Mr. Lu Qiqi, 46-years-old, is a state registered engineer. He and his family have suffered repeated persecution. Currently both he and his wife are detained.

Mr. Pan Xujun in Critical Condition after Seven Years in Prison

Pei County 610 Office agents illegally arrested Mr. Pan Xujun, an outstanding teacher, in September 2002. He worked at the Pei County No. 1 Middle School in Jiangsu Province and was arrested for his belief in practicing Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. The Pei County Court sentenced him to nine years in prison in 2003, despite lack of evidence of any wrongdoing. Mr. Pan has been held at Hongzehu Prison in Jiangsu Province for more than seven years, where he has been savagely tortured. His life is in danger.

Falun Gong practitioner Pan Xujun

Pan Xujun's family went to the prison and requested his release, but prison officials told them, "If he ends his hunger strike and gives up Falun Gong, we'll let him go home right away." His family has nowhere to turn, because the court does not want to have anything to do with them.

Freedom of belief and freedom of speech are basic rights protected under China's constitution. The communist regime has signed international human rights pacts that also guarantee such rights. We want to shed light on Pan Xujun's ordeal in the hopes that the people of the world will join together to help end this ruthless persecution.

Pan Xujun is 43 years old. As soon as he began practicing Falun Gong he was cured of numerous illnesses. He taught Falun Gong to his students, and their grades quickly improved. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, the police arrested Pan Xujun in December 2000 and held him in a custody center and a brainwashing center for one year. His school was forced to pay money to the 610 Office. Pan Xujun's salary was withheld.

Mr. Pan Xujun and practitioners Wang Xinchun and Cao Houcun left the brainwashing center on December 14, 2001 and lived a homeless life in order to avoid being arrested again. 610 Office head Chen Yong led several police officers and arrested the three practitioners and sentenced them to long prison terms.

At Hongzehu Prison, Pan Xujun refused to renounce his belief. The guards instructed inmates to verbally and physically abuse him. They poured cold water on him in the winter. He refused to the wear prison uniform, in protest of his illegal detention. They poured fresh paint on him. The inmates also tried to suffocate Mr. Pan. Between 2005 and 2007 the guards regularly and violently abused Dafa practitioners through corporal punishment, savage attacks, dragging the practitioners on the floor and "strict control;" other methods were also used. Hu Juqiu, political instructor of Ward 1, often told inmates Bi Dongsheng and Jia Lianggui to hit Pan Xujun with broomsticks and wooden boards; Pan Xujun's hands swelled like balloons due to the constant abuse.

Pan Xujun has sustained severe mental and physical trauma over the past seven years. He has been on a protest hunger strike for more than 70 days and is extremely frail. 

The Persecution of Mr. Lu Qiqi and his Family

On March 31, 2009, while Ms. Li Shihong was entering her home at Unit 401, Building 41 of the Dijiao Residential area in Jiangan District, Wuhan City, a group of people suddenly appeared and took her away. Two hours earlier, Ms. Song, Ms. Li's mother was also illegally arrested. Three months prior, Mr. Lu Qiqi, Ms. Li's husband was illegally arrested in Shenzhen City.

The couple, Mr. Lu Qiqi and Ms. Li Shihong

The couple's only son, Lu Hai

Lu Hai, the couple's only son, is 12 years old. He is in junior high school. On March 31, 2009, after Ms. Li was taken away, the perpetrators from the 1st Security Section of Jiangan District Police Branch went to Lu Hai's class. Despite the fact that he was in the middle of a mid-term exam, they forced the teacher to bring him to the office, and pressured him to tell them who had been in contact with his mother and what they did. Lu Hai could not take the pressure anymore and used the excuse of needing to use the bathroom to call his aunt to pick him up. Due to ten years of unrelenting persecution, Lu Hai has suffered severe mental trauma.

Mr. Lu Qiqi, 46-years-old, is the state registered engineer. As the main technical person in charge, Lu Qiqi designed many local buildings. He is a person with a high moral standard. His boss praised him as follows: "Other folks come here to make money from the company; Mr. Lu is here to make money for the company." Mr. Lu started practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and follows the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He always likes to help others. However, since July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong. Ever since then, Mr. Lu has been repeatedly jailed and tortured.

Between 2000 and 2002, Mr. Lu has been taken by the authorities to the Sanatorium of the Wuhan City Police Department, the Wuhan City Second Detention Center, and the brainwashing center of Jianghan District in Wuhan City. For awhile, nobody knew his whereabouts.

During the first half of 2004, Mr. Lu was missing. In September, the family received an anonymous call and learned that Mr. Lu was jailed in Shayang City, Hubei Province. He was then transferred to the brainwashing center in Jianghan District of Wuhan for one year. In October 2005, Mr. Lu was sent to Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City.

In December 2007, Mr. Lu was arrested again, while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarification materials in Shenzhen City. He was sentenced to four years in prison by the Baoan District Court in Shenzhen.

Ms. Li Shihong, 41 years old, had several jobs: She worked in a court, at a school, and also owned her own business. In 1997, after she started practicing Falun Gong, her heart disease disappeared. She is kind and selfless, and likes to help others without asking for favors in return. In the past ten years, Ms. Li has been determined in the practice of Falun Gong. However, she has suffered ongoing persecution by CCP.

In March 2000, CCP agents arrested Ms. Li and held her for five months. She was illegally detained at the brainwashing center in Huangpo District, Wuhan City. In the brainwashing center, Ms. Li was determined to continue the practice, and she resisted the persecution. The perpetrators beat her brutally, and locked her in solitary confinement. Her face was injured from the beating.

At the end of 2000, without any legal documentation, the perpetrators broke in and ransacked Ms. Li's home. She was then taken to Qiaokou District Brainwashing Center in Wuhan City. Later, Li Shihong was sent to an undisclosed forced labor camp for one year. During that period of time, her husband Mr. Lu was taken away, and later was forced to stay away from home. Their young child had to stay with his grandmother.

During the first half of 2002, Ms. Li went to court to support a fellow practitioner on trial. She was arrested by personnel waiting outside of the court and sent to Baibuting Brainwashing Center. At this point, Ms. Li was brutally beaten to the point that she was near death. Her family took her home from the hospital.

On March 31, 2009, Ms. Li Shihong was illegally arrested again, and is currently detained at the 1st Detention Center of Wuhan City.

Grandma Ms. Song, Ms. Li's mother, is nearly 70 years old. She was also arrested. On March 31, 2009, uniformed and plainclothes officers from Jiangan District Domestic Security Division and Danshuichi Police Station drove two police cars to Ms. Li's residential building to conduct an illegal surveillance. At about 1:00 pm, Ms. Song came downstairs. The police rushed up, covered her mouth, and took her to Danshuichi Police Station. They took the keys from Ms. Song's pocket, and ransacked Ms. Li's home without any legal documentation. They took away the family's personal belongings including a notebook computer, a printer, and an MP4. They also stole 1,500 yuan cash and left a mess behind. Later, they hid near the house and arrested Ms. Li when she returned home.

After being threatened, Ms. Song was released. Currently, she and her grandson Lu Hai live together with no source of income.