(Clearwisdom.net)

On November 21, 2002, the Harbin Railway Transportation Court sentenced Dafa practitioners Mr. Niu Jiahui and Mr. Zhao Kai from the Harbin Railway Bureau, South Division, to five and three years of imprisonment, respectively. Mr. Jiao Xuguang from the Southern Harbin Railway Station was sentenced to three years imprisonment. The "crime" was that the practitioners had rented a place to print and distribute Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials.

According to some insiders, a section chief from the Harbin Railway Police Department in charge of persecuting Falun Gong has received his karmic retribution. He is suffering from stomach cancer.

On October 23, 2002, under instructions from authorities of Guye District's "610 Office," [An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] policemen from the Linxi Police Station under Guye District's Police Precinct pried open Dafa practitioner Ms. Tang Chunfang's burglar-proof door and illegally took her away. Tang Chunfang was sent to a forced labor camp because she insisted on practicing Dafa and was held at Tangshan City's Kaiping Women's Forced Labor Camp. There she suffered all kinds of excruciating tortures. She was sent back home when she became extremely weak. On October 23, Tang Chunfang was not feeling well and lying in bed, unable to move. She had lost consciousness by the time the policemen pried her door open. In spite of her condition, the policemen still carried her into the police vehicle. They even seized 7,000 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income in urban areas of China, in rural areas it is 200], which was all of her savings after losing her job. Ms. Tang was released after staging a hunger strike to protest the vicious persecution, but the lawless personnel assigned somebody to live in her home to monitor her whereabouts around the clock.

Six practitioners from the Shuangyashan District, including Mr. Sun Fengjie and Mr. Hu Guangming, were arrested.

45-year-old Dafa practitioner Ms. Lin Guizhi and 50-year-old Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Xiuhua were recently arrested. During the time when the 16^th Party Congress was held, policemen in Quancheng Town rampantly arrested Dafa practitioners, tapping the practitioners' telephones and staking out some locations. Lin Guizhi and Wang Xiuhua were arrested after their phones were tapped. At the detention center, both of them completely denied the old forces' arrangements and resisted all persecution, orders and instructions. Their determination to cultivation in Dafa is rock-solid. They refused to sign or write the so-called "Three Statements" (Note: they are documents coerced under extreme pressure, torture and brainwashing, designed by the authorities as part of the brainwashing. The statements consist of a letter of repentance, a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, and a list containing names and addresses of all family, friends and acquaintances of the detainee who practices Falun Gong. The notorious "610 Office" concocted this system). They have been detained over a month so far. The police prohibited their family members from visiting them and blocked the news of their arrest.

At the end of November, Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhou Ping, Ms. Shao Daicui, Ms. Lai Jinlan, Ms. Cai Yuhua, and Ms. Lu Keqing were secretly sentenced at Dongbao District Court in Jingmen City, Hubei Province, after five months detention in the No.1 Detention Center.

At the beginning of December, Ms. Long Jinmei, who remained unwavering in her belief after a brainwashing class in October, was sent to another Hubei Province brainwashing class.

Around December 10, practitioner Hu Jinsong was arrested from home, and his computer was taken away. He is now illegally detained at Dongbao Detention Center.

Before the 16^th Party Congress, practitioner Li Shugen and his 12-year-old daughter were arrested. His daughter was released and taken in by Mr. Li's sister. Li Shugen's whereabouts are unknown. Three members of Li's family are practitioners. After the persecution, they were forced to leave home and go from place to place, but they are determined in doing what they should during the Fa-rectification process. In April, Mr. Li's wife was arrested when she was making truth-clarification materials and the police took away their copier, Dafa books and materials. His wife's whereabouts are unknown.

On the same day, practitioner Meng Xiangyu and her 2-year-old daughter were arrested. After the 16^th Party Congress, the police sent Ms. Meng to her father's house because he is a retired policeman.

On November 6, 2002, policemen from Jinzhou City's Taihe Police Precinct arrested over 40-year-old Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Limei, a teacher in the Nu'erhe Spinning Mill's Primary School in Jinzhou City, at her workplace. Afterwards, she was detained at Jinzhou City's No.1 Detention Center. On the morning of December 13, Taihe District Court authorities illegally tried her in secret. The trial concluded hastily without rendering a decision. The lawless officials said the decision would be rendered ten days later. Li Lihui was the chief justice at the trial.

Recently, the authorities in the Weihai Area of Shandong Province have relentlessly persecuted Dafa practitioners. They sent those Dafa practitioners whom they thought of as "steadfast" to a forced labor camp in western Shandong Province, where they forced Dafa practitioners to watch brainwashing videos and threatened them with torture. After one month, these practitioners were released, but every week they had to call and report to the authorities in Zibo City.

One day in the middle of October 2002, two government agents posing as tourists went to a restaurant in Pianyan Town, Beibei District, Chongqin City, where Dafa practitioner Zhao Zaibi stayed. Zhao Zaibi clarified the truth to them and gave them truth-clarifying materials. On October 14, policemen from Chongqing City arrested Zhao Zaibi as a result of this encounter. Zhao's current whereabouts are unknown.

December 15, 2002