(Clearwisdom.net)

Japanese Falun Dafa Association wrote to Japan's Foreign Minister, calling on him to urge the Chinese authorities to release Ms. Yoko Kaneko during his visit to China. Ms. Yoko Kaneko is married to a Japanese businessman, Mr. Atsushi Kaneko. She was wrongfully sentenced to one and a half years in a forced labor re-education camp by the Jiang government for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in Beijing last May.

Records of dwarves in ancient Chinese books: Records of dwarves can be found in many ancient Chinese books including "Shanhai Sutra -- The Great Desolate East Sutra," "Shanhai Sutra -- Desolate South Sutra," "Shanhai Sutra -- Overseas South Sutra," "Records of Searching for Divine Beings," "Liezi," "Records of the Historian," "Dharma Center and Pearl Circles," "Shanhai Sutra -- The New Explanation Volume of the Hai Sutra," "Record of Ceasing Furrowing in the South Village," and "The New Neat Harmony." Those sufficiently substantiated that dwarves had lived on the earth. Now these dwarves have disappeared, probably because they were only a few inches tall and therefore not suited to live on the earth, so they were then gradually weeded out.

The Central Daily Paper reported on September 9: Typhoon Xinleke landed in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province last night. It directly assailed the entire Wenzhou City with a wind force reaching level 12. Later it continued to move toward the west and entered Fujian Province. Because it is the period of flood tide, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are having violent storms and the situation is very serious. According to preliminary statistics, the typhoon has caused 23 deaths and five people are missing in the Wenzhou and Taizhou areas. In addition, in the Cangnan area, more than three thousand houses collapsed, amounting to a loss of nearly 1 billion Yuan.

Since July 20, 1999, I have been to Beijing twice to validate Dafa and was illegally detained. I received physical punishment, brutal torture and force-feedings. Later I was illegally sentenced to three years in prison. In prison, there are countless kinds of brutal tortures including being forced to stand up, deprivation of sleep, not being allowed to use the toilet, forced brainwashing, intensive labor, torture by inmates, and other cruel tortures.

Feng Guoxin is from Dafeng Village, Muchun Town, Weifang City, Shandong Province. After facing brutal torture numerous times, detentions, forced brainwashing, receiving huge amounts of fines and under his wife's pressure, he was forced to be brainwashed and gave up the practice of Falun Gong. Later in May of 2001, Feng Guoxin suffered from schizophrenia. On May 3 (of the lunar calendar), he killed his wife and three children. When asked whether his act of killing was due to the practice of Falun Gong, he said that he stopped practicing Falun Gong a long time ago after the torture and forced brainwashing.