January 27, 2000
Since April 1999, many practitioners in Nan-yang City have stood out and gone to Beijing to defend Falun Dafa. Several hundred practitioners have been illegally detained for 15 days to 4 months. Currently, dozens of practitioners are still being detained.
Some practitioners were on hunger strike in the jail for up to 7 days. Some practitioners refused to write the pledge promising that they would give up Falun Gong and would not go to Beijing to appeal, even though they were under great pressures. Because of that, they have suffered more tribulations physically and mentally.á
[1] Some practitioners were put on handcuffs and shackles for more than one month. For example, practitioners Jin-ting Fan, Yu-lian Zhang, Zhi-yun Jiao, Yong-zhen Xiao, Juan Niu, Xiu-yun Wang and Yu-juan Kui etc were put on handcuffs and shackles for a long time in jail.á
[2] Some practitioners were humiliated in jail by officers and criminals. For example, Hong-cheng Lu was once forced to bend down to smell the toilet for more than 4 hours.á
[3] Some practitioners were illegally detained just for exchanging experiences with other local practitioners.
[4] Some practitioners were thrown into jail for writing to the local officials to report the truth of Falun Gong.á Practitioners Xin He, Yu-qing Gao and Doctor Zhang from the cancer hospital were detained for more than one month for writing to their supervisors or city officials to report the truth of Falun Gong.
[5] Some practitioners were under home arrest for 24 hours a day. For example, Gui-lian Su, Zhi-yun Jiao and Pei-jie Yao were monitored by their workplaces after they were freed from the detention center.á Some practitioners' home phones were monitored by the police. Some practitioners' ID cards were confiscated and they were required to pay 2,000 Yuan to 5,000 Yuan as deposit.á
[6] Practitioners Dong-mei Peng and Wen-ting Li were illegally detained for more than three months before they were given a sentence of 2 to 3 years of forced labor only because they refused to write the pledge of giving up Falun Gong.
[7] Practitioner Chun-zhi Liu was detained for more than one month and fined 9,000 Yuan for going to Beijing to appeal. She was detained again in January for refusing to write the pledge of giving up Falun Gong. She has been detained up to now.á
Under the pressures, practitioners
from Nan-yang City become more and more determined about Falun Dafa. They
realized that they should stand out to defend Falun Dafa. Many practitioners
are ready to go to Beijing to defend Falun Dafa.á
Category:
Overview of persecution
