Summary of Other Articles and News - August 19, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1) Many Falun Dafa practitioners in Heilongjiang Province have been sentenced to prison since this spring, such as Ms. Lei Min, Ms. Zhao Hong, Mr. Gao Jingju, and Ms. Qu Shumin, each sentenced to seven years, and Ms. Yan Chunling and Mr. Liu Bingyi sentenced to 11 years each. Ms. Yang Zongqin was given a three-year prison sentence, and Ms. Zhang Qingyan was also been sentenced.

2) Huanglong Police Substation Director Zhang Yu of Nong-an County, Jilin Province, used to be the director of Kai-an and Liujia Towns' substations. He actively participates in the persecution Falun Gong, sending Dafa practitioners to detention centers and labor camps and extorting money and possessions from them. Some practitioners have had to become destitute and homeless in order to avoid being illegally arrested at home.

3) Practitioner Ms. Deng Honghua from Qidong County, Hunan Province, went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Dafa on June 18, 2000. She was detained in Shunyi County Detention Center for 19 days. She was escorted back home, where local police interrogated, tortured, and detained her in the Qidong County Detention Center for 39 months. On March 27, 2004, she was arrested and tortured again for passing out truth clarifying material in Shaoyang County.

4) Practitioner Mr. Xie Zhiyuan was just released from Sichuan Provincial Xinhua Labor Camp on July 22, 2004, but abducted again on August 16 to the Xinjin Brainwashing Class held in Chengdu City.

Persecution Facts from Ling County, Shandong Province

Practitioner Ms. Liu Guixiang went to Beijing to appeal in October 2000, was arrested and then bailed out two months later when her family paid more than ten thousand yuan (1). She died two months later. In October 2000, Ms. Li Xiuqing's husband went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to two years in Wangchun Labor Camp. Ms. Li (a non-practitioner) could not take the mental strain. She suffered a nervous breakdown and committed suicide in the spring of 2001. On August 7, 2004, police stormed into Luzhuang Village, ransacked the homes of practitioners Mr. Qu Fengxi and Ms. Zhou Fulian and abducted practitioners Ms. Zhang Dongju, Ms. Li Xiurong, and Lu Rongli. The latter two were bailed out. On July 21, 2004, police ransacked practitioner Ms. Wu Xiuzhi's home in Bianzhuang Village, abducted her, and continue to detain her in Ling County Prison.

Falun Dafa Practitioner's Family Appeal Letter

My name is Yan Hua, and I am 14 years old. My mother Gu Xiufen is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Songming County, Yun-nan Province. On July 25, 2004, because she told others to be a good and to treat Dafa practitioners nicely, she was abducted by Songming County police and detained in the county detention center. I am not allowed to visit her. I am left alone all by myself at home. I hope kind-hearted police help me return my mother! I need my mother, I need my mother's love, I need a place to live, and I need to go to school!

(1) Yuan: Chinese currency; the average monthly pay of an urban worker is 500 yuan.