Due to the persecution, Mr. Lei Bifu had been forced to flee home seven years prior. On December 12, 2008, the police found him in a market. They shot him with a tranquilizer gun and beat him with electric baton before the arrest.

Ms. Liu Xiaojun was arrested on December 18, 2008 while she was working. On January 1, 2009, she was sent to a forced labor camp. She had been arrested and brainwashed on different occasions by CCP since July 20, 1999, because of her belief in Falun Gong.

Mr. Lei Bifu Arrested after Suffering Seven Years of Persecution

Mr. Lei Bifu, a Falun Gong practitioner in Linjiang Township, Chongqing City, was arrested on December 12, 2008, after being persecuted for the past seven years.

Mr. Lei Bifu was a businessman. He was injured during a business dispute, which left him disabled. After he began practicing Falun Gong in November 1998, he recovered. Not long after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, Mr. Lei and his family began to be harassed by local police.

In June 2001, Kai County police officers went to Mr. Lei Bifu's home to arrest him for practicing Falun Gong. Fortunately, Mr. Lei was out. Even without a search warrant, the police forced their way in and searched Mr. Lei's home, seizing his television, DVD player, recorder, Falun Gong books, and other personal property. After that incident, Mr. Lei had to flee his home to avoid being illegally arrested, but local police continued harassing his family members at home.

One day in October 2003, before dawn, Chen Zhangshong, chief of the Linjiang Township Police Station, led a dozen officers to surround Mr. Lei's house. Before the family could even answer the door, the officers pried it open with a crow bar. They threatened that if the family didn't hand over Mr. Lei, they would rip off the door, and then search the house at any time.

In December 2004, the police detained Mr. Lei's wife in the police station for 15 days.

In October 2008, Mr. Lei returned home after he had been forced to flee home seven years prior. Only two months later, at around 9:00 a.m. on December 12, 2008, Liu Xuefeng, deputy chief of Linjiang Town Police Station, led five officers to arrest Mr. Lei at the farmers' market. Once they found Mr. Lei, they shot him with a tranquilizer gun, forced him down to the ground, and beat him with electric batons. They arrested both Mr. Lei and his wife, and beat them all the way to the police station. The couple sustained severe injures. At the same time, eight officers searched Mr. Lei's house. Mr. Lei's wife was released on the second day. Mr. Lei has been detained at Kai County Detention Center since the arrest.

Ms. Liu Xiaojun from Tangshan City, Hebei Province Sent to Labor Camp

On January 1, 2009, Ms. Liu Xiaojun, a Falun Gong practitioner who worked at a high-voltage porcelain fixtures company in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, was transferred to Kaiping Labor Camp. On December 18, 2008, while Ms. Liu was working, Yang Zhiyong, the head of the 610 Office in her company, called her to go to the security department. Later, she was taken away by Tangshan City Police Department, and was illegally detained in Changning Detention Center.

At about 7:15 p.m. on December 18, 2008, thirteen people from the city police department, the local police station and the "610 Office," intruded into Ms. Liu's home. They opened the door with a key without first knocking, even though someone was at home. Ms. Liu's son, Mr. Liu Bojing, asked them to show their IDs. They showed him a so called "search warrant" which had nothing on it and looked damaged. Mr. Liu warned them that what they were doing was illegal. They threatened to have him taken away. They ransacked the house and confiscated some Falun Gong books, truth-clarification materials, and CDs. After the ransacking, they forced Mr. Liu to sign the 'search warrant.'

When Ms. Liu was detained in Changning Detention Center, Mr. Liu asked the police twice if he could see his mother. He was only met with refusal.

Since July 20, 1999, because of her belief in Falun Gong, Ms. Liu has been arrested and detained in a detention center and at Textile University in Tangshan City, where she was further persecuted and subjected to brainwashing. Due to the tremendous pressure, her husband divorced her. Since then, she has lived with her son. After Ms. Liu was arrested, her son was forced to drop out of school. He has no one to take care of him.