The arrest of Mr. Bai Shaohua and an associate on February 20, 2008 is just the latest in a history of persecution of he and his family.

Examples of increased persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Guan County after an announcement on a Guan County TV station instructing local authorities to increase the persecution and offering rewards for doing so.

Mr. Bai Shaohua Arrested after the Death of His Brother
 

At around 3 p.m. on February 20, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Bai Shaohua and Mr. Yang Hui were arrested after police stopped them to inspect their car. On February 21, Yang Hui's family went to the local police station to find out what had happened to him. They were told that he was sent to the Beijing Huairou District Detention Center. Presumably, Mr. Bai was sent there as well.

In 2005, Mr. Bai Shaohua was tortured to the brink of death

Mr. Bai Shaohua's entire family has been severely persecuted in recent years. His older brother Bai Xiaojun was repeatedly imprisoned at Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp, Changchun City, where he was so brutally abused that he could not care for himself and lost consciousness. He died in July 2003. Mr. Bai's mother, who is over 70, was illegally detained many times because she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong. She ended up losing her sight because of how brutally she was treated in detention. Bai Shaohua was detained repeatedly. While in detention, he was shocked with electric batons and one of his legs was broken during a beating. In 2005, he was in critical condition at Qinghei Detention Center in Beijing. Bai Shaohua's wife, Ms. Ji Lei, was also detained and taken to a forced labor camp. In order to try to force Ms. Ji to divorce Bai Shaohua, the police used torture, extending her detention term, and other shameless methods. Even Bai Shaohua's daughter was arrested when she was just four years old.

Mr. Bai Shaohua is 37. His father was a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and his mother was a music teacher at an elementary school. Bai Shaohua and his brother, Bai Xiaojun, were both good calligraphers and very talented musicians. In 1994, the whole family attended Master Li's lectures in Harbin. After that, they all started practicing Falun Gong and lived in harmony. When the persecution started on July 20, 1999, the Bai family was targeted by the CCP and was severely persecuted.

The older brother, Bai Xiaojun, was a philosophy lecturer at Northeast Normal University and editor of the university newspaper. On July 21, 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was detained at Fengtai Stadium. He witnessed an armed police officer harassing a female practitioner and tried to intervene. The police kicked him and injured his ribs. On July 20, 2000, Bai Xiaojun again went to Beijing to appeal. He was beaten so badly that his legs were broken. After two years in a forced labor camp, he was extremely weak. Refusing to be brainwashed, he died from the inhuman treatment he was subjected to.

Bai Shaohua was detained and brainwashed on several occasions. The police issued a nationwide warrant for his arrest. At one time, a team from Beijing was put together just to find and capture him. On April 14, 2002, Mr. Bai was arrested and taken to the notorious Beijing Legal System Training Center (a brainwashing center), where he was brutally mistreated. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor. While in the No. 7 Team of Beijing's Tuanhe Labor Camp, he was tied to the "Dead Man's Bed" for a long period of time. On October 14, 2004, after appeals by his mother and petitions from friends and family, Bai Shaohua was released after serving his sentence. However, he had to live life on the run thereafter to avoid further harassment.

Before October 1, 2005, Bai Shaohua's whole family was arrested. Mr. Bai went on a hunger strike in protest and was brutally force-fed. His life was in danger and he was hospitalized twice. He was sent home on December 28, 2005. At the time, his wife was being held at the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp in Baoding, Hebei Province. His mother, who was in her 70s, his five-year-old daughter, and Bai Shaohua, who was near death, have a difficult time just getting by.

The persecution of Bai Shaohua's family includes illegal searches of their home, extortion of money, forced relocations, brainwashing, and imprisonment. In the process, they have lived in most parts of China.

Meng Xianghai, Director of Huairou Detention Center in Beijing, 86-10-61697828

Guan County 610 Office Agents Arrest Several Practitioners in Shandong Province

The CCP's Guan County Political & Judiciary Committee, 610 Office, and the local police department have begun a new round of persecution aimed at Falun Gong practitioners. They broadcast an announcement from an upper level authority via Guan County TV Station on the evening of February 20, 2008, that each county, town, and township would be responsible for taking charge of Falun Gong issues in their areas, and all officials would be rewarded or punished based on their success or failure.

About 2 a.m. on February 23, 2008, village officials led the police to Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Shen Lianghua's home and forced open the gate. When no one responded, they climbed over the fence and ransacked the place, but they did not find anybody.

At around 3:30 p.m. on February 25, 2008, police station CCP Director Yao Guangmin (male) and another plainclothes officer stormed into Ms. Jiang Yanli's office located at Guan County Public Road Bureau, took her Falun Gong books, searched her office, then took her into custody at Guan County Police Department. They held her in a detention center.

At 4:30 p.m. on February 28, 2008, several officers intruded into practitioner Ms. Li Xiujin's home and arrested her and her son, Her son is a non-practitioner and tried to stop the police from arresting his mother.

On the evening of March 4, 2008, more than a dozen officers from Guan County Police Department surrounded practitioner Mr. Shen Lianghua's home located in Shenxiaotun Village. They tricked him into opening the door, arrested him, and detained him in a detention center. They have not allowed his family to visit him.

On the evening of March 8, 2008, the police arrested practitioners Mr. and Mrs. Xiaofeng (surnames unknown) from their home in Fanzhuang Village. They detained the couple and inhumanly tortured them.

On the evening of March 9, 2008, officers from Guan County 610 Office and Police Department stormed into practitioner Mr. Guo Lianlou's home in Sanlizhuang Village, but Mr. Guo escaped. These officers then took his teenage daughter into custody, traumatizing her.