The Banqiao Women's Labor Camp in Tianjin City is a living hell. On January 16, 2006, when Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Ping was sent there, she was a very healthy, newly graduated from college young lady, but she is dying now. She doesn't have any energy and she cannot get up from bed.

Ms. Li was deprived of sleep, forced to stand a long time, and locked in a solitary confinement cell under strict monitoring for a long time. Li Ping has been tortured inhumanly. The persecutors did not even let her drink water or eat. There are four inmates watching her. They gave her only a piece of bread as a meal, but not any vegetables or anything to drink. Li Ping is very thin, and her lack of energy is due to malnutrition.

Ms. Li Ping shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" The guards ordered the drug addicted prisoners to slap her face. Ms. Li Ping is being tortured inhumanly because she firmly keeps her righteous faith. From March 3, 2006 to this day, Ms. Li Ping has been on a hunger strike to protest the long-term mental and physical tortures. She cannot get out bed, has a blurry mind, and is anemic. Ms. Li is being force-fed. On March 26, 2006, her family visited her. Ms. Li Ping was carried out by her monitors; there was no chair, and her family members barely finished several sentences while they were standing there, before she was carried back. Her eyes were closed, and she didn't have any energy to talk at all.

Everyone should have human feelings, but the guards' office head, Liu Yuxia (female) and guard Li Wenjing (female, in charge of watching Ms. Li Ping) have hearts of stone. No matter how much Li Ping's family requested that they release her, they always replied, "She is not sick enough to be released! We do not take responsibility if she dies."

Ms. Li Ping wrote a letter on March 2, 2006, but it arrived at her home on April 13, 2006. There is only a 40-minute driving distance between her home and the labor camp. This letter traveled for 42 days within the same city. There was no response to Ms. Li Ping's appeal letter. According to Chinese Communist Party regulations, she was allowed to appeal within 60 days of her being sentenced to forced labor.

Recently, a friend of mine emailed me some news from the overseas media. The news was about police officers from the electric plant in Huozhou City (Shanxi Province) who were illegally searching Falun Gong practitioners' houses and torturing them for information. After reading this, I felt that the news reported was just the tip of the iceberg. During the last few years, I and my co-workers learned of numerous shocking stories about the persecution during our interviews. In this remote province, many people have been persecuted for practicing Falun Gong, many families have been broken apart, and many people have died. The following are just few examples.

In Yuncheng Forced Labor Camp (Shanxi Province) many Falun Gong practitioners should have had a chance to see their families at the Chinese New Year of 2006, but the labor camp officials took this opportunity to torture them and their families. They allowed Falun Gong practitioners' families to come to the labor camp, but when the families were there, the labor camp didn't allow the families to see the practitioners face to face. Instead, they made the practitioners see the families from the back. Then they ended the visits and claimed that this or that practitioner didn't maintain good behavior in the labor camp, so he or she could not meet with the family members. If they wanted to meet with their family, then they would have to write the "guarantee letter" and slander Falun Gong. A practitioner whose last name is Zhang has been jailed there seven times and hasn't seen his family for two years. Practitioner Pan Jing's wife came to visit her husband. She was taken to the visiting room, was forced to take off her clothes, and was sexually harassed by a guard for thirty minutes. She endured the harassment in order to see her husband, but then she was not allowed to see him. She cried at home. If her neighbor hadn't talked her out of it, she would have killed herself.

On November 30, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners Lu Ming and his wife started a hunger strike to protest the torture in a detention center in Datong City, Shanxi Province. The guards and seven criminals force-fed them. The torturers inserted plastic tubes into their throats, and then pulled them in and out, back and forth several times. Sometimes they even poked into their bronchiole. Blood sprang out from their noses and mouths. Lu Ming and his wife passed out several times. One week later, they were transferred to another secret prison.

In August 2004, under the chief of the CCP's Political and Judiciary Committee in Shanxi Province, Du, the police department in Taiyuan City (the capital of Shanxi) installed a powerful surveillance and spying system. This system spied on every online computer in the city, and it focused on Falun Gong practitioners' activities. It can spy on and look for a practitioner's physical address, once it detects a practitioner's action on the Internet. In one year alone, more than 100 cases related to practitioners' activities were found by this system. A woman practitioner named Fenglin from Jici City was identified by this system when she was on the Internet. Policemen pretended to be practitioners and talked to her online, saying they wanted to share their cultivation experiences with her at some place. When she got there, she was arrested. Fenglin was first jailed in a detention center and later transferred to the women's prison in Shanxi. The chief of the prison, Li, talked to her directly, and ordered a female guard to administer some unidentified drug. After having that drug, Fenglin's mind became very unclear, and she wrote more than twenty guarantee letters and repentance letters. The prison posted her repentance letters everywhere in the prison to brainwash others. According to Fenglin's family, she felt very bad about it. After being released, Fenglin suffered a mental collapse and could not recognize her own family.

Normal, healthy Falun Gong practitioners were sent to a mental hospital. In the mental hospital in the Changzhi area, every practitioner was tortured by three different means. The first one was beatings. Guards and criminals beat the practitioners badly. The second torture used was a mind-altering drug. The guards used "avoiding violent behavior" as an excuse and forced everybody to take the mind-altering drugs, which made practitioners' minds unclear. The guards then asked them to write the repentance letters. The third one was sleep deprivation. Some practitioners were not allowed to sleep for 24 hours, 36 hours and sometimes even 48 hours. It's much easier to brainwash a person who hasn't slept for a long time. For women practitioners, there was a fourth torture--rape. In the mental hospital in the Changzhi area, a 19-year-old girl, Xiao Yi, was raped 14 times in 3 nights. The rapists burned her breasts and private parts with cigarettes. Some young and pretty Falun Gong practitioners who were mentally healthy were driven to mental collapse by being raped many times.

There is a brainwashing center for Falun Gong practitioners at a place called Pangquangou, which is close to Beiwudang Mountain. It was built as a "key national security project" after a national security conference was held in Taiyuan City. The secretary of the CCP's committee in Shanxi, Zhang Baoshun, the deputy secretary of the CCP's committee in Shanxi, and the governor of Shanxi Province, Yu Youjun, were the direct leaders of this project, which was code-named the "058 Center." We directly or indirectly learned about several shocking incidences of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in this center, including poking practitioners' faces and bodies with needles. The practitioners were forced to take off their clothes and stand in the cold weather and have cold water poured on them, and the guards incited criminals to beat them. The practitioners were forced to curse the founder of Falun Gong every day and tear or destroy Falun Gong books. They were also forced to slap each other, and they were chained next to the toilet with their heads facing the toilet.

According to the deputy-chief of the Provincial Prison Management Bureau, Zhou, there are 289 confirmed death cases of practitioners in Shanxi. They were beaten to death. I don't know the numbers in other provinces, but this number is already very high. It represents a lot of lives. As reporters, we thought about writing to some departments in the Central Committee of the CCP, and we also thought about reporting those persecution cases to the headquarters of our newspaper in Beijing. We even hoped that those persecutions were committed by local guards and policemen, and that the CCP central committee leaders didn't know about it. But our supervising department in the CCP committee in Shanxi Province wouldn't allow us to report them. They also did not allow us to write to the department in the CCP central committee.

To be honest, most of the reporters don't dare to do so. Many people are afraid of losing their jobs, incomes, and comfortable lives, and they are afraid that they themselves and their families will be persecuted. However, we do have a conscience after all, and we do have some degree of justice. We will announce to the whole world that maybe we don't agree with Falun Gong practitioners on some of their concepts and ways of doing things, and maybe we don't practice Falun Gong, but we are absolutely against the mental and physical persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and the human rights violations.

Meanwhile, we also hope that in the future trials, people will separate us from those who committed the evil deeds and separate us from the evil system. So, I decided to tell the public the truth I know. To protect those victims, all the names mentioned in this article were changed, but the stories are true. Due to limitations, I cannot write about all that I learned, neither can I provide some pictures I took of the persecution. I can only ask friends for help to publish this article. I only hope more people will learn the truth, and the international media will put more pressure on those evil policemen to stop torturing kind people. Maybe one day I will face the international media and tell them everything I know, as Mr. Chen Yonglin did in Australia.

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As of March 17, 2006, more than 2,844 persecution-related deaths of Falun Gong practitioners have been verified and published on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. A further 1,200+ deaths have been reported, but not yet verified. Many more practitioners were illegally arrested and have disappeared. What has been exposed is only a tiny part of the persecution.

Torture-related deaths are spread over more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China. Among the victims, about 55% were women, and about 59% were over 50 years of age. They came from all walks of life. Some were savagely tortured to death; some died as a result of injections with toxic substances; some were pushed off buildings; some were deliberately run over by cars; some were burned to death, some were dragged to death behind racing motorcycles; some had their organs removed while still alive; some were tortured to the brink of death and passed away soon after they were released from detention.

On March 8, 2006, an informant from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) exposed the atrocities that took place inside the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, which shocked the world. The CCP is completely devoid of humanity in its fanatic genocide of Falun Gong. People can't help but ask, "Aside from harvesting organs from the living, how many more crimes remain hidden?"

(Continued from Part 2)

3. Terrifying Brutalities and Murder

3.1 Incidents of Violence Against Members of the Same Family

The CCP and Jiang's state-sanctioned terrorism persecution against Falun Gong has broken up countless happy families. Some families lost several members. The survivors live with daily great anguish.

The ordeal of a family of Falun Gong practitioners in Wuhan City

This is an ordinary family. The parents repair bicycles; the oldest son is a freelance sculptor; the younger son works in a company, and the daughter is unemployed. The family lived a serene and happy life. Within two months, however, two family members died as a result of persecution and the other three were incarcerated, only because they refused to give up their belief and exercised their freedom of speech to express their opinion.

The younger son Peng Min was illegally arrested in March 2000 and was brutally tortured at Qingling Detention Center in Wuhan City. On January 9, 2001 the guards beat Peng Min until his spine became shattered. He also suffered from a compression fracture of his neck. He was paralyzed, but the guards claimed he had "injured himself." After his mother took him home and he had slightly recovered, more than 30 officers from Wuhan City Riot Police Division took Peng Min to Wuhan City No. 7 Hospital for "treatment." During this period, the police watched him around the clock to prevent the truth from getting out. The hospital staff received instruction from the police and ignored Peng Min by not providing him treatment. Peng Min had lost all feelings below his head. The flesh on his back festered into a gaping hole. The hospital authorities declared, "Peng Min will not leave the hospital as long as he is still alive!" Peng Min passed away on April 6, 2001. The police secretly cremated his body the next day.

Peng Min

After Peng Min passed away, his brother Peng Liang and mother Li Yingxiu were sent to Hongxia Brainwashing Class and were separately held. On April 29, 2001, Li Yingxiu died 22 days after the death of her son. The police claimed she died from a "cerebral hemorrhage." Li Yingxiu's hair had been completely shaved; there were wounds on her head and blood inside her nose and mouth; there was blood on her clothes. One police officer who knew the truth said Li Yingxiu died because "she spoke too much after the death of her son."

The older son, Peng Liang, was detained many times and cruelly tortured. After the deaths of his younger brother and mother, Peng Liang risked his life and filed a lawsuit through the Internet with the International Court against Zhao Zhifei, the deputy head of Hubei Province Police Department, the head of 610 Office. Peng Liang was arrested in August 2001.

The youngest daughter Peng Yan is a simple and kind-hearted girl. She was detained many times and was later illegally sentenced to three years in prison. Toward the end of July 2001 she was transferred to Wuhan City Women's Prison. After the persecution of her brothers and mother were exposed, Jiang's group did everything possible to "reform" Peng Yan, in order to cover up their crimes and destroy evidence. Peng Yan suffered unimaginable abuse but she persisted in her belief. Torture had no effect on her. The prison authorities handpicked "outstanding" guards from different divisions and sent nearly 20 inmates to "take down the fort," which means to make her renounce her belief. They organized a "study class" that is in fact a brainwashing class just to torture her. Most vicious is the fact that the government stated that all of the inmates would be held without hope for release as long as Peng Yan persisted in her belief. They tried to take advantage of Peng Yan's good heart and created tremendous pressure for her in an attempt to destroy her will.

The father, Peng Weisheng, was also detained many times because he appealed and refused to give up his belief. In January 2002, Peng Weisheng was transferred to Wuchang District Brainwashing Class held by the 610 Office. The 610 Office authorities said, "Peng Weisheng will be held for an indefinite term if he doesn't "reform"."

Reporters from the Focal Point Interview program run by CCTV staged an interview with Peng Min and his family. Although the family pointed out the CCP's lies immediately, CCTV continued to fabricate slander to deceive people.

Chen Yunchuan and his family from Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province:

Three out of four siblings died from persecution; elderly parents detained many times

A family that practiced Falun Gong lived in Chanfangying Village, Beixinpu Town, Huailai County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. The father is Chen Yunchuan; the mother Wang Lianrong; the older daughter is Chen Shulan; her daughter is Li Ying; the older son is Chen Aizhong; the younger son is Chen Aili, and the younger daughter is Chen Hongping. Through Falun Gong practice, Chen Yunchuan was cured of his chronic back and leg pain; Wang Lianrong was cured of arthritis and cough that had plagued her for more than three decades. Her temperament improved, and the family benefited tremendous from Falun Gong.

Front row: father Chen Yunchuan and mother Wang Lianrong were both detained for their belief in Falun Gong.

Back row, from left to right: older son Chen Aizhong (died from persecution), younger daughter Chen Hongping (died from persecution), older daughter Chen Shulan (detained), younger son Chen Aili (died from persecution)

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, the older son Chen Aizhong persisted in his belief in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance and was sentenced to three years of forced labor. He was sent to the 1st Labor Camp in Tangshan City in Hebei Province on September 12, 2001. He died from torture eight days later. The younger daughter, Chen Hongping, was illegally arrested. Officers from the Donghuayuan Police Station in Huailai County beat her until both of her legs were fractured. She was then held at the Gaoyang Labor Camp for 18 months, during which time she underwent savage abuse. Ms. Chen died on March 5, 2003.

On February 28, 2004 the old couple Chen Yunchuan, Wang Lianrong and son Chen Aili were taken to the Shalingzi Brainwashing Class in Zhangjiakou City. They held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Two months later Chen Yunchuan and Chen Aili were under house arrest. Officers from Beixinpu Township sent people to keep them under surveillance around the clock. On July 9, Chen Aili, who was extremely weak from chronic harassment and mistreatment, left home and lived a homeless life to avoid further persecution of himself and his parents. He passed away on November 5.

Chen Shulan, the sole survivor of the four siblings, is held at the Tiantanghe Women's Labor Camp in Daxing County, Beijing. Her daughter Li Ying was arrested and held at the Changping District Nursing Home in Beijing.

Their suffering is typical of countless families that were torn apart and destroyed during this persecution.

3.2 Brutality Against Mothers and Infants

According to an investigation by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) and the Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners, it has been found that pregnant Falun Gong practitioners are not merely held in labor camps and prisons, but are subjected to torture and heavy physical labor to the point where they have spontaneous abortions. Cases exposed by the Minghui/Clearwisdom website as well as reports by a United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, special rapporteur on torture and special rapporteur of religion show additional cruelties. The persecutors even send these pregnant women to labor camps or continue to detain them and force them to undergo regime-ordered abortions. These incidents are widespread in China.

In the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province, a woman who was about seven months pregnant was hung up on a beam. Her hands were tied with a coarse rope that was hung over a pulley attached to the beam. The stool that supported her was removed, and she was suspended in the air. The beam was 3 to 4 meters (10 to 12 feet) above the ground. The rope went through the pulley; a prison guard held on to one end of the rope. When the guard pulled on the rope, the practitioner would be suspended in the air; as soon as the police let go of the rope, she would quickly fall to the ground. This pregnant woman suffered painful torture like this until she had a miscarriage. Even crueler was that her husband was forced to watch his wife endure the torture.

Zhang Hanyun, 33, from Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, had suffered from amenorrhea and couldn't get pregnant, even though the village administration committee had given her permission to have a baby five years ago. Less than six months after she started practicing Falun Gong her menses became normal and she conceived. Her whole family was grateful for Falun Gong. But last March, though she was pregnant and expecting her baby soon, she was still forced to attend a brainwashing class. To avoid persecution she hid with her relative's family. Under instructions from Hanzhong 610 Office staff members, the Beiguan Administrative Office closed down her father's and brother's construction sites in an attempt to force them to hand over Ms. Zhang. They also handcuffed Ms. Zhang's husband to the bridge over the Jialing River to humiliate him. Despite her family's suffering, in the end they still arrested Zhang Hanyun and sent her to a brainwashing class. When the staff realized Ms. Zhang would soon give birth, they took her to an employee hospital 30 km away and used an expansion technique dismembering the baby who was almost due, and removed the baby.

Wang Guijin lived in Xingzheng Village, Hua Township, Lutai Town, Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province. Her husband Song Zhenling was an outstanding teacher. He was cured of hepatitis B after he started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. Wang Guijin was moved by Falun Gong's principles of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance and started Falun Gong cultivation. On July 19, 2004, Wang Guijin was arrested from her mother's home by officers from Lutai Police Station in Huaiyang County while she was nine months pregnant. They took Wang Guijin to the Huaiyang County Birth Plan Station, where eight men pinned her down and aborted her baby. She was subsequently sentenced to five years in prison and has been detained up until now. Her father was charged with "harboring a criminal" and was sentenced to one year in prison. Even Wang Guijin's neighbor who let Wang Guijin stay with them for one night was extorted out of 2,000 yuan by the persecutors. Her husband Song Zhenling was tortured at the county detention center until he almost went blind in both eyes; he was paralyzed and became skin and bones. Although he was on the brink of death, the communist regime agents still sentenced him to ten years in prison. Persecutors from the 610 Office and the National Security Group took away their three-year-old son. The young boy's whereabouts are unknown to this day.

On May 25, 2002, officers from the Mengzhou City Police Department and the 610 Office jumped over the wall into the courtyard of Falun Gong practitioner Geng Juying's house to send Geng Juying to labor camp so they could get bonus money. They forced her to have an abortion by injecting her to induce labor. When Ms. Geng was in unbearable pain, several policemen looked at her and laughed cruelly; as they watched her abortion they said lewdly, "Aren't you pretty? We just want to watch you have an abortion!" Thus Geng Juying lost the baby under the malicious eyes of these wicked policemen. She was then sent to Shibalihe Labor Camp where she has been held until now.

In December 2000, Tang Jinai from Zhenlong Town, Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was two months into her first pregnancy. Officers from the local police station arrested her and sent her to the Zengcheng Detention Center. Because the law says pregnant women cannot be sent to labor camps, persecutor Luo Weijun and other officers from the Zhenlong Town Police Station sent her to the Birth Planning Office in Zengcheng City. Five or six men carried her onto the operating table. The doctor performed a forced abortion. After the procedure, they took her back to the Zhenlong Police Station. The personnel there didn't want to keep her, fearing she might die, so they sent her home. She had no feeling in her body as she lay in bed unconscious, and yet the perpetrators monitored her on a daily basis. During the 2001 Chinese New Year's Eve they deceived Tang Jinai's family. They said that they would take her to a hospital and left with her, but they took her to the Zengcheng Drug Rehabilitation Center for further persecution. Two months later Ms. Tang was sentenced to 18 months of forced labor.

Shu Ping from Zhangjiakou City was four months pregnant when she was sent to the Gaoyang Labor Camp in Hebei Province for refusing to give up practicing Falun Gong. She was shocked with a high-voltage electric baton on her feet and mouth; because she couldn't be intimidated, she was forced to hold a position called "sitting on the plane" [a torture that makes a person bend like the shape of a flying airplane] in a torture room. Though Ms. Shu was suffering from lumbago and felt sick and was wracked with pain from the continuous torture lasting more than 20 hours, she still kindly reasoned with the malevolent policemen, "Do you still have any human nature left? How can you treat a pregnant woman in such a way?" However, a wicked policeman answered, "Who can prove that you are pregnant? If you die, we'll just send you to the crematorium and then inform your family they can pick up your ashes for a fee of 85 yuan!"

Since ancient times, human relations have been of utmost importance. Motherhood is sacred and inviolable. Jiang's hoodlum communist regime's political group carries out deception, wickedness and violence and forces women to choose between an unborn life and their conscience and belief, in the name of the party and a wicked political dogma. The communist rulers use the most barbaric and obscene methods to cruelly harm women, blaspheme motherhood and destroy human relations. This is most unfortunate for the Chinese nation.

3.3 Ruthless Killing

Burning and dragging Falun Gong practitioners to death

Ms. Wang Huajun was 30 years old and had lived in Baiguo Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province. Because she announced that the statements she wrote under pressure in a brainwashing class were void, the police from Macheng City beat her until she was on the brink of death. On April 18, 2001, Xu Shiqian, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee dragged Ms. Wang to Jinqiao Square.

Starting at 1:30 p.m. on April 18th, 2001, the whole city was under martial law and no vehicles could pass through. The police poured gasoline on Wang Huajun and burned her to death. Then they said that a Falun Gong practitioner had immolated herself in front of the government building on Jinqiao Square. Eyewitnesses said that Wang Huajun was lying on the ground when the fire started. When the fire started to burn, she moved, trying to get up. The police officers at the scene panicked because they were afraid she would shout out the truth. But by this time Ms. Wang was so weak from being severely tortured that she could no longer stand up. Finally, when the fire had gone out completely, people saw that the front of her body was burned while her back did not have any signs of burning. Moreover, there were deep knife wounds on her throat and the back of her head! On April 20, the Macheng City government publicly claimed that Wang Huajun had burned herself because she went insane from practicing Falun Gong. Three male practitioners who knew the truth about this murder were dragged to death behind racing police motorcycles.

Murdering practitioners by injecting with unknown toxic substances

Ms. Zhang Fuzhen, about 38 years old, was an employee of Xianhe Park, Pingdu City, Shandong Province. She was arrested by the authorities in 2001 and was sent to Pingdu Brainwashing Class in Shandong Province. The 610 Office agents stripped her naked and shaved her whole head. They tied her to a bed with her four limbs stretched out; she therefore was forced to relieve herself on the bed. Later, because she refused to give up her belief, the police injected her with an unknown toxic substance. After the injection Zhang was in so much pain that she nearly had a nervous breakdown. She struggled in great pain on the bed until she died. Local officials from the 610 Office witnessed the whole process.

Mr. Wang Xinbo from the Zhangdian District, Zibo City, Shandong Province worked at the Zhangdian District Tobacco Company in Zibo City, Shandong Province. He was repeatedly persecuted because he told people about the positive changes he experienced through Falun Gong practice and the truth about the persecution. In 2003 Mr. Wang was sentenced to 13 years in prison and was savagely tortured at the Shandong Province Prison. In October 2005 the brutal captors deprived him of sleep for four days and four nights in order to "reform" him. More than ten abusers took turns beating him. In order to resist the persecution, Wang Xinbo didn't eat or drink for four days. When he lost consciousness and showed signs of whole-body edema, the captors sent him to a police hospital. After the swelling subsided and he had recovered slightly, the hospital gave him three injections of unknown drugs against his will and then sent him home. Soon after Wang Xinbo went home, his stomach and legs became extremely swollen and his whole body ached terribly. A hospital diagnosis revealed internal organ damage. Blood drawn from his abdomen was dark purple. He passed away on February 10, 2006.

In the evening of April 6, 2005, Mr. Li Xianming from Shehong, Suining in Sichuan Province was illegally arrested in front of the county government hostel. National Security Bureau agents staged the arrest and pushed him into a small car without a license plate. They took him to the county detention center, where they savagely tortured him. The guards injected him later with a poisonous substance. He died the day of his arrest, during the evening of April 6, 2005.

Cremating people alive

Zhang Zhenggang, 36 years old, was a former employee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank in Huai-an City. On March 2, 2000, Mr. Zhang was taken into custody in the Huaian Police Station. On March 25, he was brutally beaten, which left him with fatal brain injuries. Later, he was sent to the First Hospital of Huai-an City for emergency treatment and fell into a coma. On March 30, the medical examination showed that Mr. Zhang still had a weak heartbeat and breath. Then about 50 police officers appeared and imposed a curfew at the hospital. Following that, a few officers pushed Zhang Zhenggan's family members and other patients around and took Mr. Zhang who still had a heartbeat and was breathing to the crematorium. Mr. Zhang's body was cremated without the consent of his family members. The police prevented his family and friends from publicly grieving or sending flower wreaths in his honor. They denied Mr. Zhang's family permission to appeal his case.

Beaten to death in public

On October 17, 2005, Mr. Fei Weidong, a 41-year-old teacher at the No. 1 Middle School in Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province, clarified the truth while shopping for a motorcycle in a store. The store owner reported him. The police arrived and closed the shutters to the shop; then they beat Fei Weidong to death. According to witnesses, there was a large hole on each of Fei Weidong's temples, and all of his front teeth were knocked out. The police beating was savage. An autopsy was performed and the body was cremated soon afterwards. Fei Weidong's family received the ashes but not the autopsy report. The authorities claimed that Fei Weidong died from heart disease. They refused the family the right to make inquiries.

Mr. Yuan Shengjun from Jiyuan City, Henan Province was illegally sentenced to six years in prison on October 7, 2005. After about two weeks, 610 Office police officers beat Yuan Shengjun to death. His body was full of wounds and bruises.

In the afternoon of October 25, 2005, police in Nantao Village, Chengliu Town, arrested Mr. Yuan Shengjun, a 42-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Jiyuan City, Henan Province. The police forced the Nantao Village officials to sign a death certificate to say that Yuan Shengjun who was still alive at the time was dead. They took him to a crematory and beat him to death on the way. His eyes did not close even two days after his death and his mouth was wide open. One of his hands, an arm and fingernails were totally black; his back was totally black and blue and one of his legs was greenish purple.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yuan Shengjun

Yuan Shengjun held a bachelor's degree and served as head of the Jiyuan City Materials Bureau. Mr. Yuan strictly conducted himself according to Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, the principles of Falun Gong. He worked hard, refused bribes and treated people fairly. He received high scores from the bureau employees. In November 2000, Yuan Shengjun wrote an open letter to Jiang Zemin, the then-general secretary of the CCP Central Committee, in which he clarified the truth about Falun Gong. The Jiyuan City 610 Office persecutors illegally fired him and sentenced him to three years in prison. He was savagely beaten, shocked with electric batons and subjected to brainwashing. On March 30, 2005, after his home was ransacked and after six months of detention, Mr. Yuan was sentenced to another six years in prison, despite complete absence of evidence against him. After holding a hunger strike for several days in protest, Yuan Shengjun escaped from the Jiyuan City People's Hospital and went to Nantao Village. He died two weeks later. His family never saw him again after he was taken from home six months before, when he was healthy and energetic. The persecutors gave his ashes to his wife and to his mother, in her 80s.

Murder to destroy evidence

After the CCP's atrocities against Falun Gong practitioners were exposed, instead of punishing the criminals and restoring justice to the victims, the CCP covered up facts and unscrupulously and viciously destroyed evidence in an attempt to block the truth from getting out.

In May 2004, Ms. Gao Rongrong, an accountant from the Luxun Fine Arts College in Shenyang City, had her face shocked with electric batons for seven hours, which resulted in severe disfigurement. She later suffered from atrophy of internal organs. Ms. Gao was skin and bones and on the brink of death. On October 5, Gao Rongrong escaped and regained freedom with the help of other Falun Gong practitioners. Her disfigurement shocked the international community and her plight was listed among the "2004 United Nations Human Rights Report on China's Persecution of Falun Gong." The CCP was furious and codenamed her case "Major Case 26." They launched a fanatic retaliation against Gao Rongrong and Falun Gong practitioners who rescued her. Luo Gan, head of the 610 Office said, "This incident has too much international impact." He ordered his subordinates to "take good care of it," which included annihilation of living evidence.

In March 2005, Falun Gong practitioners Feng Gang, Sun Shiyou, Dong Jingya, Zhang Lirong, Wu Junde, Liu Qingming, and Ma Yuping, the people who helped her escape, were arrested by police and savagely tortured. The officers at Tiexi Criminal Police Division in Shenyang City beat Sun Shiyou and shocked his private parts while screaming, "If we shock other parts, people can see it, now we'll shock places that people can't see!" On March 8, 2005, Gao Rongrong was arrested again and was murdered on June 16, 2005.

Ms. Li Shuhua was a 32-year-old seamstress who lived on Peiying Street in Yushu City, Jilin Province. In late September 2003, Jiang Wei and other officers from the Peiying Street Police Station in Yushu City arrested Li Shuhua from her home when she was cooking for her child. They told her they wanted her to write a statement at the police station. She never returned. Ms. Li died from torture on October 6, 2003. Later, out of conscience, an official from the police station who knew the truth revealed what happened surrounding her death.

At a prison, the police demanded information regarding the sources of Falun Gong materials and who her contacts were. Li Shuhua said nothing. The police started to torture her. They covered her head with plastic bags and stuck big needles into her fingertips, arms, back and chest. Many people heard her painful screams. Seeing he still could not get any answers from Li Shuhua, one police officer angrily struck her eyes with his fists with such brutal force that one of her eyeballs popped out. Li Shuhua screamed and lost consciousness from the pain. The police was afraid of taking responsibility, so they asked their superiors for instructions, after which they decided to kill Li Shuhua to destroy evidence. They took her body to a hospital and soaked it in medicinal fluid for a few days followed by freezing. They also had plastic surgery done on the body, after which they told Li Shuhua's family that she had "starved herself."

When the family asked the coroner to explain rows of needle marks, the one caved-in eye socket, collapsed skull, purple-blue face with broken skin, black nails and stomach full of blood and fluid, the coroner made up clumsy lies to cover up the truth. Li Shuhua's family tried to take photographs but the police prevented them. The police watched the body until cremation. Li Shuhua's husband Yang Zhanjiu and her mother Cui Zhanyun were arrested and sent to prison for practicing Falun Gong and were forbidden to see Li Shuhua's body. Afterwards, Li Shuhua's father and two young children live alone at home.

After the rape of two women Falun Gong practitioners inside the Dongchengfang Town Police Station in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province on November 11, 2005 was exposed, the CCP ignored the condemnation from the international community. The CCP rulers claimed they would "deal with the perpetrator as a minor offender" and also threatened and tried to bribe the victims and witnesses. After the victims and witnesses left home to avoid further persecution, agents from Hebei Province Police Department posted a 100,000-yuan reward for the capture of each person. They dispatched scores of officials and patrolled the area around the clock. They followed and threatened the families of the victims and, to cover up their crimes, arrested more than ten Falun Gong practitioners who helped the victims. On February 24, 2006, Baoding City Police Department agents held a meeting in Zhuozhou City. The officials vowed to escalate the persecution in the Baoding area. They said a large group of Falun Gong practitioners would be arrested, and the officials must find the two rape victims. They declared they would "kill the living evidence so there is no way to verify the truth." It was heard in early March 2006 that Liu Jizhi and her daughter who was taking care of her were illegally arrested by officers from the Zhuozhou City 610 Office and the National Security Group. Liu Jizhi is now in a precarious mental state from the devastating trauma inflicted on her mind and body.

Murder by throwing an injured person off a building

Thirty-two-year-old Yu Xiuling lived in Qichengzi Village, Damiao Town, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. She was taken from home by officers from Longcheng District Police Department in Chaoyang City and was cruelly tortured. In the morning of September 20, the police tried to coerce her to write a repentance statement, but she insisted that she didn't do anything wrong by being a good person and following Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. The police handcuffed Ms. Yu to a heating pipe and tortured her for 13 hours. She was unconscious and on the brink of death. One police officer said, "Send her to the ER." Another officer said, "No! We can't explain it if she cannot be revived." In the end, they threw Yu Xiuling from the window on the fourth floor and she died upon impact. Around midnight, they hastily sent the body to a crematory. The police lied and claimed she jumped from the building and committed suicide. They intimidated her husband Feng Dianxiang, "Go sue us wherever you'd like! We have orders from above that 'no measure is too excessive in dealing with Falun Gong.'"

Yu Xiuling's two young daughters

Thirty-two-year old practitioner Su Qionghua lived in Suining, Sichuan Province. She died at 6:30 p.m., December 20, 2000, after being kicked out of a window by policemen from the City National Security Group and Chuanshan Police Station.

According to witnesses at the scene, on the morning of December 18, over a dozen policemen from the National Security Group and Chuanshan Police Station came to ransack Su Qionghua's home. Su Qionghua would not open the door, but tried to reason with them. The police surrounded her home and the nearby area for three days yelling, "After we capture her, we'll kill her!" At around 6:30 p.m. on December 20, Su Qionghua was leaning out the window explaining the truth about Falun Gong to around three to four hundred spectators outside on the ground. When a police officer lowered himself from the roof on a rope he fiercely kicked her. She grabbed the policeman's foot with both hands, but the policeman straightened his foot quickly and violently kicked Su Qionghua again, making her to fall from the 6th floor. Spectators outside then all shouted, "The police have killed her! The police have killed her!" After Su Qionghua fell, the police took no measures to save her. Instead, they tried to hide the truth of what happened. While she was still breathing, they lifted her onto a net (used to catch people who jump trying to commit suicide) and took a photograph, hoping to make it look like they had tried to save her from committing suicide. By this time Su Qionghua had stopped breathing, so they took her away in a police vehicle.

Su Qionghua

Mr. Wang Yongdong, 38 years old, lived on Yangdong Street, Yishui County in Shandong Province. On September 21, 2001, police from Yishui County broke into his home. They beat him severely and threw him out the window from the fourth floor of the building. Later police lied by saying that he committed suicide. The brutal beatings left marks on Wang's body and neck. Wang Yongdong sold vegetables and was popular among his neighbors. People in the surrounding villages and towns are outraged at his murder.

Hitting and killing with a car

Around 9:00 p.m. on April 26, 2002, Wang Aizhi, deputy chief of the Nanguan Police Station in the Weicheng District, and Yu Mingchun, a security person, hit 61-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cao Guifen with an unmarked Toyota police van. Cao Guifen worked at Weifang Distribution, Storage, and Shipping Company. Eyewitnesses said that she was walking in accordance with traffic rules when the police van came out of nowhere and darted straight at her, hitting her so hard she threw up blood. She died three hours later at the Weifang Medical School Hospital. During an investigation of this murder, authorities from the Nanguan Police Station in Weicheng District admitted that Wang Aizhi hit Ms. Cao, but they were unwilling to reveal the details.

Suffocation

In 2001, to reach the quote of "reform rate," police officers in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province secretly planned to cover the mouths and noses of Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to give up their belief with plastic bags, suffocating them. They thought they could murder the practitioners this way, as there is no blood or evidence of violence left behind.

Organ harvesting

Some incidents of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP and Jiang's group published on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website show that as early as 2001, blood-filled holes and surgical wounds were found on the bodies of several Falun Gong practitioners. Some bodies were dissected in violation of Chinese laws and without the consent of the practitioners' families. People from inside the Chinese government revealed that the persecutors conspired with doctors and harvested the practitioners' organs after they were tortured to death, and then sold the organs.

Wang Bin was 44 years old and worked as a computer software engineer at the Institute of Exploration and Development in the Daqing Petroleum Field. He had received the National 2^nd Rank Science and Technology Award. For three sessions in a row, he had been a representative of the employee's assembly at the institute. In December 1999, Mr. Wang was detained for over 100 days because he had signed an appeal letter to the National People's Congress with more than 200 Falun Gong practitioners in Daqing City. In April 2000, he was detained for 45 days with the charge of participating in an "illegal gathering" only because he and ten other practitioners were eating together. In May 2000, Mr. Wang was sentenced to forced labor for going to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. He refused to give up his belief at the labor camp and was savagely tortured. Feng Xi, political head of Group 2 screamed, "If you don't "reform", you'll die for sure!" On September 24, 2000, four or five inmates beat Wang Bin to death under Feng Xi's instruction. According to the doctor on duty, the beating left his testicles crushed; the artery in his neck and major blood vessels burst. His collarbone, chest bones and a dozen ribs fractured. He had cigarette burns on the back of his hands and inside his nostrils. His whole body was black and blue. Even more gruesome: his heart, brain and other internal organs were removed after his death. His body was horrible to behold.

Software engineer Wang Bin

Wang Bin's body, covered in wounds and stitches after his internal organs were removed

In early April of 2002, Mr. Zhang Yanchao, a Falun Gong practitioner from Lalin Town, Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province was arrested and detained by agents from the Hongqi Township Police Station on his way home after completing an errand in Shuangcheng City. Several days later, officers from Harbin City Police Department took Mr. Zhang away. On April 30, 2002, Mr. Zhang's family was notified that he had died in police custody. At the Huangshanzuizi Crematory in Harbin City, Mr. Zhang's family members saw his body, which had been brutalized beyond recognition and was appallingly disfigured. One of his legs was broken. One of his eyeballs was missing and the socket was caved in, leaving a gaping hole. There was virtually no skin on his head, face and most parts of his body, and there was not a single tooth left in his lower jaw, which was shattered. His clothes were also gone. Bruises and wounds could be seen everywhere on his body, many parts of which were skinless. There was a long cut on his chest, which was obviously sewn up later. His chest was also caved in, his skull was opened and a part of his brain was removed. His internal organs were missing. More than 60 fully armed policemen were stationed everywhere in the crematorium. They declared that whoever appealed for Zhang Yanchao would be arrested immediately and handled as a "counterrevolutionary."

According to insiders, Zhang Yanchao was held in a torture chamber at Group 7 of the Harbin City Police Department where more than 40 torture tools were present. He died after one day and one night. The persecution did not end with his death, however, his wife Guan Yinghua was also arrested and detained, and the police searched twice for their 15-year-old daughter Zhang Dan. The whole village was deeply grieved and angry at the brutal murder of an innocent, kind person.

Thirty-three year-old Zuo Zhigang was an outstanding electronics maintenance engineer at the Philips Corporation at the Ruiguang Computer Company on Zhongshan Street in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. On May 30, 2001, the day before his wedding, the police took him away and beat him to death overnight. Zuo Zhigang's body was covered with wounds. One of his ears was dark purple and there were two big, square-shaped holes on the back of his body, and his kidneys had been removed. There was a circular mark on his neck with blood around it showing that a string had been pulled tightly around it. The police said Zuo Zhigang hung himself with his shirt and died, but Zuo Zhigang is 1.72 m tall, how could he have hung himself on a prison gate that is only 1.6m high?

In February 2001, Falun Gong practitioner Ren Pengwu died of torture at the 2nd Detention Center in Hulan County. Without his famiy's consent, the police removed all of Ren Pengwu's organs - from his pharynx and larynx to his penis, and then hastily cremated his body. They forbade his family to photograph his body.

A man who was detained in the Baiyun District's Drug Rehabilitation Center in Guangzhou City in 2001 revealed that the doctors at the center often ordered drug addicts suffering from withdrawal symptoms to beat Falun Gong practitioners from other cities. The doctors told the addicts to keep the organs intact. One day he witnessed several drug addicts beating a Falun Gong practitioner. A doctor said, "Do not hit him in back area. The kidneys are useful!" He also talked about several male Falun Gong practitioners who were detained with him. They were between 20 and 50 years old with northern accents. He personally saw them being dragged out and never coming back. He also said that even though those Falun Gong practitioners from outside of Guangzhou City disappeared, and none of their families could possibly come to find them.

Endnote

Nostradamus, the French prophet, predicted that a great King of Terror would descend from the sky in July 1999. This was the time the CCP started the genocidal persecution against Falun Gong.

The CCP only shows extreme contempt toward humanity and brutalizes and murders Falun Gong practitioners by challenging the bottom line of morality. This evil specter that is against Heaven, earth and man is trying to devour mankind's conscience and human nature, destroy people's righteous belief and the fundamental characteristics of their being - Truth-Compassion-Tolerance - to fundamentally destroy them. People have had their minds twisted and poisoned by the CCP's lies and yet they are not aware. The perpetrators who persecute Falun Gong practitioners have eroded their human nature and been instilled with demonic nature by the CCP. They are on a path of no return. Faced with the horrors of state terrorism, Falun Gong practitioners have not backed down or looked for a "safe route." Instead, they have endured tremendous tribulations and safeguarded their belief with perseverance. They have peacefully and rationally opposed the persecution and clarified the truth, and they have awakened people's conscience with sincerity and compassion. More and more people have learned the truth about Falun Gong and the evil nature of this persecution. More than nine million Chinese people have awakened and have voluntarily and courageously published announcements to withdraw from the CCP. They sided with conscience and justice in the battle between good and evil, choosing a bright future for themselves.

Observers point out that Falun Gong practitioners are stopping the CCP's evil specter from poisoning and destroying mankind by upholding the practitioners' noble belief in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, exposing and stopping this evil persecution. Falun Gong practitioners' great compassion and their perseverance in upholding the truth, and their courage in awakening people, reflect the magnificence and beauty of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, and by contrast, reveal the wickedness and madness of the CCP. Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful, rational and persistent resistance has brought courage to the Chinese people, to help them emerge from the dark clouds of state terrorism. They have also brought people of kindness and justice great hope for a bright future.

Between 2 and 3 a.m on March 6, 2005, agents from the National Security Group of the Shenyang City Police Department conspired with the National Security Team of the Tiexi Section Police Office in Shenyang to arrest Ms. Gao Rongrong and Ms Dong Jingya. The women were sleeping in an apartment in the Yonghuan Section off the Shenhe District in Shenyang City at the time of their arrest. Ms. Dong Jingya was handcuffed behind her back right away.

The police seemed very excited to be arresting Ms. Gao Rongrong. Her face had been severely disfigured from electric baton torture, and she suffered from broken bones in her pelvis, thigh, and legs. They gathered around Ms. Gao Rongrong and Ms. Dong Jingya's beds. The person in charge was Chief Ma of the National Security Group of the Shenyang City Police Department. He is 40 to 50 years old, and people called him "Chief Ma."

A police officer around 30 years old arrested Ms. Dong Jingya's mother, Ma Lianxiao, her sister, Dong Jingzhe, and brother-in-law, Sun Shiyou, during the day by breaking a window and entering via a firefighter's ladders. He sat by Ms. Gao Rongrong's bed, sarcastically staring at her face.

This officer told Ms. Dong Jingya to dress Ms. Gao Rongrong. Ms. Dong didn't do as she was told but asked him, "What's your name?" He lowered his head and said, "I came from Liaoyang." Later they called a policewoman to come and dress Ms. Gao. The policewoman was rude, and Ms. Gao resisted. The policewoman still ignored her. Chief Ma asked Dong Jingya, "How are Gao Rongrong's legs?" Ms. Dong Jingya didn't answer him.

The police confiscated Falun Gong books, truth-clarification materials, a notebook computer, a color printer. and wireless connection equipment in the room. They also took away Ms. Dong Jingya's salary card and over 5,000 yuan in cash. Chief Ma told his subordinates, "She is a techie. She has money."

Ms. Dong Jingya asked them to loosen her handcuffs. A male police officer said, "I'm the evil police reported on Clearwisdom.net. I won't be good any more. My name is Wang Jun. You can put my name on the Internet!"

Ms. Dong Jingya was taken to a minivan downstairs. Later, the police carried Ms. Gao Rongrong in a blanket and put her in the van. The van stopped suddenly not too long after it left. They removed Ms. Gao Rongrong from the van and disappeared into the dark night.

In April 2005 people saw Ms. Gao Rongrong locked in a single cell in the Liaoning Province Prison Hospital. On June 16, 2005, Ms. Gao Rongrong passed away in the emergency room at Shenyang Medical University. Where these "people in law enforcement" had taken Gao Rongrong in the meantime and how they tortured her, nobody knows.

Ms. Dong Jingya was taken to the National Security Team of the Tiexi Section Police Office of Shenyang City. She was subjected to continuous interrogation for several nights. In the basement, Ms. Dong Jingya was photographed against her will in the basement of the facility and then handcuffed and shackled. Police officer Sun Jianping, around 50 years old, and Li Zheng, over 30, took turns torturing Ms. Dong. When they saw she was not responding to them, Sun Jianping said viciously, "We'll let you become the second Gao Rongrong." Li Zheng said, "Let's charge up the electric batons." Then he moved forward to squeeze her hands that were handcuffed to the chair. Ms. Dong looked at him righteously, and he had to let go. Li Zheng said, "We are all hired hatchet men. We don't have any choice. They really gave us money!" As he spoke he took out a thick stack of yuan and said, "Look, they will give us more."

Ms. Dong didn't answer them. Early in the morning they put two very bright lights in front of her to hurt her eyes. Police officer Zhang Yu, male, about 40, said, "Don't you take care of others (referring to her taking care of Gao Rongrong). Enjoy it!" Police officer Xiu Decheng said, "Push her down from the fourth floor and bury her." Ms. Dong said, "All these comments won't affect me in the least. Hearing the Tao in the morning, one can die in the evening without regret."

In the afternoon on March 6, Ms. Dong was sent to a brainwashing center on the second floor of a small white building in the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp. Police head Shi Fengyou in the brainwashing center, along with other police officers and some brainwashing personnel, took turns torturing her.

The brainwashing center promised to pay the personnel hired from outside 20 to 50 yuan per day. If they could "reform" one practitioner, they would be rewarded with an additional 1,000 yuan. On March 10, 2005 they had a meeting to dissolve the forced labor camp but keep the brainwashing center. The same afternoon, Ms. Dong was removed from the brainwashing center. She was placed in the Masanjia Hospital for one night. They infused her with two bottles of drugs. More than 10 policemen from the National Security Group of the Shenyang City Police Department and the National Security Team of the Tiexi Section Police Office of Shenyang City monitored her. Officer Yang Hai from the National Security Team said, "We don't have a grudge against any of you. We know that you are all selfless. But the CCP gives us money, so we'll do whatever they order us to do."

On March 11, Ms. Dong Jingya was sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Shenyang practitioner Zhang Lirong also stayed in the Masanjia Hospital for one night. She was infused with nine bottles of drugs. She almost lost consciousness at that time and became incontinent.

On March 9, 2005, Xu and others from Shenyang Police Department went to Ms. Dong Jingya's husband's workplace. They charged him with "Harboring Fugitives" to illegally interrogate him. They threatened to take away their house and they went to his house to take away their personal computer. Ms. Dong's husband has gone to the police department to ask for it back several times. The police say they have not yet finished taking evidence and still haven't returned it.

Ms. Dong has been on hunger strike for almost 10 months in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. They crudely force fed her three times a day, making her nose and mouth bleed. She was locked onto a metal bed and forced to ingest six bottles of drugs--way beyond a normal dose--every day. Her life was at risk several times. The officials sent her to the Medical University and to the Masanjia Hospital. Because she insisted on shouting, "Falun Dafa is good" they locked her up in the "ice room" [a commercial walk-in freezer?]. They also shocked her with electric batons and locked her in the police office in the 1^st Group. She was deprived of sleep for 10 days and handcuffed to the bed.

On February 27, 2006, police guard Li Mingyu from the 1^st Group of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp let Ms. Dong Jingya's family take her home. Ms. Dong Jingya shouted, "Falun Dafa is good" and walked out of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yuan Zheng from Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, about 38 to 39 years old, originally came from Liaoning Province. In September 2001, she was illegally arrested while clarifying the truth in public. She was illegally detained at Zhuhai City Detention Center No. 2. Ms. Yuan did not give her name [Note: practitioners often do not reveal their names when they are arrested, due to the government's policy of implicating and punishing family members, friends, and work units]. Therefore, the guards recorded her as "no name" on the chart. In June 2002, Yuan Zheng was taken to an undisclosed location. No one has heard of her since.

As reported by prisoners at the 2nd Detention Center  through unofficial channels, everyone with "no name" is taken to an undisclosed location.

Later, Ms. Yuan's mother got in touch with me. I told her to go to the 610 Office quickly and ask for the release of her daughter. But, she did not take the advice, as she was afraid to implicate her son, a government official.

What undisclosed location was Ms. Yuan taken to? I worry deeply about Ms. Yuan Zhen, who has disappeared many years ago, since hearing the horrible news concerning the Shenyang Sujiatun secret concentration camp, where they harvest organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. I am especially worried, since I heard of the profit being made from organ harvesting.

I was illegally detained at Zhuhai City's 2nd Detention Center in April 2001. The prison ward where I was detained is in close proximity to the place where Ms. Yuan was detained.

At the time, I was held in Shed 37. One day in September, I heard shouting from the direction of Shed 35. A policeman who asked for the number of the prisoners demanded, "Why don't you report your number!" A prisoner answered: "She is Falun Gong." "Falun Gong has to report the number too!" The policeman shouted, but there was no response. "Push her down! Make her squat!" barked the policeman loudly. I heard the sound of pushing and pulling, and then the sound of hitting and kicking. I heard it very clearly.

During the next few days, the sounds of shouting and cursing, by different policemen, was heard from the direction of Shed 35. I heard bits and pieces about the situation. I learned that my fellow practitioner in Shed 35 was brutally beaten because she insisted on continuing with her cultivation. She was handcuffed, and she went on hunger strike to protest. The perpetrators force-fed her. She was tortured by the method, "handcuffed to a cross" (the person is tied to a wooden board that looks like a cross for a very long time, which results in obstructed blood circulation, and one gets bed sores all over the back).

During the time I was detained in Shed 37, Falun Gong practitioners Zhang Qingyun and Wang Zhijun were also detained there. We discussed what we heard and decided that we could not let them torture Falun Gong practitioners like this. The only method we could think of was to protest loudly. Therefore, we shouted together, "Stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners! Stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners! Falun Gong practitioners are not guilty!" After we shouted, our shed leader immediately ordered other prisoners to push us down and cover our mouths. We struggled and continued to shout. Ultimately, policeman Wu Moufen rushed into the shed and told us tersely, "Who is the leader in this? You better watch it!"

From the moment we loudly protested, it became quiet in Shed 35. After a while, a prisoner named Ahong came to Shed 37 (she used to stay in Shed 35). She later told us, "This practitioner refused to tell her name. They called her 'no name.'" From the moment we shouted, they took her to Shed 14 and continued to brutally torture her with "handcuffed to a cross." Ahong had been around "no name" for quite some time. Ahong told us that "no name" had bedsores all over her back. After she went on a hunger strike, she was taken to Shed 34. She refused to give her name, and the guards didn't know what to do with her.

After two to three months, just before the Chinese New Year, I passed Shed 34. I saw "no name." She had fair skin and was very pretty. I was deeply impressed and could not forget her.

I was later taken to Shed 34. However, "no name" was no longer there. Prisoners told me that "no name" was taken somewhere else. At the time, I thought that "no name" was released.

In the end of November 2002, the police took me to Guangdong Province Shaoguan Prison. After one month in a small cell, I was forced to undergo brainwashing at the 14th Group. Ahong, who used to be in the same cell with me was also in the group. Once when we took baths, Ahong was able to talk to me. I know she had a special relationship with policeman Wu Moufen. I heard that Ahong's family continuously bribed Wu Moufen. Therefore, I assumed that Ahong knew quite a lot. I asked her about "no name." Ahong said that "no name" was not released, but also was no longer at the detention center. I then asked her if "no name" was taken to a forced labor camp. Ahong said that Wu Moufen said that "no name" was taken to an undisclosed location. At the time, I thought that this undisclosed location was the local brainwashing center, and did not give it much thought.

In the middle of October 2004, I was "released." The Zhuhai City 610 Office used the excuse that I did not "transform" and took me to the local brainwashing center, where I was again illegally detained. My family paid to have me released on bail. A fellow practitioner found me and asked me about "no name." I described her appearance. This practitioner showed me a picture and asked me whether it was she or not. The picture looked like "no name."

My fellow practitioner told me that "no name" is Yuan Zheng. After she was released from Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, she went to her mother's home at Zhuhai. All the family knows is that in September 2001, after she left her mother's home, she disappeared. No one has heard from her since.

The truth that is hidden behind the CCP's "civilized" Hunan Province Women's Prison is worse than a nightmare. Hundreds of innocent Hunan Falun Gong practitioners are tormented mentally and physically, brainwashed, and tortured at that prison. They are not allowed family visits, are strictly monitored around the clock, forced into slave labor, and more. Some could no longer bear the physical and mental torture and passed away before their appointed time. Some suffered a mental collapse because of the persecution. The real situation is completely the opposite from what Deputy Warden Zhao Lan boasts. The Hunan Province Women's Prison is a living hell and is bent on destroying morality, justice, and all that makes humans human.

The information below is only a small sample of what goes on here. Recording the evildoings at the Hunan Province Women's Prison in its persecution of practitioners would require more paper than exists to record them all.

Using Prisoners to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

When assigned to the "mutual supervision team," Hunan Province Women's Prison orders inmates to strictly supervise and persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Due to brainwashing and the promise of reduced prison terms, these prisoners changed from passively to actively assisting in the persecution. They even volunteer to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. They are sliding down into the abyss, becoming daily more and more depraved.

Encouraged by the prison guards, Zhang Genlin from Lianyuan inhumanly abused practitioner Ms. Xie Shuihua, a practitioner over 60 years old from Guiyang County in the Chenzhou District who was illegally sentenced to three years and imprisoned around June 2004, both mentally and physically. After Ms. Xie was taken to the brainwashing session on the first floor of the guardhouse, Zhang Genlin continued to create trouble. In the corridor Zhang pushed Ms. Xie without provocation into the iron railings of the corridor. She lost her breath and had difficulties breathing for a long time. Zhang Genlin told her, "Do you know who I am? I am a gangster!"

In the past, Zhang Genlin's family members were the leaders of a gangster organization operating in and around Xinhua and Lianyuan. Some of the family members were executed, and all the others are in prison. Under the orders of Li Chunhui, the guard in charge of the Education and "Transformation" Team ("The Education and Transformation Group" was set up in March 2005. It is in charge of "education" and "transformation" in Team 1, Team 2, and the Old Age Team), Zhang Genlin used many cruel methods to persecute practitioners. Because Zhang persecuted Falun Gong practitioners without mercy, the prison commuted this evil prisoner's sentence, and Zhang was released in July 2005

Depraved Police Guard Li Chunhui

Some of the crimes committed by the police guards at Hunan Province Women's Prison are worse than the crimes of the prisoners.

As soon as practitioner Ms. Xie Shuihua arrived at the prison, she refused to wear the prisoner's uniform. The prisoners then stripped her and the chief guard, Li Chunhui, from the Education and "Transformation" Team did not stop this unlawful act. Instead, she ordered Liu Qin from Yueyang (this prisoner is extremely vicious and teaches a "special class" during which he slanders Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners and the prisoners who monitor the practitioners have to attend this class) to take photos with a digital camera and then show the photos to other practitioners. Li wanted to start the rumor that Ms. Xie was without honor, as she was not wearing clothes. Li Chunhui also colluded with psychologist "Dr. Huang," who was in that prison for a special group research project, to accuse Ms. Xie Shuihua of having a mental problem. They used this to attack Falun Gong.

As the leader for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, Li Chunhui's evildoings and cell phone number have been published on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website many times. Yet, Li Chunhui continues her depraved behavior and has not stopped persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Once during a "meeting" with practitioners, Li Chunhui shamelessly said, "I receive calls on my cell phone every day and am annoyed with you practitioners daily. You said that I persecuted this one and that one. Who have I persecuted? I am persecuted, I am harassed, and I am a victim!"

Deputy Warden Zhao Lan Immersed in Hypocrisy

On the surface, Deputy Warden Zhao Lan of the Hunan Province Women's Prison is a kind person. Yet, she is the instigator of all sorts of mental and physical persecution of Falun Gong practitioners detained in the prison. To deceive and threaten practitioners to renounce their belief, Zhao Lan, who is a psychology major, stops at no evil or method in the persecution of practitioners.

Zhao Lan shows different behavior with different people. Some prisoners see her as a warden with "empathy," who is not arrogant. She announces that prison affairs must be "just, fair, and open." During celebrations and events, such as the Lunar New Year, she kindly gives prisoners a red envelop with the message "Wishing you advancement in 'transformation'" or "Gain a new life soon" and so on. Practitioners she believes to be good subjects for "transformation," are "taken care of" in subtle ways. When the practitioner's family members visit, she "grants special privileges." She takes the practitioner and family to a dinner. When she attends meetings outside the prison, she calls on or "visits" the family members of local practitioners who are detained in the prison. After she returns, she immediately goes to the Education and "Transformation" Team to assure that this practitioner is treated "with special care."

However when the practitioner refuses to renounce her belief, Zhao Lan shows her true character and lets fall the hypocritical veil. She orders physical and mental torture of this practitioner. In order to indoctrinate hatred towards Falun Gong and practitioners in police officers and prisoners and to make them voluntary tools in the persecution of practitioners, she orders everyone to watch videotapes that slander Falun Gong frequently. To "transform" practitioners, Zhao Lan initiated a brainwashing program and a "strict discipline" team. She set up an "Education and 'Transformation' Team" for brainwashing practitioners as soon as she had been taught this method in another prison.

She instigates and orders physical and mental tortures of practitioners; the methods are too numerous to mention. Deng Cheng, the former head of the police uniform team 7 (who has since been promoted to the chief of the production section in the police uniform factory) ordered the prisoners to brutally drag Ms. Mo Xiaoyan, a practitioner from Yueyang City from the fourth floor of the prison cells to the ground floor and then from the ground floor to the workshop. Her pants were torn, and her buttocks injured. Ms. Yan Hong from Changsha was subject to different tortures for continuing to practice Falun Gong and opposing the persecution. Ms. Yan was even once locked in a very small and completely dark confinement cell for two and a half months, with the excuse of "strict discipline." Ms. Yan was handcuffed at all times and forced to participate in "physical training." Ms. Zhou Yunxia from Yiyang, who was released on November 1, 2005, became mentally unstable due to the persecution. Ms. Jia Cuiying from Jishou was tormented until she was found to have lung cancer. She passed away in June 2004, only four months after she was released on medical parole. The torments suffered by all firm Falun Gong practitioners are too numerous to be recorded in this article. Everyone can testify to the criminal acts committed by Zhan Lan and others.

The persecution of practitioners is still going on in Hunan Province Women's Prison, which has strictly blocked outgoing information, so the outside does not know what is going on inside the prison. They fear deeply that their evil acts during the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners will be exposed. What is known today is far from the complete truth of the persecution practitioners suffer in that prison..

Other Illegal Activities Behind the Walls of the "Civilized Prison"

In August 2004, Hunan Province Women's Prison was selected to be the "Province's Most Modernized and Civilized Prison." However, people in the know understand just how the prison obtained the "civilized prison" title. The prison authorities deceived and presented a false face to the outside. There are many illegal activities taking place inside.

To further their economic benefits, the women's prison does not consider the physical or mental health of detainees and violates prison rules about overtime work. Several of the teams work daily more than ten hours, which is far above the normal working hours set by law. Prisoners are given only short rest periods. Some squadrons begin work at 6 a.m., and the detainees have breakfast in the workshop, work through noon (they are not allowed to go back to the cell for a rest), and keep working late into the evening. They finish work as early as 9 or 10 p.m. or as late as 11 p.m. or midnight. There are times the prisoners work through the night. Prisoners complain continuously.

In this environment of long term hard labor, long working hours, and a lack of healthy spiritual guidance, many of the detainees develop serious mental disorders.

The Changfeng 5th Team of Ward 3 (former the Printing and Binding Team) is printing pirated books, such as advanced technological and professional books and adult books. The prison keeps silent about these ongoing activities.

Some police officer often accept bribes from prisoners and family members. Then they use their authority to reduce prison terms for prisoners or provide "venues" for parole. Many prisoners admit that Zhao Lan is their "partner in crime." These people are given easy workloads, such as "prisoner on duty." These prisoners will be the first to be considered for a reduction in term and parole.

It is no secret that since Zhao Lan became deputy warden, prisoner suicides and fights happen much more frequently.

In the last few months of 2005, it was extremely cold, and the water on the freshly washed clothes quickly turned into ice. Regardless of the weather, no matter how cold, windy, rainy or snowy, the Deyang Prison in Sichuan Province forced dozens of Falun Gong practitioners to perform army drills in the exercise yard: standing in the soldier posture, running or walking. All the practitioners were forcefully shaved and were not allowed to wear hats or gloves - even an elderly practitioner in his 70s was not exempted. Every day, the guards used various excuses to torture the practitioners.

Since July 20, 1999, Deyang Prison has been used to detain Falun Gong practitioners. Currently the prison has more than 70 practitioners detained. In more than six years, the prison has used various measures to persecute more hundreds of practitioners. The methods used on practitioners include brainwashing, forced "transformation", physical abuse, forcing them to run for several hours without stopping, stand and face the wall, stand for prolonged time, binding them to torture devices, sleep deprivation, denial of water and food, forcing them to work in the workshop for 36 hours continuously, etc. Due to the brutality of Deyang Prison, some practitioners became disabled or severely injured from the beatings, and some were even tortured to death.

The guards organized a special group of people and used them to torture practitioners. They set up several dark rooms without windows where the perpetrators commit crimes of torturing practitioners. They used many torture methods on practitioners such as "Riding a Plane" and "Riding a Motorcycle." The most vicious is called "Man-Han Full Menu" (a famous name for a traditional royal meal that contains 108 large dishes and countless small dishes. It is used here as the torture name to indicate that it comprises various types of tortures.) The practitioners were forced to stand, held in a painful squatting posture, or maintain a painful position next to the wall for several consecutive days and nights. The perpetrators silenced practitioners by stuffing dirty rags into practitioners' mouths, using tape to seal practitioners' mouths, and tying practitioners' hands and legs. Then, the perpetrators tortured and beat practitioners. The torture usually did not leave many marks on practitioners' hands and feet but caused internal injures.

Practitioner Jiang Shengui, who was an outstanding teacher, lost his teeth, had serious internal bleeding due to the beatings, and often vomited blood. Practitioner Chen Daiping was sent to a hospital after being severely injured from beating. Practitioner Li Chengdong's heart was damaged from beating. Dozens of practitioners staying on the second and third floors were forbidden to go downstairs. Every practitioner was monitored by two criminals around the clock. The criminals' role was to physically and mentally abuse practitioners. Practitioners were not allowed to talk to anyone or have meals with others. No matter where practitioners went, they were ordered to report to the criminals, or they would face a severe beating.

If a practitioner had any grievance and reported it to the guards, the practitioner would face more severe persecution. The beating left practitioners disabled and injured. For example, two of practitioner Li Wenbing's ribs were fractured, practitioner Pan Pu became deaf from beating, Xiao Hongmo and Xu Changzheng lost teeth, and Chen Kaixiang was unable to move for more than one week after the beating and was incapable of taking care of himself. Cao Ping's foot and hand were fractured while he was detained. The prison doctor refused to give him any medical treatment. Instead, Cao Ping was sent to Deyang Prison. After several months of brutal torture, Cao Ping was at the brink of death. The prison had to send him home in an attempt to avoid bearing responsibility for his death. Soon after being back at home, Cao Ping passed away. Yet the perpetrators spread lies to the public that Cao Ping died from cancer.

In 2002, the prison held a so called "transformation class." All the practitioners were forced to stand as a punishment. The perpetrators also tried to force every practitioner to call himself/herself a "criminal." In hot weather, practitioners were denied water or restroom use. In winter, practitioners were not allowed to wear hats or gloves, which induced frostbite on every practitioner's hands and feet. The guards often punished practitioners by locking them in solitary confinement, putting them under harsh management, applying torture instruments to them, forcing practitioners to recite the prison rules, depriving them of sleep, and forcing them to do hard labor. The daily workload assigned to the practitioners was so heavy that it could not be finished even in three days and nights; practitioners were forced to work more than 10 hours a day, even on Sundays. The guards had criminals who were so-called team heads of production or some committees monitor practitioners around the clock. The criminals could beat practitioners at will at any time. They dragged down the practitioner to the ground from the top level of the bunk beds and beat the practitioner. If a practitioner tried to speak, they would seal the practitioner's mouth. Their torture methods are vicious.

In 2003, the prison held another "brainwashing session." Three to five criminals monitored one practitioner. If they thought that the practitioner did not meet their requirement to give up the belief of Falun Gong or write the required three statements, they would cruelly torture the practitioner. Physical punishments included forcing practitioners to run around a field for several hundred laps until the practitioner was too exhausted to move. The criminals then drag the practitioner and force him to keep running. Such torture lasted for several months. The prolonged torture left many practitioners with serious symptoms of illnesses. The guards told the practitioners that they should seek medical treatment since they were ill. They injected practitioners with drugs and forced practitioners to swallow pills. A 78-year-old elderly practitioner Yang Shouming was forced to stand in a "soldier posture" under the scorching hot sun for a long time. He fainted three times. There are more elderly practitioners like Mr. Yang who are under various torture and maltreatment.

Dozens of practitioners including Xu Tianfu, Luo Xiaoxing, Gan Jing, Yang Yourun, Gong Guanlei, and Wei Bing were subjected to harsh management and locked into solitary cells. The practitioners could not rest in the night. The long-term mistreatment caused these practitioners' health to deteriorate. Yet, the prison defamed the practitioners by saying, "See how they became after practicing Falun Gong." They also spread slanderous rumors that the practitioners purposely wounded themselves, did not treasure their own lives, and disrupted the prison orders. The perpetrators framed practitioners for numerous crimes. When they sent the practitioners whom they tortured to the edge of death to the clinic, they pretended to be good people who cared for the practitioners.

On the morning of September 1, 2005, the siren was activated in Deyang Prison. The prison was under lockdown. Anti-riot guards moved in and gathered the practitioners at the restricted management area of the 2^nd team ward. Because they refused to call themselves "criminals", admit any wrongdoing, or accept any slanderous labels forced on practitioners by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), many practitioners were subjected to the guards' brutal beatings. The guards used various torture methods on practitioners. Over 70 practitioners were locked into solitary cells. Every practitioner was monitored by 2-3 criminals who were all either murderers or committed serious crimes. The guards gave the criminals' orders, and the criminals carried them out. The guards made the criminals commit more crimes.

The guards put practitioners under continuous persecution. With the instructions from the 610 Office, the guards locked the most determined practitioners on the first floor. There were dozens of practitioners being forced to do hard labor at the workshop. The practitioners who were locked on the first floor were Yang Shouming, Li Xiaobo ( a well known good person), Chen Jingxi (Bachelor degree, an outstanding teacher), Zhang Wanyou, Yuan Xiaodong, Lv Zonghe, Liao Jianpu, Luo Jiangping, Lu Bingxin, Tang Kerong, Chen Jianhua, Bao Mingquan, An Keqin, Huang Keming, Li Tianguo and Wu Shihai etc..

Wu Shihai graduated from a university and was a high school teacher. He was sentenced to a forced labor camp twice for practicing Falun Gong and clarifying the truth. He has been secretly sent to a mental hospital and was injected with drugs to destroy his neural system. He was so severely injured from the brutal beatings that he was unable to speak and had difficulty walking. Whenever it was time to report numbers (the guards demand that the prisoners to report their numbers several times a day), Wu Shihai was cruelly tortured. The guards defamed and humiliated him, dragged or carried him in and out, or held him up above the floor and then forcefully threw him on the ground. Several criminals beat him at the same time. He was often starved. Recently, the perpetrators bound him to a torture instrument, handcuffed him and locked him into a solitary cell. He was only allowed to wear a thin layer of clothing, with almost no bedding. He was forced to sleep on the cold floor in the freezing winter.

The guards denied the visitation between practitioners and their families, did not allow communication through letters, and did not deposit the money sent by families to practitioners' accounts. The practitioners were requested to report their thoughts in writing. If a practitioner refused to write, he would face more punishment from 610 police.

This is the real reflection of so called of "humanity" defined by the evil Chinese Communist Party. Those who never lived in the CCP's society will find it difficult to truly know the darkness of the prisons and viciousness of CCP. It tortures you, beats you, humiliates you, tears your family apart, and destroys everything in your world. Yet, in the end, you are supposed to thank them.

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

Falun Gong practitioner Fan Huiying is sixty-six years old. She has a bachelor degree and was the assistant director of the political association in Qian'an City, Hebei Province. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. In January of 2001, she was sent to a brainwashing class and was detained there until the end of October. During that period, she was transferred back and forth from the brainwashing class to the detention center three times. She was handcuffed and chained, and beaten up by vicious policemen including Zhu, Hui Zhijiang and others. They also beat her hands with shoes. To protest the illegal detention, she went on a hunger strike. Nine days later, she became so weak that she was unable to care for herself. The detention center notified her family to take her home. Before she had completely recovered, she was repeatedly harassed and monitored by the police. At present, her ID card has been confiscated and she is not allowed to file the paperwork for retirement. In addition, they have not paid her salary since February of 2001.

1. [Yanzhou City, Shangdong Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Illegally Arrested

A Falun Gong practitioner from Yanzhou City in Shandong Province was illegally arrested by police while distributing truth-clarification materials. The police also confiscated from the practitioner more than 10 copies of truth-clarification materials yet to be distributed. The police failed to find anything when they went to ransack the practitioner's house. The practitioner was held in the police department for one night and was interrogated about the source of the truth-clarification materials. The police failed to get any information from the practitioner, who was then fined a fee of 500 yuanand released.

2. [Hebei Province] Ms. Liu Jizhi Currently Being Held in the Nanma Brainwashing Center of Zhuozhou City

Practitioners Ms. Liu Jizhi and her daughter, Ms. Wei Meiling from Zhuozhou City in Hebei Province, were taken from Beijing City to a hotel in another city on March 7, 2006, by police from the Baoding City Police Department. On the evening of March 28, they were taken to the Nanma Brainwashing Center of Zhuozhou City. That same night, Ms. Wei Meiling was released and taken home by family members while Ms. Liu Jizhi continued to be held in the Nanma Brainwashing Center of Zhuozhou City.

3. [Jilin Province] Ms. Li Cuizhi Taken to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp After Being Arrested Again

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Cuizhi, 50, lived on Qipan Street in Jilin City. In April 2005, she was arrested but walked away with righteous thoughts. She was then forced to leave home to avoid being arrested. She returned home in March 2006, when she was arrested again by police from the Qipan Street Police Station and then taken to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp of Changchun City in Jilin Province, where she is being tortured.

4. [Jilin Province] Mr. Zhang Hongwei Suffering from Severe Lung Tuberculosis in Jilin City Prison Due to Persecution

During the past six years, practitioner Mr. Zhang Hongwei from Tonghua City was held in the Beijing City Prison, later in the Tiebei District Prison of Changchun City, and recently in the Jilin City Prison. In Jilin Prison, he was severely persecuted. At present, he is suffering from severe lung tuberculosis due to the persecution and is in the Jilin City Prison Hospital.

5. [Jilin Province] Practitioners Mr. Jiang Baoming and Ms. Tang Shude Arrested

Practitioners Mr. Jiang Baoming from Changshan Chemical Fertilizer Factory of Songyuan City in Jilin Province and Ms. Tang Shude from the former Chemical Fertilizer Factory's Children School were arrested.

6. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Guo Lanzhi Sentenced to Three and a Half Years of Imprisonment

Practitioner Ms. Guo Lanzhi from Chengdu City went to Tianfu Square to post truth-clarification materials on the evening of April 22, 2005. She was followed and arrested. She was later held in the No.2 Detention Center in Chengdu City. On April 26, police ransacked Ms. Guo Lanzhi's house and confiscated her Falun Gong books, truth-clarification materials, and a reading machine that her son used for studying. Reportedly, the Qingyang District Court of Chengdu City secretly sentenced Ms. Guo Lanzhi to three and a half years of imprisonment on March 29, 2006.

7. [Jilin Province] Current Information on Practitioners Ms. Lin Shujie and Her Sister, Ms. Lin Shuhua

On March 6, 2006, practitioners Ms. Lin Shujie and her siste,r Ms. Lin Shuhua from Jilin City, were arrested by police from the Jiuzhan Police Station in the Economic Development District of Jilin City. Later they were taken to the Jilin City Detention Center. They are still being held there and their family members have been prohibited from visiting them.

The two sisters lived in the Jiuzhan Candy Factory Residential District of the former Economic Development District. Ms. Lin Shujie is 48 and Ms. Lin Shuhua is 44.

8. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] The 4th Group of Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp Still Persecuting Practitioner Mr. Wang Guoxiang

Practitioner Mr. Wang Guoxiang was a main target of persecution in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. Since Mr. Wang Guoxiang was the most steadfast practitioner among the 40 to 50 practitioners illegally held in this forced labor camp, the guards made special efforts to persecute him and tried to forcibly "transform" him.

On March 1 and 2, guards from 4th Group of the forced labor camp handcuffed his wrists onto the side railings of the upper bunk of a bed and forced him to remain in a standing position for three to four days, forbidding him to fall asleep. After the handcuffs were removed, he was forced to sit on the bed and was watched by guards day and night for over 20 days, during which time he was forbidden to sleep.

9. [Pingyuan County, Shandong Province] Ms. Zhang Hongxiu and Ms. Du Donghua on a Hunger Strike at the Detention Center to Protest the Persecution

Practitioners Ms. Zhang Hongxiu and Ms. Du Donghua from Pingyuan County in Shandong Province have been on a hunger strike to protest their illegal arrests since they were taken to the Detention Center on March 25, 2006.

10. [Zibo City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Mr. Yao Qian Arrested

On the morning of March 29, practitioner Mr. Yao Qian from the Western School District of Shangdong Polytechnic University in the Zhangdian District of Zibo City in Shandong Province was arrested by police from the Mashang Town Police Station. He is currently being held in the Mashang Town Police Station. We hope fellow practitioners who have learned this news will strengthen righteous thoughts, dissolve the evil conspiracy, and together rescue fellow practitioner Mr. Yao Qian.

11. [Guangdong Province] Police from the Shengzhou City 610 Office Colluded with Hengshui City Police to Arrest a Practitioner

At around 10:00 p.m. on the evening of March 26, 2006, the City Police Department Governance Security Chief Jia Shuangwan (male) led police officers and colluded with the Hengshui 610 Office police to jump over the wall and break into practitioner Mr. Yan Zhongshun's house, located in the Xiyangtan Village of Shengzhou City. There were at least 10 officers involved altogether, all wearing plainclothes.

At that time, Mr. Yan Zhongshun's wife and younger daughter were asleep in the home. When they woke up, they were threatened to not make a sound. The mother and daughter were frightened and did not know what to do. When Jia Shuangwan (male) asked about Mr. Yan Zhongshun, Mr. Yan's wife realized that it was the police from the Governance Security Division of Shengzhou City Police Department coming to arrest her husband. (Jia had gone to Mr. Yan's house several times before to arrest Mr. Yan, so Mr. Yan's wife recognized him.) The officers were divided into five groups of two to start ransacking rooms of the house, without showing any identification. They turned the house into a big mess, tossing things all over the place. They found several Falun Gong books but nothing else.

The phone number for Jia Shuangwan, male, the Governance Security Chief of the Shengzhou City Police Department: 86-318-3315111 (Home)

12. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province]Practitioner Ms. Li A'yi Held for Fifteen Days and Her Subsequent Whereabouts Unknown

Practitioner Ms. Li A'yi from the Longquanyi District of Chengdu City was illegally arrested around February 22, 2006, when she went to visit her relatives in Xinjin County of Chengdu City. She was held for 15 days and not allowed to return home. Meanwhile, the Residential District Committee for the Telecommunication Bureau located in the Longquanyi District on Dudong Road, where Ms. Li lived, was notified to take Ms. Li's bedding home, while Ms. Li was taken to Chengdu City. As to where Ms. Li is, even her family members do not know.

13. [Yutian County, Hebei Province] Practitioner Mr. Liu Zhaohui Arrested

Practitioner Mr. Liu Zhaohui worked as a staff member for the Yutian County Broadcasting and Television Bureau. Because he openly clarified truth to the officials at his workplace, they reported him to the police and he was arrested at the end of 2004. Police confiscated Falun Gong truth-clarification materials and CDs when they ransacked his home. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor and is currently being held in the Handan Forced Labor Camp. His wife, Wang Lixia, divorced him in 2005.

14. [Hebei Province] Mr. Fu Huajing and Mr. Liu Jiting Held in Shijiazhuang City's 2nd Detention Center

Practitioners Mr. Fu Huajing and Mr. Liu Jiting from Shijiazhuang City in Hebei Province are currently being held in the Shijiazhuang City's 2nd Detention Center. According to sources, Mr. Fu Huajing was sentenced to two weeks in jail and he has already paid a fine of 1,000 yuan. However, two weeks have already passed and he has still not been released.

15. ［Shangdong Province］The Relevant Departments and Staff Who Participated in Persecuting Practitioner Ms. Zhao Yuhong

Practitioner Ms. Zhao Yuhong from Zhaoyuan City in Shandong Province was "illegally sentenced" to four years of imprisonment. Recently, when she had served the full term and should have been released, police again arrested her and took her to the Zhaoyuan Brainwashing Center, where she continues to be tortured.

Ms. Zhao Yuhong has been inhumanely persecuted because she steadfastly practices Falun Gong. In the past several years, almost all of her time has been spent in the forced labor camp, brainwashing center, or prison. Due to the persecution, she has lost feeling in both of her hands, and she has also lost the ability to take care of herself. In 2002 she was sentenced to four years of imprisonment and was held in the Women's Prison in Shandong Province in Jinan City. Recently, when she had served her full term and was up for release, her 80-year-old mother went to the prison to pick her up. However, her mother did not expect that a group of police officers from Zhaoyuan City would already be waiting there. They deceived Ms. Zhao Yuhong's mother by taking her to the side, while they arrested Ms. Zhao Yuhong and took her to the Zhaoyuan City Brainwashing Center where she continues to be held.

16. [Xinjiang Autonomous Region] Additional Information on the Persecution of Practitioners Mr. Bai Shaohua, Mr. Ma Wanli and Mr. Li Xupeng

On March 3, 2006, practitioners Mr. Ma Wanli and Mr. Li Xupeng went to visit practitioner Mr. Bai Shaohua at his apartment. Late that night, the landlord locked the door from the outside. The next day, March 4, a group of police officers broke in. As soon as they entered, they pressed Mr. Ma Wanli and Mr. Li Xupeng to the ground. Mr. Li Xupeng called out loudly, "Falun Dafa is Good." Mr. Bai Shaohua called out loudly, "Beating is forbidden." Police confiscated four laptops and five or six cell phones, and also took Mr. Ma Wanli and Mr. Li Xupeng away. (Later it was learned that they were held in the Qinghe Detention Center of Haidian District in Beijing City.) They locked Mr. Bai Shaohua, his mother, and his five-year old daughter in their apartment.

From March 3 to 6, six to ten police officers at a time monitored Mr. Bai's place.

At around 6:00 p.m. on March 6, two people from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region came to take Mr. Bai Shaohua to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. At that time, Mr. Bai Shaohua was still quite weak and he could not walk. After Mr. Bai was taken away, all of the police officers left. The landlord told Mr. Bai's mother to move out in three days.

On March 11, Mr. Bai Shaohua's mother and his five-year-old daughter left the apartment and were forced to wander about. On March 23, the 610 Office of Xinjiang Autonomous Region put Mr. Bai Shaohua on the train to Beijing City. The three of them are now wandering about to avoid arrest. Mr. Bai Shaohua's is even weaker physically and he cannot walk.

17. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Practitioner Mr. Chen Xirui Sentenced to Forced Labor

Practitioner Mr. Chen Xirui from Chengdu City was distributing truth-clarification materials near the Hejiangting District of Chengdu City on December 19, 2005. He was reported and then arrested by police from the Shuijingfang Police Station of Chengdu City and from the Jinjiang Police Department. He was taken to and held in the Pi County Detention Center of Chengdu City and later sentenced to one year and three months of forced labor.

18. [Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Ms. Sui Yumin from the Babaishang District of Daqing City Arrested

On the afternoon of March 28, 2006, practitioner Ms. Sui Yumin from Babaishang District of Daqing City was arrested. Prior to her arrest, three practitioners--Ms. Zhou Guilan, Mr. Zhang Jingji and Ms. Xuan Guoying--were also arrested.

19. [Shanghai City] Practitioner Ms. Liu Yuzhu Arrested

Practitioner Ms. Liu Yuzhu from the Xinmeigonghecheng Region of the Zhabei District of Shanghai City was arrested and held in February 2006.

20. [Beijing City] Practitioner Ms. Qiu Shuqing from Qinghua University Taken Away by Police from the Fengtai District Police Department

According to recent news, practitioner Ms. Qiu Shuqing from Qinghua University in Beijing City was arrested at her home and taken away by police from the Fengtai District Police Department on February 28, 2006. Her house was ransacked.

21. [Beijing City] Practitioner Ms. Su Yinhua from Beijing City Taken Away by Police from Shiliuzhuang Police Station in the Fengtai District

At about 7:00 p.m. on February 22, 2006, practitioner Ms. Su Yinhua from Beijing was arrested at home and taken away by police from the Shiliuzhuang Police Station in the Fengtai District.

22. [Beijing City] Practitioner Mr. Tian Jiawei Still Held in the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp

Practitioner Mr. Tian Jiawei was arrested in November 2005. Later he was illegally sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor. He is still being held in the Allocation Division of the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp in Beijing City.

23. [Tianjin City] Practitioner Mr. Song Yuxiang from Dongwangzhuang Area of the Wuqing District Held

Practitioner Mr. Song Yuxiang from the Dongwangzhuang Area of the Wuqing District of Tianjin City was held in the Wuqing District Detention Center because he clarified the truth about Falun Gong. He has been held for five days.

24. [Jilin Province] Practitioner Mr. Xin Shirong Released

On March 9, 2006, practitioner Mr. Xinshirong from Taipingzhuang Village, Hongquan Township, Qianguo County, Songyuan City in Jilin Province, was arrested by police officer Xu Biao (male) from Chianguo County National Security Group, police officer Wu Mingli (male), and other police officers from the Hongquan Township Police Station. He was tortured in the Qianguo County Detention Center until his life was endangered. Under the joint efforts of Falun Gong practitioners inside and outside of China, he was successfully rescued around noon on March 29, 2006.

25. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Ms. Jiang Guiyun Left Masanjia Forced Labor Camp

Practitioner Ms. Jiang Guiyun from Dalian City was tortured in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for almost one year, causing her to become very weak. According to a reliable source, Ms. Jiang Guiyun left the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp on March 20, under the strong request of her family members.

26. [Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Mr. Zhang Lijie Released

Practitioner Mr. Zhang Lijie from Daqing City Petroleum Corporation was released on March 27, 2006.

27. [Pingnan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region] The 610 Office Distributing Calendars that Defame Falun Gong to Elementary and Middle Schools

Teachers and some students from the elementary schools and middle schools in Pingnan County in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region received a calendar with contents that defame Falun Gong. The Pingnan County 610 Office was responsible.

28. [Shaanxi Province] All Falun Gong Practitioners Illegally Sentenced to Imprisonment Relocated to Weinan Prison

In January, news was released that all of those Falun Gong practitioners who were illegally sentenced to long-term imprisonment in Shaanxi Province, altogether over 50 practitioners, have been relocated to Weinan's 2nd Prison in Shaanxi Province, where they are held and tortured.