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Facts of the persecution

I am Tan Shihua, female, 60 years old, a retiree from the transportation department in Yunnan Province. In August 1999, persons from a Wuhua District Police Precinct ransacked my residence and confiscated my personal belongings because I practice Falun Gong. Before September 1999, my son was selling Falun Gong books and audio video materials. On September 29, my son's shop was sealed up and put under investigation by the City Police Department. He was detained, on the basis of criminal charges, in the Kunming City First Detention Center for as long as one month. The Property Tax Bureau and Inland Revenue Bureau increased his fines. He subsequently had to hand over 35 thousand Yuan as a "security deposit" before he was released on bail to await his sentence. In June 2001, I was illegally arrested and sent to Kunming City's No. 1 Detention Center. I was then transferred to the Dabanqiao Women Forced Labor Camp for two years of forced labor.

Xie Yujun, a Dafa practitioner in Xingning City, Guangdong Province, was unlawfully detained for cultivating in Falun Dafa. The officials sent him to forced labor and brainwashing classes. Later he went into exile to avoid the persecution. On July 10, 2004, Xie Yujun was once again abducted. He had then been sent to the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp in Guangdong Province and sentenced to 2-1/2 years of imprisonment.

Shen Lixin, a Dafa practitioner in Zhenlai County, Jilin Province, was harassed and mistreated often because he was steadfast in his cultivation of Falun Dafa and made use of different ways to clarify the truth to people about Falun Dafa. In 2001 he was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor and was detained in the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province. After returning home, not only did perpetrators from the Sifangtuozi Forced Labor Prison in Zhenlai County withhold over one year of his past pay, they also fired him from his job. The police kept coming to his home to harass him, thus compelling him to go from place to place to avoid the persecution. On August 31, 2004, police officers abducted him. They were from the Changyi Police Department in Jilin City.

Category: Accounts of Persecution