About ten Donggang Falun Dafa practitioners, including Liu Mei, Zhu Changming, Zhang Wei, Guo Yunlan and Liu Mei's brother, as well as others were arrested in their homes at night. Their homes were searched and some of their belongings were confiscated. Liu Mei and her husband Zhu Changming have been illegally sentenced to 13 years in jail. Liu Mei is currently being detained in the Dandong Detention Center. She has been on a hunger strike for nearly four months, protesting against the illegal detention. Her life is in great peril. Zhang Wei's husband is not a practitioner; however, he was illegally arrested for resisting the evil's persecution of his wife. They have three young children who have been left at home. Zhang Wei's sister left her home and became homeless in order to escape from the evil's persecution.

We appeal to international organizations: stop the crimes of Jiang's regime!

Within the past two weeks, police in Harbin City have illegally arrested at least 30 Falun Dafa practitioners. According to internal sources, the authorities have reorganized and replaced local policemen for fear that they won't make efforts to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners when they get to know the truth about Falun Dafa. Harbin practitioners, please keep telling the truth about Dafa to the policemen who have been deceived by the lies. Make it a priority to send forth righteous thoughts, and pay attention to your safety at the same time.

Unlawful officers such as Zhao Yuanheng and Zhao Qingyuan as well as others in the Nongan Petroleum Plant have been assisting the "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] in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners.

In early May of 2001, Zhang Shuli and Wang Liqin went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. They were illegally arrested and escorted back. After they were released from detention, the plant wouldn't allow them to work. Currently, they still don't have jobs, and have no income to cover their living expenses.

In June 2002, local police went to the plant, asking for three Falun Dafa practitioners' photos, fingerprints and addresses. The three practitioners refused to provide the information. After a week, Mi Guohui, director of the Security Section of the plant, together with a group of policemen, arrested a practitioner while he was working. They carried him to a police car and took him away. He was released after they forcibly took his photo and his fingerprints.

On July 10, 2002, a practitioner went to see another practitioner in another work area. Liu Yuanxue, the vice president of the plant, fired the practitioners using the fabricated charge of "colluding with other practitioners". The practitioners got back their jobs after over 20 days; however, over 400 Yuan (500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China) was deducted from their salaries and bonuses. Later on, Liu Yuanxue tried to force practitioners in the plant to sign "five statements" (statements where the signer has given up practicing Falun Dafa), saying that it was on the orders from higher authorities. The practitioners there resolutely resisted the evil and Liu's plan failed.

The above is only a small part of what the petroleum plant has done to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. Here I will solemnly remind those who persecute Falun Dafa practitioners: Wake up! Don't damage your eternal future for temporary personal interest. Remember, sooner or later, good will be rewarded with good and evil will meet with evil returns.

Tianjin practitioner, Lu Junmin, was an assistant at the Falun Gong practice sites in the southern part of the Tainjin Commerce Institute. She is a gynecologist working in a hospital in the Hongjiao Area of Tianjin City. On May 8, 2002, she was illegally arrested and then detained in the Hongqiao Police Station for over 50 days. She lost about 15 pounds in weight during detention. Later, she was illegally sentenced to one and a half years in a forced labor camp. She is currently being detained in the Dagangbanqiao Forced Labor Camp in Tainjin City. Another practitioner, called "Aunt Zhao" by fellow practitioners, was detained with her. They were arrested because another practitioner who was unable to bear the evil's torture turned them in. We hope that Tianjin practitioners send forth righteous thoughts at 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. every day. This will help practitioners being detained to walk out of detention sooner.

Since April of this year, Xincheng City in Huludao Island of Liaoning Province has been holding brainwashing classes. Every time, about 20 Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested. Their family members were forced to pay 3,000 Yuan as a deposit. Those who refused to accept the brainwashing had their deposit confiscated and they were sent to a forced labor camp. Recently, the police in Xincheng City have started arresting Falun Dafa practitioners again. In the Donghua Factory alone, 12 practitioners including Liu Yujie (female), Wang Chun, Shang Jinru (female, over 50 years old), Li Xiangzhen, Ma Yufen, Lan Jinfang and He Jinfeng have been arrested. Many families have been broken up, many children have lost their mothers, and many husbands have lost their wives. Many students have lost their teachers, and many work units have lost key staff members. This is a severe interference to productivity, teaching and family life. The state terrorist organization known as the "610 Office" has seriously disturbed the social order and become a public bane to people's lives.

The "610 Office" in Mudanjiang City of Heilongjiang Province held a secret conference in the mountains in order to help the head of the evil in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners and deceiving people around the world. With wisdom, Falun Dafa practitioners found out the time and location of the secret conference. Before the conference started, they painted lots of bright red phrases announcing, "Falun Dafa is good!" along both sides of the highways towards the mountains. They also painted attractive phrases to awaken people in nearby villages, towns, scenic spots, and detention centers. Practitioners have even painted on the steep cliffs. (With access to all normal means of communication such as newspapers, magazines, TV and radio denied to them, Falun Gong practitioners have resorted to many creative and sometimes unusual methods for clarifying the true facts about the persecution of Falun Gong to the Chinese people). Yellow Falun Dafa banners glittering on the tops of tall trees became a beautiful scene at the tourist resorts. Practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts together at the same time. It greatly suffocated the evil, and meanwhile, brought the truth of Falun Dafa to the simple and honest people in the mountains.

Also, practitioners in Mudanjiang City will constantly send forth righteous thoughts together during the conference to eliminate the evil in other dimensions controlling the "610 Office" and all vicious elements trying to damage the Fa-rectification.

On August 12, four practitioners were arrested. Three of them were arrested in their home. The police knocked at their door abruptly. Since nobody opened the door, the police began to pry it open with a hammer and an iron crowbar. Ten minutes later, the door was pried open and the police arrested the three practitioners, beating and abusing them when they resisted the illegal detention. The other practitioner was taken away while he was conducting business in a department store.

On the same day, the police sent the four practitioners to a detention center. The practitioners went on a hunger and water strike, protesting against the persecution. The police then brutally force-fed them. On August 19, two female practitioners were secretly sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. One female practitioner was sent to the hospital and a male practitioner was released unconditionally.

Since June, many practitioners from Handan City have been captured. Some practitioners' whereabouts are still unknown. On August 30, over 20 practitioners were rounded up while having an experience sharing conference. The details are still being looked into.

Before 7.20 (July 20, 1999 is the date that Falun Gong was outlawed in China), police reregistered all Falun Dafa practitioners, asked them for their photos and coerced them into writing a so-called "guarantee statement" [A statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners].

Recently, policemen and security guards in Handan City have been frequently patrolling. Plainclothes policemen can be seen everywhere, watching over the residential areas of the practitioners whose names have been recorded. Especially at night, policemen patrol the city on motorcycles. Whenever they find any Falun Dafa truth-clarifying flyers in a particular residential area, that area quickly gets infested with plainclothes and patrol policemen.

Unlawful people in a certain large-scale iron and steel corporation in Northeast China spare no efforts in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. The main means they have employed include deceiving, arresting, threatening, coercing, and laying off. Once, in a discussion meeting, the director in charge of organizational work in the corporation (male) dressed himself up as a woman and said to a practitioner, "If you can pass this test (the test of lust) of mine, you don't have to go to the transformation class." This man's appearance and actions left people speechless.

Wang Lijun, the director of the Public Security Bureau in Tielin City, Wang Xinli, vice director, Sun Lizhong, director of the Politics & Security Section of the Bureau, Li Weimin, vice director of the Public Security Bureau in Tielin County, Yun Ping, director of the Politics & Security Section of the Bureau in Tielin County as well as others frantically arrest Falun Dafa practitioners. They impose fines on practitioners, detain them, and send them to forced labor camps or jail. Take Caichun Township of Tielin County as an example. Falun Dafa practitioners who were illegally arrested in 1999 had 70,000 Yuan [equal to 14 years average income of a common worker in China] extorted from each of them; those who were illegally arrested in 2002 had at least 63,000 Yuan extorted from each of them; and those who practiced at home had 20,000 Yuan from each of them. Because of this, many practitioners' families were broken up. Wang Pin, director of the Public Security Bureau in Tielin County, and Li Weimin, vice director, said, "We put aside murder cases and focus on arresting Falun Gong. We're not afraid of retribution."

Recently, led by Li Weimin and Yun Ping, police have started to arrest practitioners every so often. Whoever has practiced Falun Gong before has been detained, forced to write the so-called "three statements" (documents coerced under extreme pressure, torture and brainwashing, designed by the Chinese authority to ensure that detained Falun Gong practitioners be appropriately brain-washed), and forced to pay 5,000 to 7,000 Yuan, all at the same time. Some practitioners have been arrested and fined several times. Now, whenever people see policemen arrest Falun Dafa practitioners, they say, "The Public Security Bureau must need more money again."