(Clearwisdom.net)

  • [Tanghe County, Henan Province] A Falun Dafa Practitioner Is Unlawfully Held in the Compound of the Tongzhaipu Township Government
  • [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zheng Libin Is Transferred to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp after Two Years of Unlawful Custody in Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp
  • [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Xiaoqiao Is Unlawfully Held in Custody
  • [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhong Fengyan Is Missing
  • [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Those Who Are Responsible for Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Guirong
  • [Zhengzhou City, Henan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Cui Ningning was Abducted by the Police
  • [Benxi City, Liaoning Province] Recent Developments on Persecution against Falun Dafa Practitioners
  • [Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Han Hong Is Unlawfully Placed under Arrest
  • [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Frenzied Arrests of Falun Dafa Practitioners and Sabotage of Sites Where Truth-Clarifying Materials Are Kept
  • [Datong City, Shanxi Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Lu Zhi'e Unlawfully Arrest
  • [Beijing] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Feng Guoqin from Chaoyang District Is Arrested After Her Release from a Forced Labor Camp
  • [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners at Zhaogezhuang Mine in Kailuan Are Unlawfully Placed under Surveillance
  • [Beijing] Beijing Police Continue to Persecute Falun Dafa Practitioners while SARS Runs Rampant
  • [Heilongjiang Province] Local Government in Gaoleng Affiliated with the Fangzheng Forestry Bureau Persecute Falun Dafa Practitioners

1. [Tanghe County, Henan Province] A Falun Dafa Practitioner Is Unlawfully Held in the Compound of the Tongzhaipu Township Government

Around May 17, 2003, a young Falun Dafa practitioner, while presenting the facts about Falun Gong, was abducted by police officers from the Tongzhaipu Township Police Station in Tanghe County, Henan Province. The practitioner refused to give out his name and address to the police and was inhumanely tortured. He has been held in the compound of the township government for five days by now and remains in critical condition. More details are under investigation.

Falun Dafa practitioners are asked to send righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil.

Contact information at Tongzhaipu Township, Tanghe County, Henan Province

Police Station: 86-377-8481255, 86-377-8480853
Criminal Investigation Team: 86-377-8481935
Township Government: 86-377-8480853
Village Committee: 86-377-8481373
Court: 86-377-8480850
Head of Tongzhaipu Township: Yang Xinya
Chief of the Tongzhaipu Police Station: Zhang Zhaoyi
Police officers at the Tongzhaipu Police Station: Song Feng, Shi Juyong

2. [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zheng Libin Is Transferred to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp after Two Years of Unlawful Custody in Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp

Falun Dafa practitioner Zheng Libin from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province was unlawfully held in custody at the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp in Beijing for two years. On April 17, 2003, the labor camp authority refused to release him. They colluded with the Jiamusi City police and transferred Zheng to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp for extended custody. Zheng Libin was locked in a "small cell" for four days and four nights upon arrival at the forced labor camp.

Note: A small cell is a extremely confined area, the length of which is less than the height of man, with a width of about 3 feet. Besides the cement walls, there is only a steel gate. It is so dark inside that one cannot see anything. On the ground is a couple of wooden boards, underneath of which is the toiletry. It is damp and humid as well. Many Falun Dafa practitioners have suffered from being locked in a small cell.

3. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Xiaoqiao Is Unlawfully Held in Custody

On March 26, Ms. Zhang Xiaoqiao was unlawfully taken away by members of the local "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] and officers from the police station. She was sent to the Tropical Forestry Lodges affiliated with China's Forestry Academy located in Longdong, Guangzhou City. In the recent four years, Ms. Zhang has been detained and arrested numerous times. She has also been unlawfully sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp. Whenever a holiday or a sensitive date approached, Ms. Zhang was harassed and threatened.

The Tropical Forestry Lodges is a new brainwashing facility. Brainwashing sessions have been held on each Tuesday staring April 8, with fewer than 10 practitioners attending each session. Falun Dafa practitioners who refuse to be brainwashed will be locked in isolation for further persecution. This is part of a new campaign against Falun Dafa practitioners.

4. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhong Fengyan Is Missing

Ms. Zhong Fengyan started practicing Falun Gong in 2000 and she has benefited tremendously both physically and mentally. At the end of 2000, she went to Beijing to execute a citizen's basic rights by voicing a fair word for Falun Dafa. She was unlawfully sentenced to one year of forced labor. After her term was over, she continued to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa to the public. In April 2003 she suddenly disappeared. Her family doesn't know her whereabouts or even if she is alive.

5. [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Those Who Are Responsible of Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Guirong

On April 22, Ms. Zhang Guirong was abducted by the No. 1 Section in the Shuangyashan City Division of the Police Department. Two police officers who pressured her to jump off from the fifth floor are Dai Changpeng (mobile telephone number: 86-13846939000) and Li Hongbo (mobile telephone number: 86-13946648219).

On April 24, besides Ms. Qiu Shuying, several other female Falun Dafa practitioners Chen Shuyun, Chen Ping, Wu Yufen, Shan Jinying, and one whose name is not known were unlawfully sent to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp.

6. [Zhengzhou City, Henan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Cui Ningning was Abducted by the Police

Ms. Cui Ningning is 46 years old. On May 17, 2003, while she was distributing materials containing facts about Falun Gong on the campus of the Henan Agriculture University, police officers from Jinshui District unlawfully arrested her. On May 19, officers searched her home and took away a notebook computer, a printer, a copier, videotapes of Teacher's lectures, Falun Dafa books, a cassette recorder and numerous truth-clarifying materials and CDs. Her whereabouts remain unknown.

7. [Benxi City, Liaoning Province] Recent Developments in the Persecution Against Falun Dafa Practitioners

Prior to the May 1 holiday, Cuidong community cadres were sent by the Cuidong Police Station in Benxi City to harass Falun Gong practitioners in the community. Practitioners were forced to write statements denouncing Falun Dafa. This has caused disharmony between practitioners and their family members. In order to avoid follow-up persecution, some practitioners had been forced to leave home and have no place to stay.

In March, a site where Falun Dafa materials were kept was sabotaged in Benxi City. It is not clear how many Falun Dafa practitioners were under arrest.

In April, a site where Falun Dafa materials were kept was sabotaged at Nandi, Benxi City. About fifteen or sixteen practitioners were unlawfully arrested.

In April, a brainwashing session was held in the Weining Resurrection Institute in Benxi City. The address is: Drug Rehabilitation Center, Weining Resurrection Institute, Benxi City, Liaoning Province. Telephone numbers: 86-414-4618969, 86-414-4618979.

Those who are responsible for persecuting practitioners include:

Cao Zhongliang, officer at the Cuidong Police Station in Benxi City. He has been actively engaged in persecuting Falun Gong by arbitrarily breaking into practitioners' homes to conduct illegal searches and take away Falun Gong books. He has also confiscated residential cards at will.

He Suzhen, female, 67 years old, is a cadre of the Taxi community in Benxi City. She is extremely hostile towards Falun Gong and has been constantly harassing and scolding Falun Dafa practitioners. She has on numerous occasions sent practitioners to the police station for persecution.

8. [Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Han Hong was Unlawfully Placed under Arrest

9. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Frenzied Arrests of Falun Dafa Practitioners and Sabotage of Sites Where Truth-Clarifying Materials Are Kept

On May 16, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Ruilan was abducted by the police in the Daowai area.

On the afternoon of May 19, the police besieged a site where Falun Dafa materials were kept in Building No. 7 in a community on Harbin Airport Road. They sawed down the door and arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Wang Cuihua, Ms. Yan Chunling, and Mr. Zhang Chuanzuo.

On the afternoon of May 15, five or six sites where Falun Gong materials were kept in the No. 211 Hospital in Harbin were searched simultaneously. Over a dozen Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested. Sources in the police forces revealed that this was the result of a lengthy operation of tailing and surveillance.

Since May 15, several sites have been sabotaged which led to many Falun Dafa practitioners being arrested.

10. [Datong City, Shanxi Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Lu Zhi'e Unlawfully Arrested around May 9 by the Police

11. [Beijing] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Feng Guoqin from Chaoyang District Is Arrested Soon after Being Released from a Forced Labor Camp

Around April 25, Ms. Feng Guoqin, 54-year-old, was unlawfully taken away by the Chaoyang Division of the Police Department. Her home was ransacked and all Falun Gong books and materials were confiscated. Ms. Feng Guoqin served one and a half years in the Xin'an Women's Forced Labor Camp. It has been less than six months since her release.

12. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners at Zhaogezhuang Mine in Kailuan Are Unlawfully Placed under Surveillance

The Party Committee of the Zhaogezhuang Mine Group and the "610 Office" in Kailuan have ordered all the mining sections, fields, and teams to place Falun Dafa practitioners under surveillance around the clock. Dedicated personnel monitor the practitioners during work hours. The company has also setup sheet-metal cabins at the gates of residential compounds. Two people are assigned to each shift. Over 70 people have been sent in from various subsidiaries. This surveillance team has enough people to follow practitioners whether practitioners are visiting relatives and friends or simply going grocery shopping.

Falun Dafa practitioners being tailed include: Liu Huating, Wang Baoyin, Zhang Fuyin, Huang Baoyuan, and Liu Cuiqing (female).

13. [Beijing] Beijing Police Continue to Persecute Falun Dafa Practitioners in a while SARS Runs Rampant

Residents in Beijing have been worried about SARS. According to internal official sources, some followers who had once quit practicing Falun Gong have resumed practicing as a result of the SARS virus running rampant. (because of the tremendous health benefits that practitioers experience) Others have started practicing Falun Gong for fear of falling victim to the SARS virus. The police are intimidated. However, officers still blindly follow instructions to continue the persecution.

One officer in a police station in Shijingshan area, who participated in the inhumane treatment of Falun Gong practitioners, has died of SARS.

14. [Heilongjiang Province] Local Government in Gaoleng Area Affiliated to the Fangzheng Forestry Bureau Persecute Falun Dafa Practitioners

Since July 20, 1999, the local government in the Gaoleng area has closely followed the Jiang regime in persecuting Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa practitioners. Falun Dafa practitioner Li Hongkui was unlawfully sentenced to one year in a forced labor Camp. He was never sent to the forced labor camp, but held in the local detention center instead. It has been over three years, and Mr. Li is still held in custody. At the moment, all Falun Dafa practitioners unlawfully held in the Gaoleng Detention Center are on a hunger strike. They have been rushed to a hospital and are in serious conditions.

May 21, 2003