Shortly after 3:00 p.m. on January 19, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Yao Yanhui was arrested by the Xinhua Branch Police Department in Shijiazhuan City, Hebei Province. Yao is from Huludao City, Liaoning Province and has been transferred back there and held in the Huludao Forced Labor Camp. Yao has been on a hunger strike for over 80 days since being arrested.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Office of the head of the labor camp: 86-429-3129797, 86-429-3110974
Office of the deputy head of the labor camp: 86-429-3126510, 86-429-3121724, 86-429-3122287
Liu Guohua: 86-429-3182979 (home), 86-429-311-0974 (office), 86-130-50989697 (cellular)
Ding Wenxue: 86-429-2072386 (home)

At the end of 2000, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Bai Mingsheng was arrested by the Beigou Police Station in Siping City, Jilin Province for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. Also arrested with him was Falun Dafa practitioner Yu Wenjiang, who died from police brutality at the end of 2000 in the Siping Detention Center. Mr. Bai was handcuffed and hung off the ground for beating throughout the night. In January 2001 he was unlawfully sentenced to one year of forced labor. He was severely abused, both mentally and physically, in the Siping Forced Labor Camp. In June 2001, he and three other Falun Dafa practitioners successfully escaped form the labor camp. In August 2001, he was arrested while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province after leaving his hometown. Mr. Bai is currently being unlawfully held in the Shenyang No. 2 Prison.

On the evening of April 8, 2004, officers from the Yuncheng District Branch of Yunfu City Police Department in Guangdong Province broke into Falun Dafa practitioner Lin Jingjing's home to arrest Lin and conduct an unlawful search.

That same night, police also besieged Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Shuhua's home. They turned off the water and electricity, then pried open the door. By the afternoon of April 9, they carried out an unlawful search of Xu's home and arrested the couple as well as their 10-year-old daughter.

On the evening of April 2, Ms. Wu Xiuqin and another Falun Dafa practitioner went out to distribute Falun Gong truth-clarifying leaflets. They were taken into custody and beaten up by a group of officers from the Biguo Branch of Zhaoyuan Police Department. The officers then went to the two practitioners' home and arrested the other practitioner's husband, who is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. That same night, police also broke into homes in Xiaowujia Village in Qishan Township and arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Guo Jianrong and Li.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Wang Lifeng, chief of the Biguo Branch Police Department: 86-13905456112 (cellular)
24-hour call-in number of the branch police department: 86-535-8475002
Office of the branch police department: 86-535-8475338
Zhaoyuan City "610 Office"(1): 86-535-8242287

At 9:40 p.m. on April 9, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Yongjun was arrested at his home in Songjianghe Town, Fusong County, Jilin Province. His home was unlawfully searched. Falun Dafa books, a personal computer, and a tape recorder were confiscated. Wang is currently being held in the Fusong County Detention Center. Another Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Wu, was also arrested.

Falun Dafa practitioner Gao Yuqin was formerly the deputy assistant who volunteered to help other Falun Gong practitioners in the Anshan area. After July 20, 1999, Gao was unlawfully sentenced to ten years in prison for continuing to practice Falun Dafa. Gao has been held in the Shenyang Prison Compound and gone through severe persecution for refusing to comply with their evil demands.

On March 9, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Gong from Yantai City, Shandong Province was arrested along with his two children, a 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. Carrying out the arrests were six officers and cadres from the Baishi Road Police Station, the Baishi Road Neighborhood Administration Office, and the Dongshan Neighborhood Administration Office.

At 4:00 p.m. on April 8, 2004, officers from the Yingxiong Street Police Station in Siping City, Jilin Province arrested Zhang Xihou and his wife Feng Xiulan, both in their seventies, at their home. The police also ransacked their home several times, but came up with nothing. The couple is being unlawfully held in the Dongshan Detention Center in Siping City.

In September 2003 Ms. Gao Jinmei and three other people were arrested for clarifying the truth. Their whereabouts remain unknown.

In early April several Falun Dafa practitioners in Zhabei District were unreasonably placed under arrest. Practitioners in Zhongshan Park and Changfeng Park were also unreasonably arrested while exchanging thoughts.

Ms. Wang Mingzhu lives at Room 204, No. 21, Lane 953 Hongqiao Road, Changning District. At 8:00 p.m. on April 6, seven police officers and members of the State Security Bureau broke into her home. Ms. Wang was placed under arrest and her home was ransacked. Her whereabouts is unknown.

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Hao Lihua is a teacher in the Jianxin Beiqu Kindergarten in Shunyi District, Beijing. On the evening of April 1, 2004 she was clarifying the truth to security guards of the Jianxin Beiqu living complexes and was reported to the police. She was first taken to the security division of the Shunyi Police Department and then transferred to the Guangming Police Station. She is currently being held in the Nihe Detention Center in Shunyi District. The night of April 1, a dozen or so officers from the Guangming Police Station also ransacked Ms. Hao's home, taking away three CDs with Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials, two floppy disks, and two Falun Dafa books.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Zhang Huazhi, director of the Shunyi "610 Office": 86-10-8947-6003
Zhang Yan, head of the Security Division of Shunyi Police Department, and Xiao Changjun, deputy head of the division: 86-10-6942-4957
Zhen Zhankui, head of the Nihe Detention Center in Shunyi: 86-10-6940-1575

(1) "610 Office" is 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.