Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cao Dong is one of the practitioners that met with the European Parliament Vice-President to expose the persecution on May 21, 2006. He is now suffering brutal persecution by the Chinese Communist Party while in jail and trying to request his wife to hire a lawyer for him. The CCP is trying to stop this from happening and trying to prevent him from contacting international media through intimidating his wife.

On December 27, 2007, Ms. Yang Xiaojing went to pay rent to the Zhaojialou Neighborhood Administration. Policeman Liu Tao from the Jianguomen Station and several plainclothes police officers followed her home and said that she needed to go to the police station with them. Ms. Yang refused, but they forcibly dragged her downstairs, shoved her into their vehicle, took her to a small hotel located in the Liuliqiao area in Beijing, and then threatened and interrogated her.

Chief Liu of Dongcheng District Police Department told her that he knew about Mr. Cao Dong. He shouted at her, "I have dealt with Falun Gong for more than ten years, and never received any karmic retribution or had lightning strike me!" They asked if Ms. Yang was hiring a lawyer to defend Mr. Cao and threatened her not to do so. They had no excuse to hold her further and released her in the morning. However, on that same night, policeman Liu Tao led a group of State Security agents to ransack her home. This was the second time she was severely harassed after starting to look for a lawyer to represent her husband. In September 2007, police ransacked her home under a supposed tip about her hiding a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, but came up empty.

At the end of 2007, Ms. Yang Xiaojing was just released from detention, but she could not go home. She was running back and forth in the cold winter, trying to rescue her husband from illegal detention. After the new year, she could not go home once again because Liu Tao took away her key, and the State Security agents were watching her closely. Under tremendous pressure, she was forced to leave home.

The European Parliament is calling to rescue Mr. Cao Dong, although the Chinese government says that his arrest has nothing to do with his meeting with European Parliament Vice-President Edward McMillan-Scott. Chinese officials say that Mr. Cao had an "attitude problem."

On October 18, 2007, when Falun Gong practitioner Zhu Guilin, from Shimen County, Changde City, Hunan Province was going downstairs in her home, He Liangping, Chen Guanyun and other officials from the 610 Office, and Xiao Kebing from the local Comprehensive Administration Office, who had been waiting downstairs, grabbed her and dragged her down. Zhu Guilin's clothes were torn and her upper body was exposed. Zhu Guilin shouted that officials were arresting an innocent person. A number of bystanders witnessed the illegal arrest, and many of them denounced the officials' conduct.

In spite of sharp criticism from the bystanders and the protest of her family, these people forcibly took Zhu Guilin to Changde City Brainwashing Center. Zhu Guilin started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. A woman whose last name was Yi led others to force-feed her. During the force-feeding, she ordered the guards to scratch Zhu Guilin's face really hard, causing swelling and injury to her face.

Ms. Zhu Guilin has been illegally jailed several times for persisting in her practice of Falun Gong. In 2001, she was persecuted by being detained in the mental ward of the People's Hospital by the local 610 Office, and forcibly injected with drugs that damage the central nervous system. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Zhu was detained in the Baimalong Women's Labor Camp of Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. Because of long-term torture during the period she was detained in the labor camp, Zhu Guilin's blood pressure dropped as low as 50, and her weight went down to 77 lbs. She was extremely weak and she passed out several times while walking.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/1/4/169583.html

During the past six months, several Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested in Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province.

On July 3, Falun Gong practitioner Xue Lijun, a doctor at Mian County Gynecology Hospital, was reported to the police and arrested by the National Security Group of Mian County Police Station.

On September 9, Falun Gong practitioners Wang Miao and Liu Cuiying were arrested while clarifying the facts about Falun Gong. The police later arrested Falun Gong practitioners Xie Hongxia and Cui Xiaomei. The police ransacked their homes, illegally detained them and extorted two thousand yuan from them.

On September 10, policeman Du Jiucheng and three other people illegally intruded into Falun Gong practitioner Liao Jun's home. (Liao Jun was an employee of Huayan Instrument Company in Nanzheng County.) The police said someone had anonymously reported her. They ransacked her home and sent her to the detention center of Nanzheng County.

In mid-September someone reported Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Xia (in her forties), an official of the Archive Bureau, for clarifying the facts. She was secretly arrested by the police of Mian County police station. Xia was hung by handcuffs and beaten by the police day after day. Later she was illegally detained at Fengjinglu Detention Center in Hantai District.

On November 12, 72 years old Wang Yunying (who is a retired employee of the Water and Electricity Bureau of Zhanzhong City), 69 years old Wang Suyun (a retired teacher in Chenggu County) and 56 years old Jin Caihua (a retired employee of the Second Factory) were reported by Zhang Dongfeng, the person in charge of Nansha River Reservoir, while the three practitioners were clarifying the facts. They were arrested by the police and detained in Chengu County Detention Center. Zhang received karmic retribution, suffering from heart disease symptoms.

On November 23, Du Shuxin (in her sixties) was reported to the police while distributing truth-clarifying VCDs in Hanzhong City. The leader of the National Security Group of Hantai District, Li Youzhi, along with other police officers, arrested Du and illegally ransacked her home. Du is currently detained at the Fengjinglu Detention Center in Hantai District. She is being persecuted.

On November 25, Chen Deben (in his sixties) from Daijiaba Town, Ningqiang County, was arrested at home by the National Security Section of Ningqiang County Police Department.

On October 11, right before the Chinese Communist Party's 17^th Congress opened, the 610 Office of the Shaanxi Provincial Communist Party sent five to six people, including 610 Office agent Wei Qiming and the number one collaborator in Shaanxi Province, Chen Bin, to arrest Falun Gong practitioners. They harassed and forced various district offices and communities in Hanzhong City to help them illegally arrest practitioners. They arrested nine practitioners and sent them to a brainwashing center in the boarding house of Changkong Instrument Company in Dahekan Town, Nanzheng County. The practitioners were forced to endure brainwashing sessions for as long as two weeks.

At around 1:00 p.m. on December 29, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Xu Chunyan and Zheng Cuiping were reported to the police while clarifying the facts in Zhao Village of Hanzhong City. Xu and Zheng were arrested and detained at Fengjinglu Detention Center of Hantai District. Policeman Ma Ping'an and other officers from the National Security Section of Hantai District later illegally ransacked their home. Xu Chunyan is 43 years old and works for a public bus company in Hanzhong City. Ms. Zheng Cuiping is 63 years old and works for a local product company in Hantai District.