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Sun Feng was the second son of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xiuxia, who was tortured to death in 2003. After suffering the hardship of losing his mother, and after his father was forced to leave home to avoid being arrested at home, fourteen-year-old Sun Feng died of leukemia on August 25, 2005.

Sun Feng's family lives in Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province. His father has had to live away from home since 2000 in order to avoid being illegally arrested at home because he practices Falun Gong. His mother Wang Xiuxia was also a Falun Gong practitioner. She was arrested on May 29, 2003 by police from the First Office of the Fushun City Police Department, and was tortured to death only sixteen days later at the Fushun City Detention Center at the age of 42.

Sun Feng was only twelve years old. Besides bearing the pain of losing his loving mother, he was also worried about the safety of his father. He was living in terror, which severely damaged his mental state and his body. He became very quiet and withdrawn ever since then. Sun Feng was cared for by relatives. At the end of December 2004, he became very weak and was diagnosed with leukemia. He passed out many times and was sent to the hospital for emergency rescue. Sun Feng died in August 25, 2005.

Relevant articles:
More Information on Mrs. Wang Xiuxia's Death in 2003

Information About Sun Feng, the Orphaned Son of Murdered Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Xiuxia of Fushun City, Liaoning Province

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Weiyun from Zhengzhou City, Henan Province died on October 26, 2005 as a result of abuse by police officers from the National Security Group of the Zhengzhou City Railroad Police Department.

Mr. Zhang Weiyun was 62 years old and started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. He was illegally arrested by police from the National Security Group of the Zhengzhou City Railroad Police Department and was detained. At the time, his blood pressure was as high as 220mm. He was sent to the hospital for emergency rescue many times, but the police still refused to release him. Finally Mr. Zhang was released on medical parole.

Although Zhang Weiyun was released, he was extremely weak and had an unfocused mind, which was the result of being tortured during detention. National Security Agent Wang Zhaoli (male) from the National Security Group of the Zhengzhou City Railroad Police Department often harassed and threatened Mr. Zhang at home. Mr. Zhang's son once warned the police, "My father was already tortured during detention, and cannot be frightened any more. Stop harassing us from now on!" Wang Zhaoli and the other officers never paid attention to his warning. Mr. Zhang's condition worsened and rescue effort failed. He died on October 26, 2005.

Contact information:

The National Security Group of Zhengzhou City Railroad Police Department: 86-371-66991803

Group Leaders: Wang Zhaoli and Zhang (gender unknown)

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Sheng Lixia from Dandong City, Liaoning Province originally had a very happy family and a good job. She persisted in Falun Gong cultivation and was a good person who lived according to "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." However, because of the persecution of Falun Gong, the lawless officials' constant brutal harassment compelled her husband to leave Ms. Sheng and she became separated from her son. Her life was suddenly in great danger.

In May 2002, Wang Yuntao and Zhao Shengchen, employees at the company where Ms. Sheng worked, attempted to force her to give up practicing Falun Gong. When they didn't achieve their purpose, they sent her to the local forced labor camp's brainwashing sessions for further persecution. Because Sheng Lixia persisted in cultivation practice, the male police officers put her in handcuffs and used two electric batons to alternately shock her head and body. When Sheng Lixia was released, both wrists were covered with bruises and she couldn't move. Her body showed lines of bruises.

One night in September 2002 at 11:00 p.m., the police broke into Sheng Lixia's home and forcibly took her to the police station. They handcuffed her in a metal cage. Her twenty-month-old daughter woke up in the middle of the night crying for her mom. Sheng Lixia went on a hunger strike to protest the abuse and the trampling of her rights. She was sent to the detention center investigation room and handcuffed on a metal chair for six days and six nights, interrogated for twenty-four hours and forbidden to sleep. She was even subjected to the tortures of the "big hang-up," forced half-squatting and had to endure brutal force-feeding. Sheng Lixia went on a hunger strike for thirteen days and her life was endangered. Her family members paid for her release on medical bail. Seven days later, personnel from the police bureau used the excuse of asking for some information, deceived Ms. Sheng Lixia's family members and took her to the police bureau, where they incarcerated her in the detention center again.

In November 2002, Ms. Sheng Lixia was sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and tortured. At that time, Masanjia was trying hard to "reform" the steadfast Falun Gong practitioners under force. In the beginning they would use threats, then sleep deprivation, forced squatting, and forcing practitioners to stand for extended periods of time. If the perpetrators did not achieve their goal, they would then send practitioners to the "Assisting Education Group." The Assisting Education Group was in reality a group of thugs hired by Masanjia to brutally "transform" practitioners.

Sheng Lixia was sent to the Shenyang Assisting Education Group. A male prisoner working with the Assisting Education Group attempted to force her to sit on a Falun Gong book. When she refused, they beat her brutally, and slapped her face repeatedly. When they were tired of beating her, they threw Sheng Lixia against the wall with such force that her head hit the wall and she lost consciousness. They pinched an accupressure point on her philtrum for a long time and she finally came to. When one male police officer from the Assisting Education Group saw Ms. Sheng on the floor, he went up to her and kicked her several feet. Ms. Sheng Lixia protested this new round of abuse with a hunger strike. They forced her to sit in the meditating position and tied a rope around her body. Ms. Sheng was fixed in that position for ten hours. Later, they put her legs in the double lotus position and twisted them like a pretzel, injuring Ms. Sheng Lixia so badly that she could not walk for over a month.

Because Ms. Sheng Lixia refused to give up cultivation practice, in January 2003 police officer Xuefeng took her to the captain's bathroom. He handcuffed both of her hands behind her back, attached another handcuff to the first set and connected the other end to the heating pipe. Because Ms. Sheng Lixia is short, she was suddenly hanging in the air. The handcuffs cut into her wrists. It was extremely painful. There are still visible handcuff marks on her wrists.

In May 2003, during another round of escalated persecution, Ms. Sheng Lixia was locked in the Second Team captain's bathroom. She didn't cooperate with the unreasonable demands of the evildoers and shouted, "Falun Dafa is great" and was pushed to the bathroom floor. Because she had not slept for several days, Ms. Sheng Lixia was exhausted. She fell on the floor and could not get up, and stayed on the cold and wet bathroom floor for another day and night. The next morning, police officer Xue Feng taped Sheng Lixia's mouth shut with adhesive tape and handcuffed her hands behind her back. When the other practitioners went downstairs to eat, the perpetrators carried Ms. Sheng to the first floor storage room to continue abusing her. They wound a rope around Sheng Lixia's chest several times and then tied it tight and hung her on the heating pipe with her toes barely touching the floor. They grabbed her hair and slammed her face into the wall, making it difficult for her to breathe. She almost lost consciousness, and she lost control of her bladder as a result of the shock. After that, they only allowed Sheng Lixia to sleep for four or five hours a day and forced her to do hard labor. The hard labor was often beyond her physical ability. Under such savage abuse and torture, Ms. Sheng started to show symptoms of heart failure.

In December 2003, the time designated to "reform" practitioners was lengthened, and the abuse under the persecution was allowed to go on even longer. Sheng Lixia was sent to the Benxi Assisting Education Group. They handcuffed her hands behind her back, only this time one hand was brought down over her shoulder and one hand was brought up from behind her back. Her legs were forced into the lotus position and tied with rope. They used rope to tie her head and the rope together, forcing her body into a ball shape, then they placed Ms. Sheng on a Falun Gong book. Her arms were injured, and she developed severe heart problems. Sheng Lixia often had rapid heartbeat after that and often lost consciousness and even went into shock.

At the end of April 2004, Sheng Lixia developed chest pain. She was taken to the hospital. Police officer Ren Hongzan forcibly injected her with an unknown substance. When Ms. Sheng Lixia tried to remove the needle, Ren Hongzan pressed down both of her hands tightly and used his elbow against her throat, preventing her from breathing until her whole body shook uncontrollably. Later, Ms. Sheng Lixia was locked in a bathroom.

On December 2004, a fellow practitioner gave Ms. Sheng Lixia one of Master Li's articles but it was discovered by the guards. Ren Hongzan did a body search and took the article away by force. Ms. Sheng Lixia called out loudly, "Falun Dafa is Great!" Police officer Huang Haiyan locked her in a small, cold cell and extended her term by three months. At that time it had just snowed and the weather was extremely cold. The window of the small cell was left open and the temperature inside the cell was the same as outside. Ms. Sheng Lixia didn't have a winter coat, and she was freezing and shaking. In the middle of the night she had leg cramps. During the ten days of her lock-up in the small cell, the guards forbade Ms. Sheng from washing her face and brushing her teeth. They allowed her only three daily bathroom breaks. She was only given steamed buns and salted pickles to eat, and had to drink water from a big bucket in the bathroom; who knows low long that water had been standing in the bucket.

After she was released from the small cell, Sheng Lixia protested with a hunger strike and was force-fed. Dr. Cao, who oversaw the force-feeding by the police, was extremely cruel. They roughly shoved the tube into Ms. Sheng's nose and mouth, tearing her nasal cavity and mouth. After struggling for over half an hour and with a lot of effort, they managed to insert the tube into her stomach. During one incident of force-feeding through Ms. Sheng's nose, blood ran all over the ground. When they removed the tube, Ms. Sheng Lixia vomited a lot blood. Being force-fed a half basin of semi-cooked corn gruel made her stomach hurt and gave her heartburn. This twice-daily force-feeding was charged to the practitioners at a rate of approximately 160 yuan and the cost of the feeding tube and needles was additional. The captain immediately deducted this amount from Sheng Lixia's canteen credit card.

Sheng Lixia's hunger strike lasted for eighteen days, and she became extremely weak. When her family came to visit her and saw how her health was so bad, they asked Captain Su Jing to allow her to get a physical check-up. Su Jing promised she would take care of it. Later, when she saw Sheng Lixia eating, she didn't mention the physical examination anymore and avoided her parents. Later yet, Ms. Sheng's father found Su Jing and requested an explanation and the names of those responsible for the torture of his daughter. Su Jing said sarcastically, "Feel free to sue us!" Her parents were then referred to the captain in charge, Wang Xiaofeng. However, Masanjia abused Falun Gong practitioners on personal orders from the director, instigated by the captain in charge. The captain protected those who persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and had become afraid of repercussion because of their bad deeds. Wang Xiaofeng then promised Ms. Sheng's parents they could have her released on medical bail for hospitalization, but when her parents left they changed their mind right away.

Two days before the Chinese New Year, Zhou Yuzhen, Wei Yanhua and many other Falun Gong practitioners were illegally sentenced and sent to the Shengyang Prison. Seeing her fellow practitioner being thus persecuted, Ms. Sheng Lixia loudly called out, "Falun Dafa is Great! It's sinful to persecute Falun Gong practitioners," and, "Stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners!" In the afternoon, guard Huang Haiyan called Ms. Sheng out. Four officers approached from behind and pushed her to the ground, dragged her along and pulled her into a small cell. On the way Ms. Sheng Lixia called out, "Falun Dafa is Great! Stop persecuting Falun Gong!"

When she got to the small cell, the guards handcuffed Ms. Sheng Lixia to a metal chair, one hand fixed on each side. A male guard cruelly kicked her chest and said ruthlessly, "If you shout again, I'll beat you again." Sheng Lixia said loudly to him, "Persecuting Falun Gong practitioners is a sin!" The guard walked up to her and slapped her face several times. She still loudly called out: "It's a sin to persecute Falun Gong practitioners!" The guard walked away, angry.

Ms. Sheng Lixia and four other Falun Gong practitioners were locked in the small cell. It was quite cold in the small cell. Ms. Sheng Lixia was shackled to a metal chair and could not move. At night she could only sleep sitting up. A loudspeaker played noise at high decibels that could make one deaf in twenty-four hours. This prevented them from sleeping, a brutal form of psychological torture.

Sheng Lixia had chest pain from the loud noise and lost consciousness; the police, however, still used the loudspeaker to play this earsplitting noise. Ten days later, after she was released from the small cell, Ms. Sheng Lixia had been tortured to an extremely weak condition. She still refused to cooperate with the persecution and would not wear the prison uniform. Guard Huang Haiyan forcibly put it on her. Ms. Sheng promptly took it off. With Huang Haiyan tearing at her, Ms. Sheng experienced chest pain again and her whole body shook constantly. Afterwards, she protested with yet another hunger strike. Five days later, Ms. Sheng came out of the evil's den; however, she had been tortured to the point of complete exhaustion and was close to death.

The persecution that Ms. Sheng Lixia suffered is only the tip of the iceberg of how the personnel at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp savagely persecute Falun Gong practitioners. In the non-stop brutal persecution, many Falun Gong practitioners have been injured, paralyzed and some have been tortured to death.

Falun Gong practitioner Wang Yuhua from the Changping District in Beijing has suffered extensive, brutal persecution in the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp. The following is an account of her persecution experiences:

Ms. Wang Yuhua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Changping District, was arrested and imprisoned in the Beijing Women's Labor Camp during the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2002. The evil criminals tried to coerce Wang Yuhua into renouncing Falun Gong, but were met with strong resistance from her. Wang Yuhua was made to stand upright without rest for ten days and nine nights, until she fell onto the floor from the torture on the tenth day. Her hipbone was dislocated and she was unable to move. She was subsequently sent to the Tiantanghe Hospital of Daxing County by the labor camp for treatment. Externally, the labor camp announced that Wang Yuhua suffered the injury from a fall while she was bathing, and the Beijing Television Station recorded Wang Yuhua in the hospital before using it as propaganda to tell its viewers how the labor camp cares for Falun Gong practitioners. In reality, Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to be "transformed" are given solitary detention and prohibited from reaching the outside world. Within this period of time, even their toilet use is restricted, much less bathing. The authorities even forced her to walk along a very long corridor to the toilet. The pain made her unable to stand upright and she could only nudge herself little by little by bending down 90 degrees and using a small stool to support her body. Moreover, her personal cangues would stand beside her, shouting at her and mocking her the entire time. The labor camp also rotates several groups of helpers to try to force her into submission daily. They make her sit motionless every day for up to twenty hours per day, and brutally beat her if she makes the slightest movement. There was even a period of time when she was not allowed to eat even 100 grams (3.5 oz.) of rice per day, and the constant starvation and injuries tormented her nonstop.

In November 2003, Wang Yuhua finally walked out of the Beijing Women's Labor Camp righteously with her strong belief in Teacher and Falun Gong. Having been diagnosed by the Tiantanghe Hospital doctors as permanently injured and unable to recuperate, Wang Yuhua has fully recovered and is now already back to normal.

After returning home, Wang Yuhua has persevered in cultivating Falun Gong. On September 28 of this year, the village council interrogated Wang Yuhua, and the Changping Public Security Bureau and the local police station made use of the opportunity to break into and ransack her home, confiscating her Falun Gong books and truth clarification materials. Wang Yuhua went to them to ask for her books back and to clarify the truth, but the criminals tried to shirk their responsibility by saying that they had no choice but to do it because it was an order from above.

Ministry of Justice:
24-hour Surveillance Room: 86-10-65205315, 86-10-65942233
Fax: 86-10-65205316
Minister's Office: 86-10-65205307
Prison Bureau: 86-10-63159466, 86-10-63159468
Labor Camp Bureau: 86-10-65206315, 86-10-65206316
Beijing City Ministry of Justice
Fax: 86-10-63408054
Office: 86-10-63408056

The Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp and the Banqiao Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin use many torture methods to persecute practitioners. These two labor camps are the primary locations where Tianjin practitioners are being persecuted. The following lists a few of the practitioners who have endured persecution in the Tianjin area.

Mr. Liu Liankun, 36, lived in the Beichen District. In April 2000, Mr. Liu was arrested and sent to the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. Because he refused to renounce his beliefs, his term was prolonged by one additional year after he had already spent two years in the labor camp. Mr. Liu was tortured many times at the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. In April 2003, he was re-arrested by the 610 Office in Beichen and was later sent to the Banqiao Forced Labor Camp. On December 24, 2003, the police transferred him to the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp to hide the fact that he had been tortured and persecuted. On April 27, 2005, he walked out of the labor camp.

Mr. Chu Jidong, 34, lived in the Dagang District. In October 1999, Mr. Chu was arrested and sent to the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. In October 2000, his term was extended for one year because he refused to renounce his belief in Falun Gong. In October 2001, the 610 Office in Dagang transferred him to the Banqiao Forced Labor Camp, where the police used all kinds of torture on him. Some policemen even threatened that if he would not renounce Falun Gong, his only way out would be death. Despite these threats, in October 2005, he walked out of the labor camp.

Mr. Huang Qiaoli, 40, was arrested for the second time by the officers from the Duzhuang Police Station in the Dongli area of Tianjin City on March 20, 2003. During his imprisonment in the Dongli Detention Center, the director named Li beat him many times. In the Banqiao Forced Labor Camp, the disciplinary unit tortured him using atechnique termed "one step to heaven," wherein a practitioner's head is covered with a plastic bag after his or her mouth is stuffed with dirty socks. (This same torture was also used on practitioner Xiao Shuli.) As a result of torture, Mr. Huang's left leg was numb for three months. Later Mr. Huang was transferred to the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. In May 2005, he made a solemn declaration nullifying any past words or behaviors made under duress that didn't meet the standard of a practitioner. Because of his declaration, the police beat him so ruthlessly that injuries covered his body. In May 2005, he walked out of the labor camp. His former workplace, the Tianjin Pipe Corporation, following the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s policy of persecuting practitioners economically, didn't allow him to return to work. Fellow Pipe Corporation employee Zhu Gang was fired for being a practitioner as well.

Mr. Han Yade, 34, held two bachelors degrees. He used to work at Motorola in Tianjin before he was illegally arrested. In late 2004 after he was arrested for the second time, he went on a hunger strike in protest. When he walked out of the labor camp on July 10, 2005, he was bloated and retaining fluid. During his nine-month hunger strike, the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp never stopped trying to brainwash him or physically torturing him. Several sources have confirmed that Mr. Han Yade passed away in late July.

Mr. Ma Jian, 32, is still detained at the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin. In late 2004, Mr. Ma went on hunger strike for two months to protest the slave labor he was forced to do for 18 hours a day. In May 2005, the police again intensified their attempts to brainwash him, as well as their physical torture of him, leaving injuries all over his body. At this time, Mr. Ma is still on hunger strike.

After reading the article "China's Forced Labor Camps Sexually Abuse Falun Gong Practitioners" (http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-10-21/33602.html), I deeply feel that the tyranny and poison from CCP's culture has turned China's police and officials into beings that cannot discern right from wrong, good from bad, and virtue from evil. I want to expose one of the cases where I learned how the police departments and the judicial departments in China persecuted benevolent Falun Gong practitioners.

Ms. Sun Juan started practicing Falun Gong in 1998. She followed the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," and became an honest and kind woman. She gradually felt that she knew how to be a truly good person.

In October 1999, Ms. Sun, 21, went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. She wanted to explain how she benefited from the practice. She thought that if she explained about the goodness of Falun Gong, it would warrant a re-investigation, and thus clear Teacher and Falun Gong's name. She didn't know what awaited her.

When Ms. Sun arrived in Beijing, the police officers who were specially ordered by Jiang's regime to intercept, arrest and persecute appealing practitioners arrested her. After learning of her intention, they insulted and brutally beat her. Then several police officers ripped off Ms. Sun's top and said, "We will report your opinion to the higher authorities, but you must tell us you name and address." At the same time, they started taking off her pants. They slapped Mr. Sun's face so hard that it became swollen.

Ms. Sun was detained in the local police station, and in June 2000, she was sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. That was the first time she was imprisoned. She was released eighteen months later.

She was persecuted again in April 2002. The police detained her first for four days in the Zhongshan District National Security Division in Dalian City, and then held her in the Dalian Detention Center for 50 days. Later she was sentenced to three years of forced labor and served in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

After thirty-four months in Masanjia, right before she was released, the camp sent her to the Shenyang Psychiatric Hospital. In the hospital, they injected her with unknown drugs. Ms. Sun eventually developed neurological symptoms and became mentally disoriented.

In February 2005, Ms. Sun's sister went to Masanjia to pick her up. The police extorted 2,000 yuan from her. In April, Ms. Sun's family went to Masanjia to ask for the money back. Officer Huang Haiyan told them that Ms. Sun's sentence had been extended to November. Ms. Sun's sister called to ask for details, so the police put her under surveillance. They arrested her later and took her to the Dalian Brainwashing Center.

What four years in prison did to Ms. Sun is beyond description. When Ms. Sun was in Masanjia, she refused to cooperate with officers Wang Xiaofeng and Zhang Chunguang and would not renounce Falun Gong. When she was unable to take the pressure, she swallowed a hair clip. Her health worsened and the police released her after ten days to avoid any responsibility in case she died.

After Ms. Sun got home, they continued making harassing phone calls to her at her home.

Ms. Gong Yuxiu, a Falun Gong practitioner from Taihe County, Jiangxi Province, was persecuted to the brink of death when she was sent to the hospital. With righteous thoughts she managed to escape, but now she has to go from place to place, unable to return home because of the persecution. The police posted "wanted" notices everywhere and the local TV station broadcasted the notice on prime time, offering 10,000 yuan to anyone who would provide information leading to the arrest of their so-called "escaped prisoner."

Just from this TV notice, it's obvious that what they did was illegal and dishonest. They did not even dare to mention Falun Gong in the notice. Having people learn the facts is what they fear most, so they tricked those who did not know the truth and led them to persecute good people. They took advantage of people's greed and lured people to betray their own hearts for money.

The perpetrators in Taihe County have escalated the persecution of Falun Gong students since last year. They have mobilized all levels and departments of the government, even using the Public Security Bureau and the National Security Bureau to strictly monitor and follow practitioners and harass their families. They have installed monitoring devices in community living compounds, and even hired the vagrants and local thugs to follow practitioners. These activities undermine the law.

The police arrested Falun Gong practitioners Yuan Ruiling, Chen Guifeng, Gong Yuxiu and Li Gongchan at the end of 2004 by using the above methods. During the interrogation, police deprived practitioners of sleep for several days and nights. Yuan Ruilin went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and they broke two of his teeth by force-feeding him. Gong Yuxiu went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution as well. At one point Gong Yuxiu's life was in critical danger. The situation of the other practitioners is unknown. The perpetrators have not allowed their family members to meet them or send them any money or items.

In June 2004 the practitioners who had been illegally detained for half a year came together to protest the persecution. One day in the middle of June, the perpetrators brought four practitioners to court and tried to put them on trial. They tried to impose fabricated charges on them, but the practitioners firmly resisted. Because of the practitioners' righteous thoughts and righteous actions, the trial failed to proceed.

Phone number for the First Section of the Public Security Bureau of Taihe County, Jiangxi Province: 86-796-5332412

Phone number for Lin Zhiyong: 86-796-5339090 (Home), 86-13507964666 (Cell)

Mrs. Hao Zhimei, 61, was a retired teacher from Yitian Elementary School in Jianhua District, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province. Police arrested her in mid-March of 2005 and informed her family later that month that Mrs. Hao died. Mrs. Hao's relatives were not allowed to see her body or request an autopsy.

Mrs. Wang Junxiao, 68, lived in Xizhaozhuang Village, Xicheng Township, Dingzhou City, Hebei Province. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. Since the nationwide crackdown began on July 20, 1999, Mrs. Wang had been harassed numerous times. Police frequently searched and ransacked her home. Mrs. Wang's daughter had also been persecuted for her belief in Falun Gong. Mrs. Wang endured tremendous physical and mental pressure for too long and suffered a mental breakdown. She passed away on June 20, 2005.

Mrs. Zhou Yafan, 45, lived in the Xida Community, Chuanying District, Jilin City, Jilin Province. She worked as a kindergarten assistant. She began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. Police often searched her home. On August 25, 1999, police broke into her home and confiscated her Falun Gong materials and Master's picture. Mrs. Zhou was sent to a brainwashing session in September. Later that month, she went to appeal in Beijing and was sentenced to one year in forced labor. When she was released a year later, police kept her under constant surveillance. Police would question her whenever she left home. Unable to bear any longer such long-term mental pressure, Mrs. Zhou died of a heart attack on May 24, 2005.

Ms. Lin Xiuqin, 68, lived in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Between 1999 and 2000, she went twice to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and clarify the facts in Beijing. She was detained for half a month there. Police frequently threatened and harassed her. The intense mental pressure overwhelmed Ms. Lin, and she died on June 14, 2005.

Ms. Pang Fengying, 86, lived by herself in Liguan Village, Xili Township, Xiajin County, Shandong Province. Before practicing Falun Gong in 1997, she had had poor health and needed much medicine. The practice greatly improved her health. She could even fetch by hand over 20 buckets of water from a deep well to water her vegetable garden every day. She could rise at 4 each morning to do the exercises. Her ill temper disappeared as well. During the persecution, policemen Wang Shuhai and others came to harass her at her home many times. Police often threatened her to try to get her to stop practicing Falun Gong and confiscated her Falun Gong material. Ms. Pang could not withstand the evil pressure and stopped practicing. Her former illnesses recurred, and she died on February 9, 2005.

Usually he wasn't visible in his activities. He often followed practitioners or hid out and monitored them so that he could report practitioners' personal information to the authorities.

1. [Yingyang County, Henan Province] Wang Hui Arrested and Sentenced

As reported in the July 29 Zhengzhou Daily, Mr. Wang Hui, 23, from Yingyang County, Henan Province was sentenced to one year forced labor in March 2003 for telling people the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong. After his release in March 2004, he purchased a portable computer, printer and other equipment to download truth-clarification material from Internet. He produced and distributed flyers and VCDs locally, recorded facts of the persecution of Falun Gong perpetrated in his local area, and published such information on the Internet. He was arrested soon after. The Yingyang Court sentenced Wang Hui to six years in prison.

2. [Xiantao City, Hubei Province] Ms. Zhan Junmei and Ms. Fan Junxia Sentenced to Forced Labor

Ms. Zhan Junmei from Xiantao City, Hubei Province and Ms. Fan Junxia from Tianmen City were arrested in Xiantao in early July 2005. They were sentenced to one year of forced labor and taken to Shayang Forced Labor Camp. They are being subjected to torture at the camp. Zhan Junmei has been sentenced a third time to forced labor.

3. [Beijing] Pinggu District Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested

At 2:00 p.m. on February 21, 2005, Mr. Ma Zhanquan and his wife Ms. Tian Shurong were arrested when they delivered material to Mr. Wang Shuqi at Fengtai Village, Dulehe Town, Pinggui District. Wang Shuqi and his wife were also arrested.

Staff members from the 1st Group of Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp are now torturing Wang Shuqi. Ma Zhanquan and his wife, and Wang Shuqi and his wife had already served time in a forced labor camp earlier. They were released at different times in 2004. Before Wang Shuqi was sent to the forced labor camp the first time, he was illegally detained at Daxing District for six months.

Relevant phone numbers:
Beijing Pinggu District Police Department: 86-10-69961271
National Security Unit: 86-10-69962880
Detention center: 86-10-69961219
Chengguan Police Station: 86-10-69961203

4. [Kunshan City, Heilongjiang Province] Rong Encheng Detained at the Kunshan National Security Group

Mr. Rong Encheng, 47, from Heilongjiang Province, works in the southern area. He was arrested at 1:00 a.m. when spray-painting truth-clarification information on walls. He is being detained at the National Security Group of the Kunshan City Police Department.

5. [Kaiyang County, Guizhou Province] Ms. Chen Xuehui Taken to a Brainwashing Center

Police agents of Guiyang City arrested Ms. Chen Xuehui from Longgang Town, Kaiyang County, Guizhou Province at her home on July 19, 2005. She was fined 2,000 yuan and taken to the Lannigou Brainwashing Center of Guiyang, where she is being tortured.

Guiyang Lannigou Brainwashing Center: 86-85-13762696
Head of Center: Lin

6. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Zhang Qingxi of Yuanshi County Sentenced to Forced Labor

Mr. Zhang Qingxi of Yuanshi County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province was deceived while at home on March 12 or 13, 2005. They took him to the 3rd Squadron of the 5th Group of the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp. After more than six months his family has not been told why he was taken to the forced labor camp and for how long he will be detained.

7. [Mulan County, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Ji Fengqin Tortured into a Comatose State

Ms. Ji Fengqin was dragged away by the staff from Mulan County No. 2 Police Station of Heilongjiang Province on March 3, 2004. She was sentenced to eighteen months of forced labor and is detained and being subjected to torture at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City.

On July 27, 2005, Ms. Ji's family was notified by the Harbin City Armed Police Hospital to pick her up. Her family found that Ji Fengqin was on oxygen and very emaciated. She was comatose and appeared to be dying.

8. [Shanhaiguan, Hebei Province] Xu Fuxin Arrested

Mr. Xu Fuxin, who is over 50, is from Shanhaiguan, Hebei Province. He was arrested by local plainclothes police while posting Falun Gong truth-clarification materials on the night of July 20, 2005. He is being held at the No. 3 Detention Center.

9. [Tonghe County, Heilongjiang Province] Fu Hai and Four Other Practitioners Arrested

On July 20, 2005, Mr. Fu Hai, 36, Ms. Liu Ying, over 40, and Mr. Li Min, 31, of Tonghe County, Heilongjiang Province, along with two more unnamed practitioners were arrested. Fu Hai, Liu Ying and Li Min are held at the Tonghe County Detention Center. The other two practitioners who refused to give their names were taken away by the Heilongjiang Province Police Department to an unknown location. Fu Hai, Liu Ying and Li Min are on hunger strikes to resist the persecution in the Tonghe County Detention Center.

10. [Tongcheng County, Hubei Province] Hong Haihua Taken to Shayang Forced Labor Camp

Hong Haihua from Tongcheng, Hubei Province was arrested and detained by police from the political security section of the Tongcheng County Police Department on July 20, 1999. Around November 2004, Hong Haihua was arrested and taken to Shayang Forced Labor Camp. No release date is known.

11. [Guangan City, Sichuan Province] Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Wusheng County

Ms. Liu Gaoju, 66, lives at No. 18 Shangdong Street, Wusheng County. She is a retired employee of the Wusheng County Vegetable Company. She was detained at Wusheng Detention Center from February to December 2002. After her detention she served two years of forced labor on parole.

Ms. Zheng Lingfeng, 60, is a retired teacher of Wusheng High School. From November 2003 to June 2004, she served a sentence outside the forced labor camp.

Mr. Tang Zhong, 35, is a teacher of Feizhen High School in Wusheng County. He was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor in February 2002. He was released after eleven months.

Mr. Yu Chunlin is from Team 8 of Wangxiangping Village, Jinniu Town, Wusheng County. He was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor in Anhui Province.

Mr. Yu Jianmin, Mr. Shen Changguo, Ms. Tan Qunying, Ms. Lu Chaoqun, Ms. Yang Yuhua, Ms. Mao Xiqiong, Ms. Long Qingqiong, Mr. Chen Tianxiao, Mr. Zhang Shengguo, Yang Hongbi, Mr. Shao Changming and Mr. Tan Xingyuan are all still detained.

Ms. Liu Xueshu and Ms. Wang Xilan of north Guangan were arrested for handing out Falun Gong truth-clarification materials on July 21, 2005.

12. [Jidong City, Heilongjiang Province] Shi Xiaochun Arrested

On June 13, 2005, Mr. Shi Xiaochun, 46, from Jidong City, Heilongjiang Province was reported when he was clarifying the truth to people on the train from Jidong City to Changchun City. The train police took him to the Harbin City Railway Detention Center. After twenty days of illegal imprisonment, Mr. Shi was taken to Wanjia Forced Labor Camp for one or two days, and then transferred to the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp.

13. [Huizhou City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Li Niangxin Homeless to Escape the Persecution - Family Members Threatened

Ms. Li Niangxin of Dayawan, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province became homeless to escape the persecution by Tan Jinyun and his policemen. They are from the National Security Group of Dayawan Police Department. Tan Jinyun also came to her home to threaten her elder brother with a jail term unless Ms. Li returned home.

Dayawan Police Department's National Security Group, Tan Jinyun's police badge number: 516081
Phone: 86-752-5577541, 86-13802358848 (Cell)

14. [Yunnan Province] Ten Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested

On July 30, 2005, ten Yunnan Falun Gong practitioners including Ms. Wang Lan, Ms. Gao Hong, Ms. Mao Danxin, Ms. Li Jinping, Ms. Zhao Yongmei, Mr. Zhao Chenyu and Sun Yunji were arrested.