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115 people published solemn declarations stating that their past words and actions under threats, terror and brutal persecution, that didn't conform to Dafa are completely void. They will continue to cultivate Dafa with determination, take solid steps to double their efforts in making up for the losses [they caused to Dafa], clarify the truth, eradicate the evil and become qualified Dafa disciples.

A group of practitioners in a city congratulated the founding of "Changchun Falun Dafa Day." They hung colorful Dafa banners on trees and electric poles on the side of main roads. A huge banner about 3.5 m [about 11.4 ft] in length and 0.7 m [about 2.3 ft] in width was hung up on a tower. The words "Restore Falun Dafa's Reputation" in red on a yellow background were very eye-catching.

A female practitioner in Jiamusi City posted truth-clarifying flyers and was caught by a vicious policeman, He Shuang. He dragged her into a rural police department and which resulted in all the buttons being pulled off of her clothes from the rough treatment. This practitioner clarified the truth to the policeman with compassion and refused to cooperate with the evil. Later, she was transferred to a detention center for a body search. She was forced to jump out from a window and was seriously injured. The police claimed, "This is an accident during a period of [medical] treatment, so we are not responsible for it."

Stories of Fa-Rectification Cultivation

On December 31, 2001, I went to Beijing with several other Dafa practitioners, and we were arrested. Four policemen from the Chaoyang Police Division beat us with leather belts and shocked us with electric batons. We were then transferred back to Deyang, Sichuan Province, where the local government officials detained us in a grain storage depot. The perpetrators there forced us to remain standing for several days, during which time we were not given anything to eat. Guard Jiang Ze used a club with small, sharp spikes to beat our heads and bodies.

Two months ago, I was arrested at a site for making truth-clarifying materials. In the detention center and the forced labor camp, I refused to do anything that inmates are required to do such as reporting the inmate number, working, doing exercises, and reciting rules. I went on hunger strike for 60 days to ask for my unconditional release, and lost 45 pounds in the process. Later, the doctors in the forced labor camp found it difficult to even set up a transfusion for me. Afraid of taking responsibility in case I died, the doctors asked my family members to take me home for medical treatment.

Zhenzhen began to practice Falun Gong in March 1999. She lives with an aunt, where she only eats some steamed sponge cake made of the mixture of ground bud rice and wheat flour everyday. Sometimes, she eats dough drop soup and pickles. But nevertheless, she saved 1000 Yuan RMB from her one semester's living expense to be used for truth-clarification.

News from Overseas

On January 5, practitioners from St. Petersburg and ten other cities in Russia, Ukraine and Latvia practiced and did Hong Fa (Falun Dafa introductions) at the downtown district of the city center. The news reporter from St. Petersburg's TV station made some on-the-spot coverage and reported this activity that evening. This is the first time that they did not add in the lies from Jiang Government during their report of Falun Gong.