universe in order to enter the new universe. Teacher is rectifying the Fa and we are the Dafa disciples in the Fa rectification period. While we are helping Teacher to rectify the Fa, and everything new will be created in this process.

However, some practitioners forget about this. For example, after the exposure of the secret concentration camp by the Chinese communist party, some practitioners said that Teacher should eliminate those evils, that they were too vicious and how could such things take place?

Yes, if Teacher let the old universe explode and disintegrate and make a new universe directly, He would not need to tirelessly teach the Fa around the world to save sentient beings, save us from the hell, bear all of our karma for us, change our lives into practitioners' lives, protect and watch over us and save us to a future new universe which is not supposed to belong to this universe, etc. etc. Think about it, it is such a huge project that takes so much effort to transform us from lives whose nature is based on self to truly magnificent enlightened beings that are selfless and always think others first! It is so difficult. How can it be done without us truly cultivating ourselves?

How fortunate we are! We have met the great Teacher and become Dafa disciples! However, whenever we encounter tribulations, we count on Teacher to help rather than cultivating ourselves. Doesn't Teacher save more work if He takes us directly to Heaven? However, if we do not truly cultivate ourselves, our xinxing would not meet the standard. How could we stay there? We would be bound to fall. Therefore, we must look within when we encounter conflicts and tribulations.

It is our compassionate Teacher that has mercy for us. He gives us the opportunities to establish our mighty virtue in our cultivation paths. Teacher does not have tribulations! It is the old forces at every level that come in with their selfish thoughts to protect themselves. They control the low level factors to do whatever they want to do. They forced their deviated notions, which they thought were best, onto Teacher, therefore causing the huge tribulations in Fa rectification. Teacher does not recognize them, and neither should we recognize them in our thinking and behavior. Since the beginning of our cultivation, we have cultivated ourselves. We look within whenever we encounter conflicts and contributions. Because we are cultivating ourselves, we need to rely on ourselves. We cannot rely on external forces or changes, be they positive or negative. No matter what the condition is, grave situation or death camp, we eliminate our loopholes with the Fa and clarify the truth to save sentient beings. This way the evils are destroyed. This is what I truly felt recently.

It would be useless if we held on to the human notions in our hearts. Every human heart would prevent us from assimilating to the Fa and truly recognizing the Fa. Any conflicts and tribulations are opportunities for us to eliminate our human attachments and walk our paths righteously. This way we are not cultivating according to the arrangement of the old forces, but walking our own righteous paths.

At our materials site, one practitioner whose celestial eye is open firmly believed in Teacher and the Fa. However, whenever she needs to make an important decision, she always pushes away the opportunity and asks the opinion of Teacher's Fashen in the presence of us, "Teacher, we need to do it this way. If this is OK, please show us the Falun. Otherwise please do not show us the Falun." She makes the decision based on this. When I first saw this, I was worried and said that we could not be this way. It is we who are cultivating, not Teacher! How can we rely on Teacher rather than cultivating ourselves? When I saw her doing this for the second time, I thought that I needed to study the Fa with her. Because only when we truly recognize the Fa from our hearts can we change the human heart.

The more we emphasize ourselves, the deeper we fall into thinking of self, hence the less we consider others. As soon as we say something and others cannot accept it, conflicts will arise. When I read articles by fellow practitioners published on the Clearwisdom website, recollecting the old days Teacher lectured the Fa, I am always deeply touched. Teacher always thought about others. He is so compassionate. It is truly the Buddha light illuminating all directions.

When I studied the Fa again, I saw how Teacher is saving sentient beings, truly putting everything into this Fa and sacrificing himself for sentient beings. I found that I no longer had the attachment that I needed to improve and cultivate in order to gain from the Fa. Now I can take lightly all the lessons learned and all the mistakes in the past. Teacher has never given up on me! How compassionate our Teacher is! How magnificent the Fa is!

The more I read Zhuan Falun, the more I feel the preciousness of the Fa, the more appreciative I am to Teacher, and the more compassionate I feel towards those sentient beings who need to be saved. I need to tell them the facts, awaken their kindness, stop them from doing wrong deeds, and withdraw from the vicious party organization so that they can be saved in the future. I am grateful for Teacher's compassionate salvation! He watches over us and guides us to walk out from this deviated old universe and old selves. I respectfully conjoin my hands to my great Teacher!

This is my shallow understanding to share with fellow practitioners. My purpose is to help other practitioners. I wrote this because I truly felt the need, as Teacher is still constantly writing articles to guide us and point out the way during our cultivation. I hope to share experiences and strive forward together with other practitioners. Please point out anything that is inappropriate.

On May 11, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net) I obtained the Fa in 1997. I do not remember how many tribulations I came across on my cultivation path. But after I have gone through all this with unsteady steps, my deepest feeling is that as long as one has strong righteous thoughts, can remember that one is a cultivator and a Dafa disciple, and can overcome human attachments, one will be able to overcome the tribulations and have Master's protection.

Numerous Dafa disciples from the entire nation went to Beijing in order to validate Dafa on October 1, 2000. It was truly a battle between good and evil. Dafa practitioners went to Tiananmen Square early in the morning. Heavy, low, and dark clouds covered the entire square at the time. Facing the evil, Dafa disciples' righteous outcry of "Falun Dafa is good!" resounded across the sky. That day, a huge number of evil beings in other dimensions were destroyed.

All of us Dafa practitioners linked our arms tightly together and resisted the crazed arrests. A policeman was more than twenty meters away from me. He ran toward me and kicked me in the stomach, but I did not feel any pain at all.

They arrested about four to five thousand Dafa practitioners that morning. When a large bus filled practitioners passed the crowded Qianmen Street of Beijing, I took out a golden banner that read, "Buddha's light illuminates everywhere, propriety and justice are perfected and illuminated." ("Harmonizing with Fa" from Hong Yin) Crowded in the back of the bus at the big back window, I held the banner for a long time toward the numerous spectators who were watching us from outside, while hundreds of Dafa practitioners loudly cried out, "Falun Dafa is good!" At that point, my human thoughts disappeared and tears started to stream down the faces of many Dafa practitioners.

On the fifteenth day of my illegal arrest at a detention center, police officers asked me to write a statement of my understanding about Falun Gong. Someone by my side said, "Write something to admit your 'mistake.' Otherwise, you will be detained as a criminal or even sentenced to prison." I overcame my fear and wrote a statement saying that practicing Dafa is not a crime. The police officer did not even take a serious look at it before he released me.

One night, ten of us practitioners studied the Fa together. Suddenly police officers from a local police station arrived and searched our apartment. The police officers began to walk upstairs after they entered the door. At that point, all of us had strong righteous thoughts and were very calm. An idea occurred to us right away. We walked up to the top of the building and then went downstairs from the other side when the police officers came upstairs. We all escaped the danger smoothly. At that time, we knew that it was Master who had helped us.

Because we were attached to the time of the Fa-rectification, we did not take safety issues seriously, and the state of mind of some practitioners did not conform to Fa-rectification's strict requirements. Therefore, during an experience-sharing meeting we discussed how more practitioners should step forward in order to validate the Fa. Secret agents pretending to be practitioners turned us in. A large group of police officers surrounded us. In the process of resisting the arrest, police officers punched and kicked me. They beat me severely and I became muddle-headed, but right then a righteous thought suddenly appeared in my mind. I said, "I am a divine being, not to be beaten by people!" Immediately all the beating and kicking stopped. I said in my mind, "Thank you, Master."

The police officers assumed that I was a leader. In reality, I had never been a local coordinator or assistant. I was only a regular Dafa practitioner. The police attempted to get some clues from me. However, I refused to betray my fellow practitioners. The police then threatened me with a five- to eight-year prison term. Nevertheless, I told them that they did not determine my future. Then an officer tried softer means, and said that he would like to discuss the teachings of Falun Gong with me. I replied, "You are not worthy of that discussion!" At this point, the metal handcuffs, which were clamped tightly around my wrists, suddenly clicked open. The police officer turned pale with fear.

My understanding of the Fa is no longer as simple as before, after years of cultivation and with continuous Fa study. I repeatedly read the lectures of Master after [the persecution began on] July 20, 1999. I truly feel that for a long time, I had been stuck in self-cultivation. I treated many tribulations and barriers only as opportunities for me to improve. This kind of thinking about self-salvation is based on "egotism and selfishness," which is exactly a characteristic of the lives in the old cosmos. However, for a cultivator who wants to become a life in the new cosmos, he has to get out of the notion of self-cultivation. Otherwise, he will not become a Fa-rectification Period Dafa Disciple. He will not understand the significance of Master's Fa-rectification, and will not clearly see the difference between the arrangements of the old forces and those of Master. As a result, he may take a detour and "enlighten" along an evil path. I have gone through all of this and deeply understand this now.

One day, when I was reading Zhuan Falun, a sentence in the third paragraph of the first chapter caught my attention:

"Offering salvation to humankind means that you will be truly practicing cultivation, and not just healing illness and keeping fit." (Lecture One of Zhuan Falun)

This sentence went into the innermost part of my heart at once, and my years of understanding Dafa focused on this one point. I felt as though I had enlightened to a lot in one second. In this second, I truly understood my purpose of coming to this earth. I truly remembered my prehistoric vow, truly understood the difference between self-cultivation and cultivation in the Fa-rectification period. I truly understood the great significance of Master's Fa-rectification for sentient beings in the immense cosmos. I better understood the importance of negating the arrangements of the old forces toward the Fa-rectification in the cosmos.

It is my understanding that the old forces showed up and imposed serious interference on Master's Fa-rectification and the salvation of sentient beings. The slander and lies of the old forces have deceived countless people in the world, and the latter are facing the danger of being weeded out. Our mission as Dafa practitioners is to step forward at this critical moment. First, we have to resist the persecution imposed upon us by the old forces and clear away the evil beings that control evil people from other dimensions. Second, we have to clarify the truth to the people in the world who have been deceived. To achieve these two things, we must make ourselves worthy by establishing a good foundation of self-cultivation through Fa study and doing the Dafa exercises.

It is my understanding that the fundamental purpose for this Fa-rectification is to save all sentient beings in the cosmos, and to enable these beings to enter the new cosmos and have eternal lives. Master will save all those who can be saved, including those who have made mistakes but then corrected them and are worthy of being saved. How many people can truly understand Master's immense compassion!

My understanding is that only saving sentient beings can be considered as true cultivation. Only through saving sentient beings can we emerge from the old cosmos, which is based on "egotism and selfishness." We should become lives in the new cosmos that "attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism" (from "Non-Omission in Buddha-Nature" in Essentials for Further Advancement) Master then recognizes us as Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period, and we are true, cultivating disciples. In addition, only through rescuing sentient beings can we truly upgrade ourselves, have strong righteous thoughts, have opportunities to disintegrate the rotten demons and dark minions in other dimensions with righteous thoughts, and truly deny the arrangements of the old forces. By contrast, those who cannot step forward in order to speak for justice or to save sentient beings, who hide in their homes, read the books and study the Fa during this persecution against Master, Dafa and Dafa disciples, they are actually getting something from Dafa and are existing only for their own benefit regardless of how good their physical condition or health is. The new cosmos will not recognize such egotistical and selfish beings.

We are extremely fortunate to be able to follow Master and assist him with the Fa-rectification at this great historical moment, when the cosmos is undergoing a transition from the old to the new! This is the Fa-rectification of the entire cosmos, and our validating the Fa during this period is something unprecedented. It is truly a great glory within the entire cosmos, to be able to come through such a long history and become unprecedented great lives. We came across this opportunity, and we should treasure it greatly! We should be worthy of becoming such great lives!

Such great lives can only increase their virtue by assisting Master in the Fa-rectification and by rescuing sentient beings. Only after we have truly saved sentient beings, will we deserve such an immense glory. Therefore, the fundamental purpose for our studying the Fa, clarifying the truth and sending forth righteous thoughts can be summed up in one thing, which is saving sentient beings.

Saving sentient beings involves great danger, because the evil beings are holding numerous deceived sentient beings in China as hostage and are forcing them to resist Master and the Fa-rectification. These hostages are the straws the evil beings are temporarily holding onto in order to sustain their lives, and they would rather let the hostages be destroyed along with them.

Every person that awakens to the truth reduces the number of hostages; therefore, how can the evil not be fearful? That is the reason why they persecute any Dafa practitioner who is clarifying the truth.

Actually, no matter what kind of action we take in order to save sentient beings, we will have Master's protection if we can overcome our fear and have strong righteous thoughts. Master is always by our side. If we send forth righteous thoughts in order to clear up all obstacles before we distribute truth clarification materials, we will successfully finish the work. Once, we had only one building with about a dozen mailboxes left. A security guard was chatting close by the building. We waited for a while, but he did not leave. Therefore, we sent forth righteous thoughts to have him leave. Subsequently, a small rain shower started, and the security guard was driven away. How amazing! We thought that calling for wind and rain was a fairy tale; but actually, any miracle can happen when we are saving sentient beings. We sent forth righteous thoughts numerous times in order to let it rain before we started to distribute materials. Every time it was very successful. Another time, we were posting truth clarification stickers on phone booths. We saw someone making a phone call at a booth, which was over ten meters away from us. I sent forth righteous thoughts for him to end his call immediately. Subsequently, that person left when I was one or two meters away from him. We always send forth righteous thoughts upon entering a residential area, in order to let security guards at the entrance not look at us. As a result, we always successfully entered and no one has ever questioned us. The security guards acted as if they were not able to see us. We have distributed materials to all the surrounding areas we could reach, and we have now made more new materials to distribute to these areas.

As Fa-rectification disciples, Master protects us at all times. Once, a police officer suddenly rushed to my home in order to arrest me. I was not at home at that time. He waited for a while, and then made a strange call to me, asking me to return home. I had actually intended to go home at that time, and the police officer could have waited for me at home. Phoning me was equivalent to notifying me about an arrest beforehand. When I received the call, I immediately realized that it was Master helping me, so I was able to avoid the arrest.

In the process of cultivating during the Fa-rectification, we can use some forms of everyday people, but we should use them righteously and well. Once, I was not handling this well, and nearly ran into danger. At that time, the evil truly feared the massive truth clarification activities of Dafa disciples in our area, and was plotting to do a large-scale arrest. After I had escaped with righteous thoughts, I could not go back home, and decided to go to other areas. I obtained a temporary ID due to concerns about my safety during travel and hotel stays. However, during a security check, I had a problem with my ID. The police held me for further interrogation. I immediately enlightened that getting a temporary ID was not right because a Dafa disciple should be upright and dignified in all aspects. Just at this moment in the hallway where the security checks took place, there suddenly appeared turmoil between a few people who seemed to have a fight and quarrel. An unexpected situation like this made me realize that Master was helping me. Therefore, I escaped during the chaos.

In the process of truth clarification, one thing that is relatively difficult to handle is overtly emphasizing righteous thoughts and Master's protection without placing importance on conforming to the state of everyday people or conforming to the principles of ordinary society while cultivating. The level of ordinary people is a level within the great Fa of the cosmos. It is also obstructing Dafa if we do not follow the principles at this level, and of course, we would not be able to have righteous thoughts. Many practitioners were arrested due to this problem

Recently, some practitioners in our area have been arrested mainly because they became less alert to the evil, since they have lived in a relatively tolerant environment for a long time. They did not pay attention to safety issues when using telephones, computers and the Internet, and took few effective preventative measures. Therefore, the evil took advantage of their loopholes, and these lessons reached deep. However, we are gradually maturing in our truth clarification. We cannot wait until our human attachments have all been removed before we start clarifying the truth. This is impossible, as all of our human attachments are supposed to be revealed and removed during the process of truth clarification. During this process, Dafa practitioners will become more and more mature, and will walk steadily on the path of Fa-rectification cultivation.

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Recently, a fellow practitioner and I have felt that we were not in a correct state since we have not put forth a lot of effort in regards to the three things that Teacher asked us to do. When we did them, we felt exhausted, tired and sleepy. We used to think that it was because of the evil's interference from other dimensions. Together, we sent forth righteous thoughts to clean up the environment in which we live. However, we didn't see many changes. The fellow practitioner and I are both young men in our thirties. Therefore, we should have been very energetic and we should have been able to do more work to validate the Fa. However, we always suffered from fatigue and we felt that we weren't physically able to handle more work even though we wanted to.

This morning, when I got up, I sent forth righteous thoughts. Then I practiced the sitting meditation for one hour. After I finished the exercise, my body felt very light and I was clear-headed. I hadn't had this feeling for a long time. In fact, during the last twenty minutes of the exercise, fatigue made me yawn several times and my eyes produced a lot of tears due to tiredness.

When I thought about this, I came to realize that I seldom practiced the five sets of exercises every day ever since I moved to Beijing. I generally practiced the exercises once every couple of days. This was the same for the fellow practitioner. I also know that many young practitioners from other areas, who currently live in Beijing, also have this issue.

What Teacher taught us is an approach that cultivates our body as well as our mind. Therefore, our practicing the exercises plays a very important part in strengthening and transforming our body. Not practicing the exercises for a long time will definitely affect the transformation of our body and this is why we feel tired. When we are tired, we won't be able to focus. It will affect the effectiveness of our doing Dafa work, which could affect our righteous thoughts and righteous belief. This is a manifestation of deviation from the Fa.

We are Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples. We can't slack off when it comes to studying the Fa and practicing Dafa exercises. We should not emphasize one over another. Many diligent veteran practitioners have been doing very well in this regard. They practice the five sets of exercises and read one lecture of Zhuan Falun every day. Therefore, even though they don't sleep much, they are still very energetic and they have been doing a very good job in clarifying the truth and sending forth righteous thoughts.

Young practitioners in Beijing live in a special environment and we have a lot of work to do under tremendous interference from the evil. However, the main reason that we can't practice the Dafa exercises every day is not because we don't have time, but rather that we haven't paid enough attention to this. In fact, we often wasted time; sometimes interference caused us to oversleep. 

Some practitioners said that one hour of practicing the exercises is better than two hours of sleep. I agree with this comment. I believe that if we practice the five sets of exercises for two hours, it might be even better than four hours of sleep. Of course, we are cultivating in everyday people's society and therefore we can't not sleep at all. However, we can practice the exercises more and sleep less. This way, we can save some time and do a better job with what we Dafa practitioners must do.

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 9, Master published the article "Pass the Deadly Test." I cried when reading the article. I was deeply touched by Master's boundless benevolence. Master said,

"As your Master, I have never kept account of the wrong things you have done in your cultivation; I remember only the good things you have done and your accomplishments." ("Pass the Deadly Test")

I felt so lucky to be Master's student and a Dafa practitioner. We must treasure this rare opportunity of cultivation.

During the terrible persecution, I did give in to the evil, leaving a stain on my cultivation because I did not study the Fa well. Master, though, never gave up on me. With fellow practitioners' help I found my true nature again and returned to Fa-rectification period cultivation.

When doing the Three Things, I truly feel that Master is always with me, helping me, protecting me and giving me encouraging reminders. With Master's protection, studying the Fa made me realize many things, and that, no matter how big of a mistake I made, as long as I could truly let go of my attachments and correct the mistakes with righteous thoughts, Master never gives up on us! Master will continue to offer us salvation.

Master said,

"Indeed, as long as there's still one day when the persecution hasn't ended, that day is an opportunity. Use it well, do better, come back sooner, and don't miss any more opportunities. Don't dwell on your past mistakes--if you've made mistakes, then do well from now on. Don't think about the things that have happened. Think about how to do well from now on, and become truly responsible to yourself and to sentient beings." (Touring North America to Teach the Fa)

In his lectures Master compassionately called on us practitioners who made mistakes, sometimes big mistakes, many times to come back to Dafa. Master is waiting for us. We must not continue to make mistakes and take Master's mercy lightly. As long as we still want to cultivate in Dafa, we must do what Master told us to do - validate the Fa and rescue people. We must cultivate ourselves well in validating Dafa. We must correct our mistakes rather than covering them up. It is normal for a cultivator to have attachments; all we need to do is to rid ourselves of our attachments through cultivation. We should not be afraid! With the help of Master and Dafa we will succeed. We must let go of any concern and attachment to fear. We must be faithful to Master and Dafa.

Master said,

"Dafa disciples and I will not regard students who have gone down the wrong path in their cultivation the way ordinary people would." ("Pass the Deadly Test")

What great compassion and forbearance this is! If we cannot let go of our human notions under such boundless benevolence, we are not worthy of Master's salvation, nor could we still be the hope of sentient beings.

I hope we practitioners who have gone down the wrong path in our cultivation will all do what Master told us to do and truly treasure this precious opportunity.

May 12, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Xiao Rong (pseudonym) is 35 years old. She suffered from inflammation of the nervous system years ago. In the winter of 2005, her hands, feet, shoulders, and legs became so painful that it affected her ability to do daily work. She could not even do household chores. After taking a lot of herbal medicine and acupuncture, the pain was gone but her hands became very weak. Later, she became so weak that she could not even push the buttons on a TV remote control. She needed help to put her shoes on. She was diagnosed as having a sensory neural condition, a rare incurable disease. According to the specialists, the prognosis of this illness is very poor. Although it is incurable, the patient must take medicine for the rest of his/her life. Even with medicine, the life of the patient cannot be guaranteed, because the cause has never been determined

Xiao Rong brought a lot of medicine home. Just as the doctor said, her illness worsened significantly every three or four days, even though she kept taking medicine and having injections as prescribed. Her illness progressed very fast. Not long after, she had difficulty in swallowing. She was frightened. She was still young and her son was little.

When Xiao Rong was in a desperate situation, her sister, a Falun Dafa practitioner, came to see her. Her sister had clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to her many times before and encouraged her to practice Falun Dafa. Although Xiao Rong knew Falun Dafa was good and she often clarified the truth of Falun Dafa to other people and persuaded people to quit the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations, she did not study the Fa.

The words of her sister brought her hope. She started studying the Fa and learning the exercises. Xiao Rong decided to stop taking medicine because she thought: since hospitals cannot cure my illness, I will believe in Dafa!

After one week, her health was miraculously restored, as if she had never been ill. She could wash clothes, cook, and she could even go to work without difficulty.

A patient diagnosed with an incurable illness by medical specialists became a healthy person after one week practicing of Falun Gong. It was no wonder that Xiao Rong's relatives changed their attitudes toward Falun Dafa. Now Xiao Rong often talks about her miraculous experience to the people around her and tells them: "Falun Dafa is good!"

May 14, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net) Master came to Kenli County, Shandong Province to teach the Fa in February 1994. I was just checking in at the government-run Kenli County Hotel when I overheard someone talking about Master traveling by train in our direction. I remember it was around the Chinese New Year's Eve then. Only now do I understand how Master put every second he had to good use, took great trouble in stride and endured weariness to save sentient beings.

Master appeared at the restaurant's door in the hotel in the evening. We saw him from a distance. We felt that we had not been deceived, because Master looked exactly the same as his photo in the Health and Beauty magazine. The magazine had published the movements of Falun Gong's first set of exercise with comments from those who had benefited from practicing Falun Gong.

I remember that a farm woman was cured and no longer needed her traditional Chinese medications after the first few lectures. She then brought all her family members to Master's lectures. A young man suddenly fell to the ground outside of the restaurant after eating. He was foaming at the mouth and was said to be possessed. Master cleaned up his body right away.

A woman said that after years of marriage she hadn't been able to have a child. To cure this problem she had learned several Qigong exercises. Once she paid 200 yuan for listening to a certain qigong lecture; but the fee for new students for the ten-day Falun Gong lecture session only cost 50 yuan. Veteran students paid half of that. It was so inexpensive. The woman became pregnant, and her child will soon be a secondary school student.

A few veteran students had previously believed in Buddha. They said that Buddha had told them that a high-level Master was teaching the Buddha Fa and that they should hurry up to learn it. So they studied Falun Gong.

Master was temporarily staying at a room on the second floor because the hotel staff needed to clean his room. Hearing about this, we squeezed ourselves into the crowded room. I secretly observed Master from among the crowd. Master, sitting on a sofa, was very compassionate. His hair was black and shiny, and his skin pink and clear, like that of an infant's - this may sound disrespectful, but I truly felt this way at that moment. A woman director of a public security department in Northeast China sat facing Master. She said that she was scared when she levitated when doing the fifth exercise. Master smiled and said that this was a good thing.

A qigong master who had treated illnesses thanked Master for letting her know the harm in treating illnesses. She was sobbing and could not finish what she wanted to say.

A six or seven-year-old boy called Xiao Hou had attended Master's lectures in Beijing and then followed Master to Kenli County. He looked like an adult when he went to the restaurant to dine by himself with a bowl in his hand. The way he looked after himself was very cute in the adults' eyes, and one could not help but smile upon seeing him like that. I asked him in secret, "What did you see?" He told me in a low voice, "These things shouldn't be told to others." Seeing that my spirits weren't high (as I felt a bit world-weary and depressed) he comforted me and said that I did the exercises movements very accurately.

I also saw that some veteran students couldn't eat green onions. Also, when Master did the greater hand gestures, lots of cameras clicked to take pictures. I remember Master saying that these pictures were taken in vain. We went together to print the pictures, and saw that the ones we took with Master turned out fine; only those of Master doing the greater hand gestures did not turn out. It was truly magical.

At the conclusion of the lectures Master left. We didn't want Master to leave, but Master's schedule was already filled through the second half of the year. Except for the days he was lecturing, he was traveling from one place to another.

Thinking back, these scenes still arise clearly before my mind. After I got out of a labor camp I revisited the place where Master had taught the Fa. The energy field was still very strong there, and Master's words again resounded in my ears, "People here are a little numb." Today, with the persecution at the Shengli Oil Field being so severe, I write this article in hopes that we will no longer be so numb.

Apart from teaching Falun Gong during the ten days of staying in Kenli County, Master gave a few free lectures at the power machine factory and in the Gudao area. I heard later that Master had originally planned to teach Falun Gong at Dongying City, but because the local qigong association interfered, Master gave lectures in Kenli County instead under the administration of Dongying City.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Hualian County is located on the east side of the island of Taiwan, facing the Pacific Ocean. Central Mountain to the west is high and steep, with Taizhong, Nantou, and Gaoxiong counties as its neighbors. Yilan County lies to the north and Taidong County to the south. The long, narrow county is surrounded by mountains and rivers. Its people are very unique. It boasts especially magnificent scenery in Tailuge Valley, with its precipitous, broken cliffs, deep, quiet valleys, and waterfalls that run straight down. The magnificent scenery was formed over thousands of years by erosion cause by the Liwu Current, which is also an important asset of Tailuge National Park. The beautiful mountain and river make it a "pure land" in an age of intense industrialization.

Hualian is also a "pure land" in the human world, because it has been exposed to the wide spread of Falun Dafa.

The Spread of Falun Dafa to Hualian

In January 1996, Falun Dafa came to Hualian. An over 70-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Mainland China came to visit his family in Taiwan. He had had a serious illness and had undergone surgery twice. After he started practicing Falun Gong, he became very healthy and was able to walk briskly with no problems. He introduced the beauty of Falun Dafa to his family in Hualian County. He also brought the precious Jilin Lecture tapes, VCDs, Zhuan Falun, Essentials for Further Advancement and other books, which enabled Hualian to be one of the first counties in Taiwan that saw Falun Dafa flourish.

Group Practice in Front of the Hualian Culture Center

Group Practice at Donghua University

At the beginning, there wasn't a practice site, so people had to travel to Taipei to learn Falun Gong. Six months later, the first cultivation center was set up at the Hualian Culture Center, so that people could do the exercises and spread the Fa outdoors. A Fa study group was formed and 9-day lecture sessions were presented, and a good environment for group Fa study and exercises was gradually established. Due to Falun Dafa's miraculous healing effects and the way it helps one to keep fit, news spread very fast through word of mouth. More and more people joined the practice. Later, practice sites were set up all over the county, so that more and more people were able to obtain the Fa and practice. Currently, there are over 20 Fa-study groups and practice sites spread all over the towns and villages of Hualian.

At the Celebration of the Anniversary of Mingyi Primary School, Students are Demonstrating the Five Sets of Exercises

Primary school teacher Ms. Fu suffered from sciatica, so she couldn't lift anything heavy and always needed others' help. After she started practicing Falun Dafa, she became healthy and could even offer help to others.

Minghui School Spreading the Fa at the Education Expo

Falun Dafa teaches people to cultivate "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," which is like a clear current, purifying people's hearts. Practitioners take the initiative to improve their xinxing and their ethical standards. It is very well received in all walks of life, especially in the educational field. Teachers' learning camps, Falun Dafa Centers and Minghui Schools have been set up one after another. This has made it possible for Falun Dafa to spread even faster. Hualian Normal Institute (it has since changed its name to Hualian Education School) officially set up an elective course on Falun Gong, which counts as two credits. There were also Teachers' Learning Camps at Ziqiang High School; a Falun Dafa Club at Donghua University; and Minghui classes held at Mingyi Primary School, Zhongxiao Primary School and Zhongzheng Primary School.

An Italian National TV Station Came to Hualian to Shoot a Special Program on Falun Dafa Spreading Widely

On May 13, 2005, "Falun Dafa Day," Practitioners Greet Teacher

Hualian Practitioners Clarifying the Truth

In the early days, cultivation belonged to the period of personal cultivation. It emphasized studying the "Fa," doing the exercises, improving "xinxing," enlightening to theories of life, and finding the road returning to one's original, true self. Then, practitioners were always very cheerful. However, since July 20, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party started the persecution of Falun Gong, the cultivation environment has changed. Faced with overwhelming, slanderous propaganda, with righteous belief in Dafa and Teacher, practitioners in Hualian started their Fa-rectification cultivation experience, clarifying the truth and saving sentient beings.

"Stopping the Chinese Communist Party from Tarnishing Human Rights" Bicycling Around the Island" Activity

"Bring Jiang to Justice on a Global Basis" Signature Collecting Activity

At that time, many people hadn't heard of Falun Gong, or they had only read reports that were copied from those false reports from the Chinese Communist Party. They couldn't receive the proper information, so they were poisoned by lies from the Chinese Communist Party. Falun Dafa practitioners that benefited from cultivation both mentally and physically couldn't just stand by and watch Dafa being wronged. In order for people in Hualian to have a proper understanding of Falun Dafa, practitioners took the initiative to compile and print truth-clarification materials. Starting on July 20, 1999, they embarked on their road of clarifying the truth step by step.

During the Celebration of the School's Anniversary, Handing out Truth-Clarification Materials

Clarifying the Truth to People Face to Face

Students have taken the time on their own initiative to deliver Falun Dafa truth-clarification material to different households. They also clarify the truth to people about the beauty of Falun Dafa and the facts of the persecution. Whether they are being scorched by the sun or soaked by rain, practitioners have covered every street in Hualian. During the course of their handing out truth-clarification fliers, they have abandoned their fear of enduring hardships. Besides studying the Fa and cultivating their xinxing, they are more motivated to get in touch with people and started clarifying the truth face to face.

Practitioners' righteous thoughts and actions have eliminated the poison from the lies of the Chinese Communist Party, so that many people in Hualian have come to understand the facts of Falun Dafa. It has also set up a foundation for a bright future for the people of Hualian. Some practitioners recalled an incident from the past. In Fuli Village, which is towards the very south end of Hualian, there is a blind lady who is over 70 years old. She has restricted mobility, and her meals have to be provided by her neighbor. When practitioners delivered truth-clarification materials to her, since she could not read, practitioners had to read it for her. After listening, she was very touched by the fact that even at her age, she could learn about Falun Dafa. She felt as if she had been waiting for Dafa. This kind of thing also makes students realize more profoundly their mission and responsibilities.

Falun Dafa Truth Clarification Picture Show

Practitioners Clarifying the Truth at the "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" National Exp

Since November 13, 2000, Falun Dafa radio programs have been broadcast in Hualian by the Zhongzheng Radio Station. It broadcasts Teacher's "Teaching the Fa at Jinan" and practitioners' cultivation stories, so that more and more people from Hualian are able to learn the Buddha Law. From a radio, everyone can find out about Falun Dafa in a more comprehensive and in-depth way, as well the inner meaning of cultivation. Starting on December 1, 2000, a Hualian local TV station, Huilan Cable TV, has been broadcasting truth-clarification films such as "Falun Dafa in Taiwan" and Teacher Li's lectures. As soon as you turn on your TV, you can clearly hear Teacher Li lecturing on the universal law of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," which is very exciting. The people of Hualian are truly blessed.

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 28, 2006, Mayor Jerry E. Abramson of the City of Louisville, Kentucky, proclaimed May 28, 2006, as Falun Dafa Day.

Louisville

Office of the Mayor

Proclamation

Greetings to whom all these presents shall come, know ye that

May 28, 2006

is hereby proclaimed in Louisville, Kentucky to be

Falun Dafa Day

and I urge all citizens to observe this special recognition.

Done in Louisville, Commonwealth of Kentucky, this he Twenty-eighth day of May, 2006.

Jerry E. Abramson, Mayor

(Clearwisdom.net)

Editors' Note: In both Western and Chinese culture, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The universe will reward actions that are in harmony with this principle, while actions such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they too be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.

Wang Yinqiang, who arrested practitioners, is now paralyzed

Wang Yinqiang, in his 60's, lives in the Xiheliang Machine Factory Dorm in Qionglai City, Sichuan Province. On March 21, 2006, for the sum of 100 yuan, he assisted Wang Huiyun, He Yuxian, Wang Xunhong (the local CCP Committee Secretary), and several others to arrest and beat up practitioner Gu Guoxing, who was distributing fliers explaining the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. His elder son immediately criticized him on the spot, "Why in the world did you do that? What does it have to do with you? How could you face others after spending the 100 yuan?" A few days later Wang Yinqiang suddenly lost consciousness and fell to the ground. He became totally paralyzed, unconscious, and could not even utter a word. His family hurried him to the Provincial Hospital for emergency treatment. He has only gained a little feeling after spending thousands of yuan, but still remains paralyzed in bed at home. He cannot get up and must be taken care of by his family.

Department director, who prosecuted practitioners and approved warrants for their arrests, murdered by his wife

On around March 20, 2006, according to information from the Taishan District Procurator's Office in Taishan City, Shandong Province, Wang Jianxin, Director of the Department for Arrest Warrant Approvals, was found dead in his home. He was beheaded, and his head was hidden under the bed.

With approval from senior officials, his colleagues went to his home to look for him after he did not show up at work at the Procurator Office for three days. They broke into his house and found that he had been murdered. Based on preliminary investigations, the Procurator's Office found that Wang Jianxin was murdered by his second wife. She drugged him with sleeping pills then strangled him to death. Afraid that he might not really be dead, she cut off his head before running away.

Wang Jianxin was only 35 years old. He was the department director responsible for the approval and issuing of arrest warrants, formerly the job of the Prosecutor's Department. On February 16, 2006, he was the public prosecutor representing the CCP in the case against practitioner Yang Pinggang. During the court sessions, he vilified practitioners and Dafa, twisted evidence, and fabricated charges against practitioners.

After watching and reporting practitioners to authorities, a nurse at the Taishan Treatment and Healing Resort died suddenly

Wu Guifeng, the head nurse at the supply department of the Taishan Treatment and Healing Resort in Shandong Province, was deeply poisoned by the CCP propaganda. She slandered Dafa numerous times since July 1999. She participated in watching and monitoring practitioners. Some practitioners lost their jobs and suffered significant hardships because she reported on them to the authorities.

In the summer of 2005, she went to the hospital due to retinal swelling and infection. The procedure went smoothly and the wound was healing well. Just before she was due to be released from the hospital, she suddenly fell ill. She fainted and her condition became worse. She suffered symptoms such as uncontrollable bleeding when her blood was taken for testing or she was given shots. Repeated attempts to cure her failed, and she died soon after. She was in her late 40's.

Huang Tao, a policeman that persecuted practitioners in Shenzhen City, died

Based on information leaked from the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau, one of the most notorious policemen in the persecution of practitioners in Shenzhen City was ex-director Huang Tao of the Political-Security Department of the Futian District Public Security Bureau in Shenzhen City. During his tenure, he illegally arrested and tortured many Shenzhen area practitioners, including couples like Li Jianhui and Dai Ying. The Shenzhen 610 Office tried to keep the fate of Huang Tao a secret, especially within the Public Security organization itself.

Right now the most notorious officer is the current director of the Political Security Department in the Nanshan District Public Security Bureau in Shenzhen City, Fu Zhansheng, who graduated from the China Political-Judicial University. He is still very active in persecuting practitioners.

Fu Zhansheng: 86-13509681118 (Cell), 86-755-84453871 (Office)

Former head of the Jinzhou City 610 Office Li Xiejiang was seriously injured in an automobile accident.

The former head of the Jinzhou City 610 Office and the current Public Security Bureau chief in the Xiaolingzi District in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, was involved in an automobile accident in a undisclosed city in Heilongjiang Province. He was seriously injured and was being treated at a local hospital.

Assistant to the principal of Petroleum High School in Baoji City met with tribulation while carrying out wicked orders

At the school wide faculty meeting on April 5, 2006, Liu Tao, the young assistant to the principal of Petroleum High School announced, "Yesterday the city's 610 Office, Political-Judicial Committee, and Public Security departments held a meeting at the Jiaqing Hotel. They ordered each school to tell students that they must not read Falun Gong fliers. Turn in all fliers to the school faculty or destroy them immediately."

The day after his speech, he fell while walking and cut his right wrist seriously on glass. He was immediately rushed to the hospital for an emergency operation on his wrist and it was put in a cast.

May 9, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net) Around the Qin and the Han dynasties, there was a general named Han Xin, who was very good at leading his soldiers. Initially, Han Xin served as a low ranking official under Xiang Yu, the most powerful general in the war of resistance against the Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu reckoned that Han Xin didn't have great physical strength, so he didn't put him in an important position. Actually, Han Xin was very good at military strategy. Since his talent was not recognized, Han Xin left Xiang Yu and joined the army led by Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty. But Liu Bang did not think much of Han Xin either. Han Xin left Liu Bang's army too. Liu Bang's Prime Minister, Xiao He, heard the news that Han Xin had left, and he left in a hurry and chased after Han Xin, without having time to report to Liu Bang.

Three days later, Xiao He brought Han Xin back. Liu Bang asked Xiao He, "Where were you in the last several days? Why didn't you let me know?" Xiao He replied, "I left to take care of a very important matter that I didn't have time to report to you." Liu Bang asked, "What important matter?" Xiao He told him that Han Xin left, and he went after Han Xin to encourage him to stay. Liu Bang was very angry, "So many generals have left, and you didn't chase after any of them. Why did you chase after a little soldier?"

Xiao He replied, "Other people are easy to get, but not Han Xin. His talent is far beyond others. He is the person that you can rely on to lead your army and to conquer the nation."

Liu Bang asked, "In your opinion, should I make him the commander in chief?" Xiao He replied, "Absolutely. Han Xin is sensitive about his reputation. If you just order him to be your commander in chief, he may not accept it. You should set up an altar and hold a ceremony to ask him to be the commander in chief." So Liu Bang set up a grand altar and Han Xin indeed accepted the position and became the commander in chief. Later, Han Xin helped Liu Bang defeat his biggest enemy, Xiang Yu. Thus Liu Bang was named Han Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Once Liu Bang asked Han Xin, "If I were a general, how many soldiers can I lead?" Han Xin said, "Your Majesty can lead 100,000 soldiers." Liu Bang then asked, "How many soldiers can you lead?" Han Xin smiled and replied, "Me? Duo-duo Yi-shan." Literally translated, this meant "the more, the better", essentially boasting that no army is too big for him to lead.

Liu Bang was not too happy with this answer. Han Xin smiled and then said, "Your Majesty, you are not as good in leading soldiers, but you are very good in leading generals. That is why you are the emperor."Later on, people grew to use the saying "Duo-duo Yi-Shan" to mean "the more, the better."

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The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong

May 22

• Wang Jianguo Killed; His Wife in Detention and Parents Threatened
• Professor Xu Yin of Tsinghua University Illegally Sentenced to Forced Labor
• Zheng Dejun Brutally Persecuted in the Shayang Labor Camp in Hubei Province
• Falun Gong Practitioners Zhang Xiuling and Li Yongjun Are Arrested, Sentenced to Forced Labor and Have Their Terms Extended
• Ms. Sun Li in Shijiazhuang City Is Extremely Weak Due to a Hunger Strike; Her Family Urgently Calling for Her Release
• Concerning the Collusion of the 610 Office in Linyi City, Shandong Province with the Irrigation Technical School to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 9, 2006 (16 Reports)

May 23

• Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuju, 63, Persecuted to Death in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province
• Three Falun Gong Practitioners Missing from Chengdu, Shijiazhuang and Jinzhou Cities
• A Non-Practitioner Eyewitnessed Atrocities in the Shuangcheng Detention Center, Heilongjiang Province
• Mr. Wu Zhanting in Life-threatening Condition in Nanshan Prison
• Falun Gong Practitioners Liang Sulan and Jia Shuqiu in Heishan County, Liaoning Province Died Under the Persecution
• Many Detained Falun Gong Practitioners Were Forced to Have Their Blood Tested in Preparation to Be Transferred
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 4, 2006 (19 Reports)
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 7, 2006 (12 Reports)

May 24

• Four Practitioners Known to Be Missing from Beijing City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Dalian City
• Ms. Gao Yumei from Shandong Province, 73, Dies as a Result of Persecution
• Urgent Appeal for Attention to the Plight of Falun Gong Practitioner Yang Jianpo
• For Disclosing the Persecution at Hunan Province's Baimalong Forced Labor Camp, Ms. Yu Yingzhu Is Denied Family Visitation Rights
• Mr. Li Yequan From Daqing City on Hunger Strike for More Than Seven Months
• Practitioner Disabled From Torture in Fushun Police Department Now at the Brink of Death
• Crimes Committed by Guards in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp
• Three Practitioners from Shenzhen Held in Futian Detention Center
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 3, 2006 (18 Reports)
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 5, 2006 (18 Reports)

May 25

• Twenty-three Deaths of Falun Gong Practitioners Under Persecution in China Confirmed in April 2006
• Ms. Tan Pingyun Dies in Wangcun Labor Camp - Authorities Refuse Family's Attempt to Have Independent Autopsy Performed
• Cases of Falun Gong Practitioners Being Persecuted in Yunnan Province
• Additional Persecution News from China - April 28, 2006

May 26

• Two Falun Gong Practitioners from Chongqing City and Chaozhou City Missing for Six Years
• Many Practitioners Sentenced to Prison in Wuwei City, Gansu Province
• Daughter-in-law Died as a Result of Persecution; 93-year-old Mother Died Calling Out Her Son's Name
• Mr. Wang Ruijian on Hunger Strike in Changchun City
• Three Practitioners Died of Persecution in Shandong, Hunan, and Hebei Provinces
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 12, 2006 (19 Reports)

May 27

• Mr. Liang Runcheng and Mr. Liu Chengguo Are Severely Tortured in Benxi City Forced Labor Camp
• Ms. Yang Yuhua Dies from Abuse in Daqing Detention Center
• Qingdao City Practitioner Ms. Ou Yunjie is Near Death From Persecution
• Please Help Rescue Daqing City Practitioner Ms. He Lihua
• Ms. Zhou Feiyan Illegally Detained in the Public Traffic Branch of Changsha City Police Department
• Li Tiejun Dies as a Result of Torture at Chaoyanggou Labor Camp
• Three Practitioners from Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Shandong Provinces Pass Away as a Result of Persecution
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 10, 2006
• Additional Persecution News from China - May 11, 2006

May 28

• Ten Falun Gong Practitioners From Yichun City and Tieli City, Heilongjiang Province Illegally Sentenced and Imprisoned
• Wang Qingfu Tortured in Jiutai Forced Labor Camp Until Incapable Of Walking
• More Facts about the Persecution in the 2nd Group of the Jinzhou City Forced Labor Camp
• Qiu Li and Jiang Chunxia Emaciated Due to Persecution in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
• Status Update on Practitioners Illegally Arrested at the End of 2005 in Changde, Hunan
• The Persecution in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province
• The Status of Practitioners Imprisoned in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province
• A Chinese Dissident, Now in Germany, Reveals that the CCP Uses Psychiatric Hospitals to Imprison Healthy Falun Gong Practitioners
• Tortures Employed at Prisons in Jiamusi City and Harbin City: Pegs in the Fingers; Stabbed with Needles and Thrown into Ditches
• Mr. He Jiansheng and His Wife Liang Xiaoyan Again Illegally Arrested In Nanhai City of Guangdong Province
• The Situation of Several Detained Falun Gong Practitioners in Dongkou County

News and Events from around the World

May 22

• Seattle: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day and Explain the Facts
• Japan: Kinki Practitioners Expose the CCP's Organ Harvesting Atrocities in Kyoto
• Indonesia: Bali Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

May 23

• West Virginia, USA: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Participate in Strawberry Festival Parade, Receive Five Awards
• New York: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in Martin Luther King Parade, Organizers Express Appreciation
• Clarifying the Truth to German Chancellor's Office about the Harvest of Organs
• Yunlin, Taiwan Press Conference: Stop the Crime of Harvesting Organs

May 24

• Chinese Workers in Malaysia Learn the Truth

May 25

• Belgian MPs Publish an Open Letter Urging European Governments to Restrain the New Genocide in China
• Singapore: Falun Gong Practitioners' Waist Drum Troupe Becomes Focus During the Big Walk
• Sydney: Practitioners Hold SOS Van Tours to Expose the CCP's Evil Crimes

May 26

• Houston, Texas: Practitioners Protest Arrival of CCP's Religion Bureau Director Ye Xiaowen, WOIPFG Announces Investigation
• Indonesia: Exposing the CCP's Crime of Live Organ Removal in Chinatown
• Finland: Protest against China's Inhuman Persecution of Falun Gong
• Switzerland: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in Zurich
• Germany: Practitioners Rally in Munich to Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

May 27

• European Parliament Vice President Visits China and Learns More About the Persecution
• Malaysian Judge Dismisses Case against Falun Gong Practitioners
• Korea: Practitioners Protest Visit by Bo Xilai

May 28

• EFGIC: EU Reaches Out to Chinese People
• Lithuania: VIPs Attend "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" International Art Exhibition and Condemn the CCP's Brutality